How to decrease your attachments folder by 50-80%

[Walter]

Just for reference a method where Xenforo itself resizes the picture when a user uploads the pic:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/a-guide-to-xenforo-attachments-photos.2439/

(see paragraph "Important info for photo communities")

 

[AndreaMarucci]

I've made a test with JPEGMINI on an image exported from Photoshop using Save for Web option. Tee original imag was 507.984 and the optimized one 333.090 so I think that that app is worth the price...

 

[Jaxel]

Still looking for an addon that can compress attachments as the user uploads them... and go through all existing attachments and compress them.

 

[Amin Sabet]

Still looking for an addon that can compress attachments as the user uploads them... and go through all existing attachments and compress them.

Here you go: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/goodfornothing-kraken.3987/

Works great!

 

[Amin Sabet]

If you run this on the .data files, you'll get errors on the attachments.

You need to figure a way to update the file size information in the database table for the attachments.

Any idea if the same is true for image proxy .data files?

 

[MattW]

Any idea if the same is true for image proxy .data files?

No idea mate, haven't even tried it on the images which have been through the proxy.

 

[Amin Sabet]

I tried it. Gives errors on the proxy images, I assume because the file size changes. I'll have to wait for @Mr. Goodie2Shoes to work his magic.

 

[Kintaro]

Would an attachments rebuild correct the errors?

have you tried if the rebuild attachments correct those errors?

 

[Marcus]

On your server, within your XF attachments dir ...

find . -iname *.jpg -exec jpegoptim -p {} \;

Does xenforo store information about the filesize in its database? If not, this is the easiest approach.

 

[Amin Sabet]

Does xenforo store information about the filesize in its database? If not, this is the easiest approach.

Yes it does. Doing jpegoptim directly will break them.

See: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/goodfornothing-kraken-paid.91580/page-8#post-908237

 

[swatme]

hi guys

so the .data has been renamed .jpg
and i resize the image into smaller size.
i already uploaded the file back and rename to .data

now whats next step?
i have bd attachement store installed.

will bd attachment store rebuilds the resized image?

thanks

 

[truonglv]

Hey Guys, i am working for compress images which need VPS (not through any third parties). I need some free users to testing it before release to community.

 

[Mouth]

Hey Guys, i am working for compress images which need VPS (not through any third parties). I need some free users to testing it before release to community.

Would be happy to test