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WinniePooh
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10 years 11 months ago #127900 by WinniePooh

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Hello everyone,

I want to reuse the images which I've uploaded with K2. When I browse for an old image, I get only the images which have been uploaded with the normal joomla com_content (folder /images). I know K2 saves the images in the media folder with different sizes. How can I access these images?

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Lefteris
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10 years 11 months ago #127901 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

Hi. You can set the media manager default folder to "media/k2/items" . This can be done in the media manager component options.

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10 years 11 months ago #127902 by WinniePooh

Replied by WinniePooh on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

Thank you for your answer. Is there a way to access the normal /images folder with the /media/k2/items folder together? I've on both folders important images which I need to access.

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Lefteris
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10 years 11 months ago #127903 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

No. Media manager can only work with one root folder. You can set the folder to / but this will make all your site directory structure available to the media manager.

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10 years 11 months ago #127904 by WinniePooh

Replied by WinniePooh on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

The images have file names like "002e8e491b09a55f1bac8b9f7f969c26.jpg". Is there a way to show the normal image name?

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Lefteris
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10 years 11 months ago #127905 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

No, this is how K2 generates the file names. I don't get what you mean by saying "normal filenames" . You can always use the alt attribute to provide the image description.

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10 years 11 months ago #127906 by WinniePooh

Replied by WinniePooh on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

With normal file names I mean the image name which I gave to the image. After uploading it, K2 generates then the image name and I cannot find it, when I'm searching for the image.

I would like to search after images names like "imagename.jpg" instead of "002e8e491b09a55f1bac8b9f7f969c26.jpg".

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Lefteris
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10 years 11 months ago #127907 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

No, unfortunately as i already told you the file names are generated this way.

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10 years 4 months ago - 10 years 4 months ago #134776 by Buldre

Replied by Buldre on topic Re: Reuse uploaded images

Lefteris wrote: Hi. You can set the media manager default folder to "media/k2/items" . This can be done in the media manager component options.

I tested this today, and it turns out that K2 regardless save the picture again for each new article where the photo are used, and although the picture already exists in media / k2 / items. So the solution is useless if the purpose of reuse of images is to save space on the server.

Last edit: 10 years 4 months ago by Buldre.

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