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Provide a way to re-generate thumbnails.

Possibly an option to add to the 'manage' area, but being able to rebuild all of the thumbnails in my gallery would be great. I had some server issues, still have my database and originals, but all of the thumbnails are 404.

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    Tyler WardTyler Ward shared this idea  ·   ·  Admin →

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      • Brian DraveczBrian Dravecz commented  · 

        I am seeing the same issue with the thumbnails 404ing. I uploaded several hundred images to a locally hosted instance of openphoto, and waited about a week, but thumbnails never were created.

      • JmathaiAdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  · 

        @Ben, if it works on the hosted service then it'll work on self installed instances. And vice versa.

        On the hosted side we do build some tools that don't support self installed instances but it's a resource limitation, not a technical one.

        In this specific example of a Dropbox sync, I presume we'd be the first to build it (on the hosted side) so it wouldn't support self installed users. I'd be more than happy if someone beat us to it though :).

      • Ben GlasgowBen Glasgow commented  · 

        @Jmathai That would be an ideal workflow for me. I shoot and import my photos over the course of a few weeks then spend an afternoon editing and curating. I split the work between my workstation and macbook so a backend with desktop sync would make this the perfect set up, if I knew how to call an API using openphoto.me. This is something I could only do if I have it locally hosted, correct?

      • JmathaiAdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  · 

        @Ben We've experimented with a Dropbox sync feature that automatically reflects changes to originals back into your OpenPhoto account (and the associated thumbnails).

        The way this happens is to call the "replace" API which does purge all of the thumbnails.

      • Ben GlasgowBen Glasgow commented  · 

        This would come in handy when editing the original photo on your workstation through dropbox, box, etc. Currently the edits appear only when you choose to download the original. All thumbnails remain unedited.

      • JmathaiAdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  · 

        You can achieve this by calling the transform API with no parameters. There isn't a UI for it yet though.

        POST /photo/:id/transform.json

        Curious why the thumbnails are 404ing though.

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