Completely stop hikashop creating folder for imgs

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9 years 7 months ago #196689

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.1

Hi,
I need to completely turn off/stop hikashop from creating folders for images (thumbnails, thumbnail, 0x500, 100x100).
The site is managed by more than one person, because of that some images are loaded using FTP client and others are uploaded via Administrator/hikahsop depending who is managing the site at the moment.

We use the same image for many different products, but because hikashop create and place images in different folders it becomes a pain to locate and add the image path.
I need it to just look for images in one folder, uploads all images to the same folder (do not create sub-folders).

In the configuration/images I have:
Thumbnail = Off
Force images size = No
Image scale mode = Keep Ratio.

What settings should I change to stop it for creating any folder?
If not a setting can you point me on the alternative of a more permanent solution?

Thanks

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9 years 7 months ago #196694

Hi,

HikaShop stores all the images you upload in the media/com_hikashop/upload folder, not in sub folders. And that's where you upload them via FTP.
So there is only one folder. There is no need to look at the sub folders.
The thumbnails sub folders are generated automatically by HikaShop in order to save the thumbnails of your main images that are generated when necessary for the proper display of the images on the HikaShop interface.
You should never select images from these folders in your products/categories but always use the images in the main upload folder. So there should be no pain locating your images as they are all directly in the media/com_hikashop/upload folder.
You can't stop HikaShop from generating the thumbnails. It is necessary so that it can properly display the images to you and your customers in reduced format on the interface.
I can give you a simple modification to the code of HikaShop to stop it from generating the thumbnails, but then you won't see any image anymore for your products/categories on your website and that's not what you want.

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