remove_originals
When remove_originals
is set to
1, makethumbs will remove
the original image if it has created
reduced or
large images.
This option is most often used when you have a small amount
of disk space for your web pages. It is usually activated with
the --remove-originals
command line option. If
you have both reduced images and large images in addition to the
original images, remove_originals
will remove
the original images and promote the large
images to the original images. If you run
makethumbs again with the same option in the same
directory, the current-original images (which are really the large
images that makethumbs created previously) are
removed and the reduced images are promoted to the original filenames.
Because of the way this command works, it is usually best to use the
command line option instead of the .makethumbsrc
setting. If you set remove_originals
in the
.makethumbsrc file, you're likely to always
end up with the reduced (640x480 by default) images as the only
images available to your useres.
This option can also be useful if you are imprinting attributions/copyrights on to your images via the image_imprinting_text so that you can remove the original images which don't have the text imprinted on them.
remove_originals
is a boolean variable with a valid
setting of either 0 or 1.
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