Theme Images--Mass Delete the Spares?

[McGani]

Here's what my "Images" section looks like on all of my themes when I'm done getting them to look how I want:



All of the images makes my themes WAY too huge, and as you can see, they're mostly duplicates, as I upload from the computer rather than link from a Photobucket or something. It's a feature I'm REALLY excited about, as I hated linking from Photobucket, but it also creates a lot of excess.

I'd really like to know if there is a way to tick the spare images I want to delete, and cut the extra fat off, as it were. The way I'm doing it now is really time consuming and tedious (one at a time).

Does anyone else run into this problem with creating themes, or am I doing something wrong? It's not totally out of the realm of possibility that I could be doing something differently altogether that would prevent this from happening.

And if there isn't a way to bypass this when you upload your own images (instead of linking), is it too late to request checkboxes for mass-deleting spare, duplicated images? That would be SO helpful!

Thanks, guys!

[Tim Camara]

There's no plans for a mass-delete functionality at this time. How did you end up with so many extra copies of every image?

[McGani]

May 1, 2013 7:46:12 GMT -8 Tim Camara said:

There's no plans for a mass-delete functionality at this time. How did you end up with so many extra copies of every image?

As I'm building a theme, I use the "upload" feature for all the cells for which I want a custom image, and I use the same image for a lot of aspects of the forum, and I don't know of another way to do it aside from re-uploading it every time I'm specifying an image for a specific area.


Does that make sense? I'm not the best at explaining myself. xD

EDIT: Just having an auto-fill or drop-down to be able to choose images you've already uploaded as you're creating the theme might be useful. I think I can copy/paste the file path to images I've already uploaded, but that involves a lot of scrolling up and down to find the image I want to use and paste it into another field. But a mass delete function would work just as well, and might be easier to implement.

[Tim Camara]

We actually already have the suggestion in your edit planned for some point in the future. For now, I'm afraid you'll have to get by with either copy/pasting the image URLs or deleting the excess ones once you're done.

[McGani]

May 1, 2013 9:16:22 GMT -8 Tim Camara said:

We actually already have the suggestion in your edit planned for some point in the future. For now, I'm afraid you'll have to get by with either copy/pasting the image URLs or deleting the excess ones once you're done.

Aw, that will be so great! I can't wait for that feature to come along

Until then, I will be fine with deleting the excess! I'll just wait before making new skins and/or premades until then

Thanks!

[blueshead]

McGani.. I deleted all the extras in your blackity black and got a lot of space back. The extras do cut in to our allotted space..