Disappearing image thumbnails in block?? File manager, block refreshes don't work!
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I have a whee bit of a problem (again...sigh) that I would appreciate some advice on.
I have a block that pulls in images like so in the code...
That's a standard piece of code as found in other image type blocks.
It presents the user with a "Click here to select larger image" message. This is a lighbox zoom type of block so the user has to select the larger image for the zoom box.
No big deal. It's worked well in the past and still works except that this time around all the image thumbnails that show up in that C5 select the image bit of magic are...well...missing.
They were missing from the File Manager too but a refresh there did the trick to bringing them back.
I've refreshed the block in question. Didn't work to bring back the block thumbnail images.
I've cleared the browser cache. No worky.
And I don't use the C5 cache and have it disabled.
Any suggestions as to how I might be able to get the images back again (besides having to reselect each of many images on many pages of the site all over again just to bring the thumbnails back again).
Thanks.
Carlos
I have a block that pulls in images like so in the code...
That's a standard piece of code as found in other image type blocks.
It presents the user with a "Click here to select larger image" message. This is a lighbox zoom type of block so the user has to select the larger image for the zoom box.
No big deal. It's worked well in the past and still works except that this time around all the image thumbnails that show up in that C5 select the image bit of magic are...well...missing.
They were missing from the File Manager too but a refresh there did the trick to bringing them back.
I've refreshed the block in question. Didn't work to bring back the block thumbnail images.
I've cleared the browser cache. No worky.
And I don't use the C5 cache and have it disabled.
Any suggestions as to how I might be able to get the images back again (besides having to reselect each of many images on many pages of the site all over again just to bring the thumbnails back again).
Thanks.
Carlos
I figured it out.
Apparently the File Manager puts thumbnails inside a /files/thumbnails/ directory with the usual confusing numbering system under there.
I have been uploading files directly to the host by looking where C5 puts files under my local copy of the site I am working and FTPing the image I am working on into the same structure on the host. But I have not been uploading thumbnails.
Anyway uploading the entire thumbnail directory structure fixed it.
If I ever do another site using C5 the first thing I am going to do is replace the standard File Manager! May be nice and pointy clickity for some people but it's a royal pain to work with the way it puts files all the over the place in obscure numbered directories.
When you replace a file it doesn't even get rid of the old one! So you end up with multiple copies of images...well...all over the place twice over if you do much replacing LOL.
There is no reason for that (at least not any good one that I can see). Security by obscurity is not real security and a good .htaccess file in one image directory (without all that confusing numbering) would work just as well if not better to protect images.
Oh well...onward to completion of this project.
Thanks.
Carlos