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I have done so at various points in the past. All the images are in a single directory, though, and so uploading and downloading it en masse is a bit problematic, what with four gazillion attachments. Also, there's the issue of knowing which ones have already been compressed so as not to re-compress them.

Ultimately, the right solution is to have the upload mechanism process each photo as its uploaded in order to maximize space. I've been working toward that goal for a while now. In the mean time, I've set the upload quota -- 40mb -- high enough so that most people won't run into it.

it is the International Bureau of Weights and Measures new metric for measuring boorish behavior:

MegaDicks.

Conversion table

1 MegaDick =

.75 Frenchmen
1.25 Drunk Englishman
1.0 American Tourist
.63 Texan
.33 Texan Tourist
.1 Anonymous Internet Poster

I'm guessing the pictures are in a unix directory: list files in size order just keeping the top 40 each time. Run command to compress each file in turn. Sleep for 30 mins. Then just leave it running for ever more. If there are no files then it just sleeps. You could do a similar type of things for where the x or y dimensions of the image are greater than 350 for example. I had a guess at the following code but I've never used the convert command myself.

Does the convert routine preserve aspect ratio?

This is a good and useful script, and I may very well use it for the mass of older uploads. Unfortunately, it doesn't help the person who uploaded the file being reduced, as their quota is tracked separately. They won't get credit for the reduced file size, in other words.

Even though the uploads folder is huge at this point, I'm not running out of space... yet. Just trying to keep it manageable.

The ultimate goal is to reduce each file to an acceptable level as they are uploaded to the system.

JIMC

So Texans are less annoying when they are tourists and also less annoying then the avg American tourist?

I believe you're reversing the intended direction. It only takes .33 Texan Tourists to make 1 MegaDick. By the same equation, one Texan Tourist == 3 MegaDicks.

Or something.

/lived in Texas once, don't shoot the messenger

Also, judging by the conversion table, I'd say it was invented by a drunken Englishman.

Ok, I get it now.... I am bad at math.

And a MegaDick times 3.

Jim seemed to enjoy the jokes.. the as to why... I'll leave to your imaginations

Jim,

I enjoy your comments and sense of humor and if you're considered grumpy for it, then they just don't get it. I guess I can see the world through the same "glasses" as you wear, at times.

Keep up the good work.

I think it does if I read the man page correctly (I believe that's what the ! in the convert code means) but I haven't tried it so I really don't know for sure

I resent that! I am IRISH!




(actually, I am typical American Mutt, I just have an Irish last name)

[quote="jess"] One line:

find . -size +100k \( -name "*jpg" -name -o -name "*.gif" \) -exec convert -resize '350x350!' {} tmp_file \; -exec mv tmp_file {} \;

you might want to throw in a -f if want to make sure it is a regular file, and -prune if you don't want to decend into subdirs.

UNIX: More than one way to fsck yourself

One more trick:

the most useful command in unix is "du -s * | sort -n"

Gives the filenames and sizes for the files under the current directory, smallest to largest.