Gallery Pruning

[kihon]

With GDPR in our face now, I really need a way to mass prune gallery images. I posted in Gallery Improvement topic, but I was the last poster ?

Any plugin or add one that anyone knows of? 

Would like to see mass pruning by:

• date added
• views
• least/most comments

 

 

[Joel R]

Just curious, why would GDPR affect uploading of images?  

It's targeted to advertising and data processing.  

[kihon]

1 minute ago, Joel R said:

Just curious, why would GDPR affect uploading of images?  

It's targeted to advertising and data processing.  

For users who don't want our site to keep images longer than we should. 

Forget GDPR, we have 300k images and need to do some mass pruning.  ? Imagine pruning 100k images 1by1

[Joel R]

You can try to contact this author and see if he's willing to expand it to Gallery

 

[bfarber]

I'm having a hard time understanding how you'd need to prune gallery images by views, or by number of comments, for GDPR compliance.

You could prune individual areas in a roundabout method. Move all images or albums you want to prune to a new category and then delete that category in the AdminCP. This may or may not help, though, based on your description of how you want to perform pruning (e.g. by date).

[kihon]

Hi BFarber,

9 hours ago, bfarber said:

I'm having a hard time understanding how you'd need to prune gallery images by views, or by number of comments, for GDPR compliance.

Our true need to prune our gallery is...we have been online since 2003 and have many uneeded, old and outdated images from members who are no longer around. I would like to remove images from members from "back in the day" .  Many times they come back and ask us to help them remove them.  Yes, I understand that they should do it themselves. But this is their personal data and, even though, they can do it, if we receive a request to mass remove images, we'd like to be able to do.

We would like to simply be able to mass prune images by date added, that's all.

9 hours ago, bfarber said:

You could prune individual areas in a roundabout method. Move all images or albums you want to prune to a new category and then delete that category in the AdminCP. This may or may not help, though, based on your description of how you want to perform pruning (e.g. by date).

We can do this....maybe.  Do you mean move images one by one into the new category?  Or is there a way to MASS move into a new category by publish date or something?  As you can imagine, moving one by one, when you have this many images, would be undeniably arduous.  Let me know if there is a way.

Also, when you delete a category with, let's say, 50,000 images, do the images actually get deleted....as in freeing up disk space?  Or do the hard images remain?

 

[kihon]

@bfarber

[Jennifer M]

@kihon In the ACP you can actually mass move/delete content based on quite a few criteria. You'd have to do it per category but it's less individualized. You can mass move them and review them (in case you want to be sure you're not removing popular images) by going into the:

1. Community > Gallery > Categories
2. Click the Arrow down and choose "Move / Delete Content"
3. In here use your criteria to choose what you want to mass move or delete.
   

There is no views count etc but you can choose to filter by comments. I would probably not delete things with a comment but that's your choice.

[kihon]

@Jennifer M Thanks. By doing this, does it actually delete the images?

[Joel R]

2 hours ago, kihon said:

@Jennifer M Thanks. By doing this, does it actually delete the images?

If you look at the screenshot, yes it does delete. You can choose to move or delete.