deleting images in the images directory when deleting them in the entry?

Hello,

Ansel has two different storage directory settings for each field, the Upload Directory and the Save Directory.

The Upload directory is not an Ansel controlled directory, but it is where images are drawn from or uploaded to. This works very much like the native file field. Once the file is uploaded, you'd need to remove it from that directory in the file manager since Ansel does not control that directory.

The Save directory is a directory Ansel manages and is not meant to be seen by users of EE. It should be hidden from your CMS user group(s). Ansel will add images to that directory when an image is added to a field, and remove any images it has generated from that directory whenever an image is removed from an entry, or an entry containing images is removed, etc.

In any event, you should never use the same directory for Upload and Save because that can certainly create all kinds of confusion. And you should never manually remove or otherwise manipulate images in a directory used as an Ansel save directory.

See this segment of the documentation: https://buzzingpixel.com/software/ansel-ee/documentation/field-type-settings#uploadSaveDirectories

Hi TJ,

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation! That really helps a lot!

We actually use two directories, an upload directory and a save directory. But I didn't realize until now that after adding pictures via fields in EE you can delete them from the upload directory.

So the upload directory only serves as an upload vehicle - and even if you add new resolutions and Ansel has to recalculate them from the original, can it do that from the copy in the upload directory?

No, the images Ansel creates for a field image are of the image's crop and size, the original is always drawn from for resizing when a user goes to edit the field. If you delete the source image, the image will no longer be editable.