Accessing t_images and d_images

alreadyregistered · #1 10-05-2007, 11:54 AM

Greetings. Assistance appreciated:

Having a heck of a time trying to select images. I have moved all of my thumbnail images into the default t_images directory, and likewise my detail images into d_images. Both directories are subs of root. These two directories are set as location of images, in "general" XCart admin settings. Images stored in file system, not DB.

However, when using add/modify Subcategory/Product, I am unable to access those using the "Change image" button. A separate window opens for me to select the location, but neither is available (only "../" and "master/").

When I try to add those 2 image directories under "Files", they show on that screen but when I try to select them using the above-noted popup window, the window display jumps back to the defaulted "../". Permissions for those directories seem to be okay. (I'm logged in as Admin.)

Any ideas?

alreadyregistered · #2 10-08-2007, 06:12 AM

Anyone, anyone? Bueller, Bueller, anyone?

It has been a week now, and XCart support has not responded to my ticket about this. It is holding me up now, so if anyone has suggestions, I would appreciate it.

ec999 · #3 10-08-2007, 06:25 AM

Same problem here - seems to be a few questions about this on the forums but no answer...

We changed the files_dir and files_webdir variables in the config.php to /images and we can now browse to the images in the 'change image' popup, but obviously we now don't have a separate file upload directory (don't think we really need it for this project, but there must be a way to just add those images folders to the popup without messing with the file upload directory...)

This is using 4.1.8

alreadyregistered · #4 10-09-2007, 10:19 AM

Here is the response that I got back (finally!) from XCart team:

"X-Cart 4.1.x handles images automatically. If the images are stored in the filesystem X-Cart will save them in the 'images/X' directory (where X -> C,D,T etc., depending on the image type).

So, if you want to select the images from the list (using the GUI interface) you should move those folders to the '<xcart_dir>/files' directory.
To change the images location (filesystem/database) you should go to the 'Administration' -> 'Images location' page."

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I did move my images folders to the files/master directory (../files/master/t_images; ../files/master/d_images) and they then were accessible through GUI.