All,

Wanted? to share my? experience dealing with photos.? For our migration from Yahoo, I? didn't have the photos included.? Why? Because the pictures ran from 8Kb to 6Mb, and, in the new regime, I wanted to save space and use resources efficiently.? So, I worked from downloaded files, downsizing them before upload.? I used a free utility, .?? I found that setting the size (the first setting) at 100%, and the file size (a sliding bar) at 240K worked pretty well most of the? time.? In this way, I could process a folder/directory of photos of mixed file size, so it would ignore the small ones and compress the big ones.? Going from a 2 or 3 Mb photo to a 240kb? or less photo did not impact the? quality very? much.? I estimate that about 2/3 of the? pictures were already "small".

The bulkresizephotos? application does not (they say) upload and process the pictures; rather it runs a job on your machine and places the? results in your brouser defined downloads file in a .zip format. Very? fast. ? The software appears to react to? settings? in the order you make them.? Some of the? time, rather? than setting a file size limit, I chose 100% size and 1024X768 for size.? This seemed to? have about the same results as the other.??

I did a copy and paste from the downloaded file name to the groups.io album name, cleaning up as I went.? Groups.io sorts/arranges albums? by upload date/time only.?? I'm? dealing with 1940's to 1960's jeeps and wagons (willystech), so, to the extent possible, I used the order they? were sorted by my computer- numbers first, then? alphabetical, to be the upload order. I don't like that my name is displayed ast he uploader of all of the albums and pictures.? I? could have monkeyed around with another email address and name to change it to "Archive" or similar, could still do this.? Also, there is a list of names? and email addresses? provided by Groups.io, so you can't enter anything that's not a name or entry in the directory. ? I only know a few of the correct names or addresses associated with? albums. ? I don't know if this was handled better by the the groups.io migration process.

Alternatively, I could have migrated the? pictures, and then deleted the big ones and replace with smaller ones- Kb and Mb I mean, using a screen shot application- Preview in the Mac world- but I don't know how I could put replacement pictures back in album in the same place they were.? Most of the time this would not be important.

I have all the files "shrunk" ready? to upload; I've uploaded over half of them.? The users are just thrilled to have a working system again, I don't know if they care about all the old pictures or not.??? Getting there.?? A lot of work, fun to see all the pictures? though.

Dan

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 02:03 AM, dan mulholland wrote:

Wanted? to share my? experience dealing with photos.

Thanks for giving a detailed view of this option. :)
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Dan,

Thanks for sharing!? I too had done this as well with another OpenSource FREE software.? The YG file sizes were up to 6Mb to 8Mb in size.? Total on YG Photos was 696Mb.? After the resize from 3072 down to 1024 to retain the photo quality, the file sizes averaged from 124Kb to 200Kb.? And yes, some dropped to like 68Kb.? Overall after all the resize, the total became about 156Mb for all the photos.?

With our group on the free GIO plan at this time, keeping the 1Gb limit had to be achieved.

Glad you are self-minded to control the limits too.? Thanks for posting!

BMaverick

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:53 PM, BMaverick wrote:

With our group on the free GIO plan at this time, keeping the 1Gb limit had to be achieved.

You do know that there is a Setting for photo size reduction at the time of uploading provided by Groups.io don't you... it's called Max Size in Photos Section.

Chris

What do you do if you’ve already included the photos in your Yahoo transfer and then discovered they are too big, ?Is there an “in- place” resolution capping function?

Also, is there a way to download the size and/or resolution of each photo in the group? ?

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:04 PM, Alan Watkins wrote:

What do you do if you’ve already included the photos in your Yahoo transfer and then discovered they are too big, ?Is there an “in- place” resolution capping function?

No. The resize only occurs upon upload/transfer.

Also, is there a way to download the size and/or resolution of each photo in the group?

The size of each photo, in kB, is shown when the image is displayed in the slide show presentation. But the best way to check for oversize images is probably to export all them and examine them offline. See the Export Group Data button at the top of your Settings page.

Bruce

Chris,

I? experimented with this, with attachments.? It does decrease the size of the picture, in the sense that one views it as a postcard, say.? The other methods keep the picture full size. Could be I? was doing something wrong, too.

More-I was able to upload 156 albums, using 66 Mb of space.?

Dan

Chris,

Yes, but unknown IF the reduced image size would degrade the quality worse than using a 3rd party software.

This way, using the 3rd party software, adjustments and tweaks can be done to nail it right each time.? Then uploading to GIO, the same or close to the same sizing can be used. :)

BMaverick

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 02:44 PM, BMaverick wrote:

Yes, but unknown IF the reduced image size would degrade the quality worse than using a 3rd party software.

I've tested the various resize options, 140 x 140 to 1024 x 1024, using files from 35KB to over 10MB and haven't seen any degradation of quality, just size.

Duane
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