By jim_at_miramontes on

I need thumbnails for the images that are getting uploaded to my site, but, for a variety of reasons, I need several different sizes for different kinds of images. Thus I'm in effect rolling my own thumbnails with imagecache and adding some hooks to get them inserted into the right places. The result is that I don't really need or want the thumbnails that imagefield wants to generate, and would prefer not having them clutter up my server. Is there any way to get imagefield to just not create these thumbnails? Or would that screw up something else that I'm not thinking about? Thanks!

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nevets commented

Image Field (vs image module) does not directly produce thumbnails (it relies on image cache for that).

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jim_at_miramontes commented

... I'm not sure what code is responsible for producing the thumbnails, but there's definitely code in imagefield.module -- in imagefield_file_download(), for example -- that's dealing with an "imagefield_thumbs" directory. I haven't completely dissected this code yet, but something's going on with what it calls "admin thumbnails". Can you clarify? (BTW, it's looking more and more like there's no way around these images getting created, but it would be nice to know what's going on here.) Thanks much.