I’m regularly updating a website that I expect to have a large number of image galleries over time. I see that “Image Gallery” provides an option for the storage location, either “In This Document” or “In Original Directory”. Does anyone have any advice regarding the best choice where this is expected to become large over time? I don’t know if there is a risk of poor performance if the site project becomes very large.
Also, if “In Original Directory” is selected, is the path to the images stored relative to the project file i.e. so it will still work if the project and image directories are copied elsewhere but still have the same relative position to each other?
Hi @ralphw. I am running a site with a little over 180 pages full of photographs and videos - thousands of them. I have kept them embedded in the Sitely file which now stands at 23Gb in size. I have absolutely no problems opening, editing or uploading at all. I keep the Sitely file in Apple’s Icloud becuase I need to access it from a laptop every now and again. I sometimes have to wait a few minutes for the files to sync but otherwise it works flawlessly. I also embed the files so I don’t lose anything. I back the Sitely file up nightly so I only ever lose a day’s work (never happened).
I’m not sure sure how much Sitely can take like this but so far I’ve not had to worry. Choice is yours.
The original location setting doesn’t store the path, because that doesn’t really work in a world of sandboxed apps. Apple provides an opaque “file bookmark” we save, but as far as I know it’s not very resilient unfortunately.