Storing Sorl-thumbnail created images in separate folder

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Swaroop Shankar V

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Apr 28, 2012, 3:06:12 PM4/28/12
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Hello All,
I am using sorl-thumbnail extensively in my project. It works perfectly fine except for one issue which is regarding the storage. The default behaviour of sorl-thumbnail is to create the images in the same folder where the original image is stored. Is it possible to provide a separate location for storage of generated file rather than the source folder? I could find a setting called THUMBNAIL_STORAGE, is it the one to be used? I am not able to figure it out from the documentation. If yes then should i provide the absolute or relative path?

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Swaroop Shankar V

Kelly Nicholes

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:39:17 AM4/29/12
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It always just caches the files for me in a completely different directory.

Swaroop Shankar V

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Apr 29, 2012, 12:27:56 PM4/29/12
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Thanks Kelly, could you tell me what all settings you had provided for it to cache into a separate directory?

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Swaroop Shankar V



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Tiago Almeida

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Apr 30, 2012, 9:57:04 AM4/30/12
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Have you tried changing the THUMBNAIL_STORAGE setting? I haven't done what you ask for but you should give it a try.
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Swaroop Shankar V

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Apr 30, 2012, 3:29:33 PM4/30/12
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It looks like the latest version of solr-thumnails or the version that i have currently installed supports THUMBNAIL_STORAGE. When i checked i could see a file under the path solr/thumbnail called defaults.py. In this file there are following options 

DEBUG = False
BASEDIR = ''
SUBDIR = ''
PREFIX = ''
QUALITY = 85
CONVERT = '/usr/bin/convert'
WVPS = '/usr/bin/wvPS'
EXTENSION = 'jpg'
PROCESSORS = (
    'sorl.thumbnail.processors.colorspace',
    'sorl.thumbnail.processors.autocrop',
    'sorl.thumbnail.processors.scale_and_crop',
    'sorl.thumbnail.processors.filters',
)
IMAGEMAGICK_FILE_TYPES = ('eps', 'pdf', 'psd')

which i guess can be overridden from the django settings file. Here there is BASEDIR and SUBDIR and i guess those are the settings to be used but not sure. When i tried to override the default i could see no change. So anyone having experience in setting the same please let me know. 

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Swaroop Shankar V



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Swaroop Shankar V

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Apr 30, 2012, 3:54:52 PM4/30/12
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It looks like i was using an old version which came with satchmo. Am currently testing my project with new version. 

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Swaroop Shankar V



Swaroop Shankar V

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Apr 30, 2012, 3:58:54 PM4/30/12
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Okay in the latest version every images generated is getting saved to cache. My issue is resolved. Thanks all for your kind help :)

Thanks and Regards,
Swaroop Shankar V



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