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Hi there,
Many of the events we import are weekly and have the same event image, yet the Importer repeats the image over and over each week. Couldn’t it do a quick scan to see if that image exists (by binary search) and just use the old one, it’s really taking up a lot of disk space now, thanks!
Caroline
Oh no! Thanks for reaching out Caroline—this is not intended behavior, so if there’s a bug here it’s something we can definitely get on top of and fix.
I don’t reproduce this problem on my own local site—which does not mean there’s not a bug, just that I need to do some more investigating here.
To that end, would you mind providing two bits of information here?
1. You mention “the importer”—I’m pretty sure you just mean the Facebook Importer, is that right?
2. Can you post your site’s “system information”? Here’s how → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/sharing-sys-info/
Thanks!
GeorgeThanks for the speedy reply! Is it not expected behaviour that if 2 different events upload the same picture , it will be seen as a different image E.G.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1524303097875037/
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https://www.facebook.com/events/1728673430710384/1. Yes the Facebook Importer made by Tribe
2.URLHome
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Thanks for this information!
I consulted with a developer on our team here and have two pieces of information to share here:
1. First, I notice in your “System Information” that you’re using some outdated versions of our plugins. Instead of The Events Calendar 4.0.5, for example, you should be using the latest version, which is currently 4.1.2.
So, I would recommend updating The Events Calendar to 4.1.2 and then updating all of the other add-ons for it on your site to their most recent versions; you can find the downloads for these other add-ons at http://theeventscalendar.com/my-account/downloads
2. Next, one thing the developer and I noticed is that the images on your event pages LOOK the same to the human eye, but they’ve actually got different filenames (and are attached to different events, of course). They do seem to be the same size, but the fact is that the filenames of the images themselves are actually different. In our code, then, different hashes would be returned for the images when these events are looked up to be imported—this would suggest to the code that the images are different and thus any sort of “duplicate” test is failed.
They look identical, admittedly—but they might have slightly different compression values or EXIF data or some other small difference, trivial to a human but hard for a machine to pick out, and so they are imported anew each time.
I’m sorry about these facts, because we unfortunately don’t have a solution for this at this time. 🙁 But I hope that my explanation of the problem is useful.
Let me know what you think!
GeorgeThanks George. I’ll update the Calendar right away.
Sorry for the slow reply Gmail decided this one was spam !
Hmm could the image checking not be a bit more fuzzy ? Could I set that somewhere ? It’s just they are the same image on the desktop, I imagine Facebook’s compression chews them a little differently each upload
No problem @Caroline, thank you for the follow-up!
One it comes to “setting” the compression and such for the images, I hate to keep bearing bad news but this is unfortunately not something that you could easily alter—especially not from within your WordPress site. The compression on Facebook.com itself indeed seems to end up with slightly different images (as far as a program can interpret them), and they still ultimately end up on Facebook.com with a different filename and such.
So it’s a tricky problem—I’m sorry about the state of things, but please let me know if I can try to help with anything else or what other comments/feedback you might have on this.
Sincerely,
George
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