[TYPO3-english] How to change the default image upload folderuploads\pics?

[JoH asenau]

>> Since the image is not available for the editor in the backend. I
>> guess that attaching means uploading the same image again from a
>> local computer. 
>> 
>> There is nothing wrong with this approach except that you need a
>> local image achieve which basically mirrors the uploads/pics folder.
>> This is what I would like to avoid. With several editors I find it
>> easier to keep all images accessible in the backend.
>> 
>> Do I understand the concept correct?
> 
> Read carefully, what Ron has written before:
> "If you have images that you want to use over and over. The user
> should put the those images in the fileadmin directory and then
> browse for them each time they need them. "
> 
> There is a 'Filelist' module, that allows such a possibility and even
> popup window in Image and Text/wImage allows uploading the image into
> fileadmin directory - just click small folder icon "Browse for files"
> and you'll see. 

But you should mention that this will still use copies of these originals in the uploads/xxx/ folder of each element using an image.
Which is how real life image departments work: They have got a huge collcetion of images and the editors will just get a hardcopy but never the original, when they want to use an image.

The DAM approach is something completely different: The images are kept withint their original folders and there will be database records containing all the information about each image. Using an image within a content element then will create a database reference to the record of the image, without making any kind of copy.

The drawbacks in the first case are:
The images, that are already in use, won't change, when the original is changed
The disk capacity wasted by copies of the images may be huge

The drawbacks in the second case are:
When the original is changed, all records that are referencing this image will be changed immediately, even those that should have kept the old version.
Sometimes it's not as easy to get the images, i.e. with TypoScript, since you always have to use a JOIN to get the path from the DB

HTH

Joey

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