Dear Kids,

As you will remember, the 2500 image limit caused me to create new projects for my website. All that works great.

However, I was updating previously not used pages today on my original project, and Kabang I hit the 2,500 image limit! I felt like I had hit the Jackpot in Las Vegas!!!!!! Big old honkin" notice popped up saying this project was a finished deal! What the Halibut I say. Who in the world decided this. Totally arbitrary! How about 2,234 images or 12,053 images? And don't give the Ol' Captain the bogolna about how much space the program takes up because the image size is up to my computer, not the program.
Ok, lets say I have 10 pages with 250 images each and I am out of business on the project?

Just asking but I think whoever decided this was a dart player.

Best,

Cap't Stevo
Butte, Montana USA
www.desertclassics.com

I agree the 2500 seems arbitrary. But I guess you remember this previous thread (second post from the top of page 2) where Harpo said that practical considerations rule out increasing the limit.

But I'm curious: Now that you are knocking on the door of 2500 again, how do your find the speed of your project while you are working on it? I am thinking of things like slow scrolling, and speed of switching pages.

Dear Bruceee,

No effect whatsoever in working around the project or previewing(single pages). The only delay I notice is the time it takes for the publish box to pop up which gets longer and longer as the site gets bigger. It runs about 15-20 seconds at this point. Then the upload time is normal.

To get around the limit problem, publish your pages, then delete images which takes you back under the limit. Don't delete pages though, that is a big no-no.

Remember my previous note: NEVER try to preview the whole project when the project is big, it will crash the program.

It's interesting that you don't see any particular sluggishness apart from the publish. Just how does that happen? When you click the publish button on the toolbar? Or when, with the Publisher open, you publish a page?

When you delete images, are you doing that directly in your source image directory? Then I guess when you republish that page again you copy them back into your source image directory with Windows Explorer or the equivalent.

Preview ALL shouldn't crash on a big project -- have you tried it again recently with the latest version of SSPro?

Please excuse all the questions -- lacking a BIG project of my own to test (with images), I have to make do with yours

With the publish box open, when you hit the publish button it takes almost 20 seconds to start uploading. In a small prject, it starts uploading instantly. When I delete images, I just group them and delete. If I have to publish the page again, I have to put the images back in. With SSpro which I am of course using the new version, when you try to preview the whole project, it just keeps roling and never finsihes. At that point, when you try to close the prograns you get the "program is not responding" pop-up. Finally after clicking to close numerous times, the program quits. Other times, it just keeps popping up the Not Responding box and I have to reboot. If I have not saved before doing this, all recent work is lost. In order to get around this, I had to publsih every single page in the projects one-by-one. The single page and all pages preview buttons are right next to each other and if you make a mistake and hit the publish all button, this problem occurs. I now always save before previewing even single pages.

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When I delete images, I just group them and delete. If I have to publish the page again, I have to put the images back in.

That must be a real pain! What happens if you move the images out of your source directory instead? Moving them back again would be a lot easier. I don't know whether a missing image counts as one of the official 2500 -- if it didn't that would be an easier alternative.

I suspect if you left it long enough, the preview all would finish eventually -- Windows acts like that too. It might be a useful feature to have a Cancel button for the preview so that if SS gets hung up previewing, you can stop it gracefully.

Dear Bruceee, I don't know what a source directory is and I don't want to know! Remember El Captain is strictly WYSIWYG! It is not really that big of a problem for me as what I am doing to resurrecting "archive" pages of vehicles sold. All of these pages are in my original project. I made the mistake a couple years ago of removing content from sold vehicles and republishing them. Since I have found out "content is everything" (almost), I am now redoing these pages to original content with "Sold" at the top. I have linked these pages to a master page links called "Featured Vehicles Sold Archives"
http://www.desertclassics.com/DCsale.html
This gives the search engines more content to crawl.

All my new pages are added in my Project 2. Soon it will be Project 3.

I am not sure if the Preview All would ever finish. I left it on for hours and it never finished. I have 3 GB ram and dual processor so it couldn't be my computer

Yes, a progress box with "Cancel Preview" for Preview All would be great.