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Answered Missing image detection

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    Andy Jones Reply #1, 7 years, 2 months ago
    Hi All,

    I have a vast image gallery.
    The gallery is set up as a bunch of collections.
    The images not only reside in the gallery, but also appear on several pages throughout the site, but are called from the same directory.

    The client frequently asks us to remove certain images from the gallery due to them being outdated.
    We then have to check through every page to see if that image appears anywhere else - but as it's a manual process, human error often prevails, and we end up with broken images.

    Does anyone have any clever ideas on how to either alert me of a broken image, or a simple way to check once it's removed?

    Thanks!

    This question has been answered by markh. See the first response.

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      LK Reply #2, 7 years, 2 months ago
      Is the image setup as a template variable? Using the Gallery extra or modmore Gallery or some other way?

      You could try something like this in your output

      [[+image:gt=`0`:show]]
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        Andy Jones Reply #3, 7 years, 2 months ago
        Quote from: lkfranklin at Feb 16, 2017, 11:17 AM
        Is the image setup as a template variable? Using the Gallery extra or modmore Gallery or some other way?

        You could try something like this in your output

        [[+image:gt=`0`:show]]

        Hi - thanks or your input.
        The issue isn't with the gallery though - it's where images are used elsewhere in the site as incidental images - these are pulled in using TVs in the template.
        I just thought that I guess i could search for the image file name within the database via in phpMyAdmin - but it's obviously not a very graceful solution!
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          Mark Hamstra Reply #4, 7 years, 2 months ago
          You could use a plugin that fires on OnPageNotFound to alert you of 404s that happen. Notify404 sends you an email, but it gets a bit spammy sometimes.. you could try adjusting it so it only notifies you of 404s on image types, sending you the referer along with it.
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            Andy Jones Reply #5, 7 years, 2 months ago
            Quote from: markh at Feb 16, 2017, 12:31 PM
            You could use a plugin that fires on OnPageNotFound to alert you of 404s that happen. Notify404 sends you an email, but it gets a bit spammy sometimes.. you could try adjusting it so it only notifies you of 404s on image types, sending you the referer along with it.

            Sounds like plan - thanks for the steer!