Images importing, not overwriting

I have a client I installed this plugin for (they purchased the pro version).

Because they frequently make changes to events, even though the number is relatively small (around 25 total events) I set the scheduled import to run hourly so when changes are made they’re reflected on the site with decent timing.

I didn’t catch this problem until the client alerted me a couple months later. She told me her image library was huge.

I went and looked, and there were over 46,500 images uploaded to the server by the Eventbrite imports plugin.

Seems when it runs the import, even though it’s not making a new post in the events, it imports the featured image every time the import is done, and it doesn’t overwrite the existing images, it’s placing them new.

So understanding that WordPress makes 7 copies of every file that comes to over 750,000 images, taking up just about 95% of the drive it’s on. Thankfully it was on a dedicated instance.

I looked in the settings and I don’t see anywhere to disable importing the featured image (we don’t use it, or the posts anyway, we only use the dates and registration links).

I don’t understand why there isn’t an option to turn this off, and what I really don’t understand is why it wasn’t overwriting, or at least ignoring the featured image if there’s already a corresponding entry for that event.

about 25 total events and 375,000+ featured images

• This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by viruseater.