@GodoFredoNinja the original image needs to be kept around so that it’s possible to re-generate compressed/resized images. Storage space should not be much of a concern these days, especially when considering the relatively small size of images.
I don’t agree. The compressed images may be problematic and it’s best practice to keep them.
Actually, the compressed images are bigger in my case. I use JPEGmini which is better at this point.
Just jump in your server to delete them: rm *_o.jpg
Don’t do this! The *_o.jpg images are the originals, if you’re deleting them you risk breaking future functionality where Ghost will generate thumbnail images optimised for different use-cases within a theme.
The best thing to do is leave your images directory alone and let Ghost manage it as needed. If you find particular problems where an optimised image has ended up being larger than the original please raise an issue because that is definitely a bug!
Thank you for taking the time and explaining in the doubt that I had. So, for the moment, I’ll leave things as they are to see what happens in future versions of Ghost.
I’m a Ghost Pro user and I don’t have this issue with image file sizes. I was a bug in 2.6 version. I had to reoptimize all my images… but now it works fine. Just checked.