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Shozam - Generate/Upload - Why it seems to generate/upload *all* files?

David Green
posted this on November 28, 2011 06:23 pm

Note that a simple operation such as adding an image to an existing album does impact more than just one page. Because of the interconnectedness of pages and the gallery navigation, many pages may be affected. Also, modifying a link in the banner will affect all gallery pages so all HTML files will have to be generated again; however, images (which are typically much larger in file size) would not need to be generated and uploaded again.

Please note also that the program may list all files on the left side in Step 5 when the gallery gets generated as it goes through all of them. However, only a subset of them may be processed and generated again. You can verify this by clicking on "View files" in Step 5 after the gallery is generated and look at the timestamp of various files to assess which files were newly generated. This timestamp is used in Step 6 when the program uploads "recent files"' it uploads files with a timestamp that is more recent than the time of the last successful upload.

You can learn more about the underlying logic used in Shozam to generate and upload only your changes (rather than the whole gallery) by reading to the respective online help files: