Question on "Replace Photo"

WinsomeWorks

Could someone clarify exactly what gets swapped out when "Replace Photo" is used? Is it ONLY the image itself, and its filename? i.e. what happens to keywords, captions, comments, and anything else you can think of? I've not used this tool for ages-- I keep forgetting it's even there. I think I saw it had problems for awhile too. Are they fixed now? Thanks!

Andy

keywords and captions and comments stay.

I'm really curious, why not just use the tool - make a junk private gallery with a few junk images and replace away - nothing beats first hand experience.

RogersDA

Andy wrote:

keywords and captions and comments stay.

I'm really curious, why not just use the tool - make a junk private gallery with a few junk images and replace away - nothing beats first hand experience.

After having talked to a few people that think that there are "behind-the-scenes" settings for the original photo that will be gone if it is replaced, and thus bork their site, even though the things that can be seen (keywords, captions, etc.) are still there. It see to come from a basic misunderstanding of how SmugMug works.

Andy

RogersDA wrote:

After having talked to a few people that think that there are "behind-the-scenes" settings for the original photo that will be gone if it is replaced, and thus bork their site, even though the things that can be seen (keywords, captions, etc.) are still there. It see to come from a basic misunderstanding of how SmugMug works.

I'm not sure what this post means....

RogersDA

Andy wrote:

I'm not sure what this post means....

You stated

I'm really curious, why not just use the tool - make a junk private gallery with a few junk images and replace away - nothing beats first hand experience.

I was saying that people I have talked to don't try features like "replace photo" because they have some misguided thinking that their SmugMug accounts have some unseen link/tie-in to the original photo that will be broken if they use the replace photo feature. That's all.

jfriend

RogersDA wrote:

You stated
I was saying that people I have talked to don't try features like "replace photo" because they have some misguided thinking that their SmugMug accounts have some unseen link/tie-in to the original photo that will be broken if they use the replace photo feature. That's all.

The point of replace photo is that the link to the photo is not broken. Uploading a new photo and deleting the old would generate an entirely new link, but replacing will preserve the image ID and image key and old links will continue to work.

P.S. Technically, there is a -x on the end of the image link that does change when you do a replace photo, but this is just to make sure that browser caching doesn't keep the new version of the image from showing up. Even old versions of the -x will still show the new image so old links will continue to work.