Many products, too many images.

[ToXxX]

Hi, I am using prestashop since april and i found it very simple and useful.

But i have a question: if product number will reach 10.000 or 15.000 then there are 60.000 or 75.000 images in /p/ directory; is there a way to avoid this high number of images in one directory?
Is there a way to divide the images in subdirectory (e.g. image in /p/, small in /p/small/, large in /p/large/, ecc...)?

Sorry for my bad english, and thank to all for patience.

[zyko]

What is the purpose of dividing the images into sub-folder or subdirectory ?? I don't think, having high number of images in one folder would affect the prestashop working , instead of increasing the folder size

[ToXxX]

What is the purpose of dividing the images into sub-folder or subdirectory ?? I don't think, having high number of images in one folder would affect the prestashop working , instead of increasing the folder size

Isn't a maximum number of files in one directory?
Doesn't slow the system?

[jimlevitt]

I don't think there are any rules to the maximum amount of files you can have in a directory. But if you do have a lot of images, then your website is going to load slower (depending on how much room they take up). But I don't see how putting them in subdirectories will help that

[zyko]

But if you do have a lot of images on web page, then your website is going to load slower (depending on how much room they take up)

"on web page" - is missing form above statement.
Else have larger no of files in a folder wouldn't slow the system - until we trying to retrieve all the images at a time from any web page

[ruilong]

The only problem I see with all the files in one folder, is that most FTP servers have a limit on 3000 ~ 5000 files in the directory listings. But if you have that many products, you should host your site on a dedicated or VPS solution so that you have ssh access anyway.