Hi, I’m having a strange issue with using the thumb() function on my live server (with localhost everything is fine). I think this is somewhat similar to this issue, but as this did not seemed to be resolved, and I am using Kirby 3, it made sense to create a new thread. Basically I am using a cont…

Yes - I could tell as the response time was very slow in the browser (as the thumbs were being created), then I looked and saw new folders in the /media folder were being generated (with new timestamps).

I remember a similar issue and it was related to the server time. Sadly, I don’t remember the exact solution but Kirby thought the source files were newer than the existing thumbs and thus created new ones. Maybe that gives you an direction how to solve this.

Thumbs unnecessarily regenerated

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texnixe January 28, 2020, 7:07pm 2

What makes you think that new thumbs are generated? Do they get new timestamps?

Dozens of media/images being created and then deleted on every page request

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Thumbs unnecessarily regenerated

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