Martin,
One of our list members has a signature as a graphic so every time
they post, the graphic is saved to our group pictures folder - we have
670 copies so far!
Oops.
So I see two problems here.
How do I do a bulk delete of pictures? I can do single deletes, but i
won't live long enough to do this 670 times (and counting!!).
That's one of them. We don't have that feature yet.
The other is how to automatically detect such signature images and not store them individually, both to avoid this problem in the Emailed Photos album, and to avoid the related problem of needlessly using up your group's storage quota.
There probably are relatively quick ways to determine if that such an image has already been stored, especially since we don't need (nor want) a "looks like" type of match, an exact match of the image file (and maybe the surrounding text of the signature) will do.
A manual solution would be to have checkbox or button in the Emailed Photos album where you can designate an image as being repeated (as in a signature). The system would go merge all copies into a single stored copy and check future message posts for more of the same.
One question about doing this would be what to do about the "Message" button that takes you back to the message the image came from. It would likely be ok if that was a link back to the first use. At the other extreme it could bring up a list of all the messages (operating like a kind of search result), but that might be over the top - imagining your case with 670 messages containing the image.
Anyone spot the obvious flaw with this idea, before I post it in beta?
Shal
Shal Farley