How do I get it to never create new thumbnails or atleast only create them once a month or so. All my photos are static which a rarely update, I find whenever I view my page the page is slow to load. I applied the performance hack and adjusted the thumbnail cache in the site mambot to 40500 (about a month) yet 10 minutes later if i reload the page new thumbnails get created. what should the cache be set at also do I need to change the $cache_expire_time * 60 > time via the plugin_jw_sigpro.php file?

Thanks

We had a similar performance issue as we have a blog of sigpro galleries on the same page and was very slow - we used a component called JRE cache (it's a cache component for the whole site) and this sped it up enormously. (if we update pics we then clear the cache and reload page and it stays cached for as long as you want.

JRE Cache worked great, thanks! There must be a way to have the cache timeout work properly without the need for JRE cache, hopefully one of the staff will read this and give an answer.

Hi my friends!

The script checks the creation time of the thumb respect the current time.
If the script see that the creation time is too small respect the time you gave
at the config page of the plugin, tries to regenerate the thumb.

The issue you talk about remembers me an old bug of the sig pro
but in the latest version is fixed.

Can you please post the 3-4 lines of sig pro where you can find the $cache_expire_time?

Thank you!

I've tried seting the cache to 45000 (about a month) in both the above code and the config area of the mambot but niether change made a difference. I tried changing them both to 0 (assuming that would be never refresh) but it had the same results. In either case it would cache the thumbnails for about 10 minutes.

Hmmm... the script is correct...

Seems that the time of modification of the thumb ( file ) isn't correct.
Please, can you try to replace the function filemtime   with the filectime ?

Can you give me the value of the filemtime ( if it is possible ) ?

Thank you!

I replaced the filemtime with filectime as shown in the following script (i think that's what you were getting at)

// create thumbnails
if (file_exists($tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format) && filectime ($tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format) + $cache_expire_time * 120 > time()) {
$html .= $leftcomment.'<img alt="'.$clickopen.'" title="'.$clickopen.'" src="'.$mosConfig_live_site.$tempfolder.md5($_images_dir_.$name).".".$format.'" />'.$rightcomment;
} else {

As for the value of the filemtime, I'm not exactly sure what you mean? If you mean the time the thumbs are modified, the modification times are current. If I reload the page and hour from now, they will be recreated in the temp directory.
I also have another issue where the thumbs are not displayed properly when I click on menu links. Here is the site in question:If I click on the links across the top everything works well (except the load time of course), if I click on the links in the main menu (on the right) the thumbnails don't display correctly and if I click on one of the thumbs, the larger image displays in a pop up window. If I delete the cache the same thing will happen differently, it depends on which link you click on first. for example if I click on the services link at the top first, then the services link on the right shows the page incorrectly, and vice versa, same for the other pages, which ever link is clicked first the corresponding link in the other menu displays the thumbs incorrectly (as if the gallery script isn't being loaded properly.
Here's the plugin_jw_sigpro .php for reference if you need it.
I hope this all makes sense!
I appreciate the help