Damn JPEG's....how small to make them...

[srochford]

You can only impose quotas on home areas, not on the shared departmental or curriculum areas, nor on NAS drives and such like.

 

it depends on which version of server software you're running. Server 2003 R2 and later have the File Server Resource Manager which is more flexible - Quota Management

 

There are also third party tools (eg - WinQuota Software - Flexible Solutions for Windows Administration) which will impose a quota on any directory.

 

With NAS boxes I'm not sure what you could do - it would depend on how much control you had over the OS but if you can run scripts on it then you could do something which ran (say) once an hour to check for folder sizes and if limits were exceeded it turned off the ability to create new files.

[redsnappa]

The is nothing worse than printing photos and other work for displays only to find some thicko techy who does not kno how to use quotas has reduced the size of them so the maximum size they can be printed is say 8x12 cm which is usless for display work.

[SteveBentley]

Tried it, teachers apparently don't see why they should have to make the effort to keep their files organised (or even to turn down the settings on the cameras).

 

I'd always suggest taking the picture in the highest quality available, and then resample it later. It's much nicer to have a full 10mp image to crop a section out of than once it's been resized.

 

I'd probably go as far as saying keep the original files on a DVD or something so you can go back to the source image if you want to use it some time down the line.

[LeMarchand]

It's much nicer to have a full 10mp image to crop a section out of than once it's been resized.

 

:rofl:

 

I work in Primary: You're talking about people who have difficulty getting pictures off the memory card and onto the shared areas correctly!

 

There's no photo manipulation being done, just huge quantities of unnecessarily large pictures taking up already tight disk space on the server!

[kennysarmy]

I'd probably go as far as saying keep the original files on a DVD or something so you can go back to the source image if you want to use it some time down the line.

 

and who is going to spend time doing that?

[plexer]

Whilst this is an old'ish thread adn I will add to the wiki when I can get it to work for me I found this app today Batch Picture Resize easy to configure and then run against a folder or set of folders.

 

Ben

[SHimmer45]

all i have to say is faststone photo resizer awesome piece of free software (prolly already been mentioned)