Managing Image Resolutions
You can manage adapted image resolutions via the Adaptive Media application. This includes manually generating adapted images, disabling/enabling resolutions, as well as deleting resolutions with their images.
Editing Image Resolutions
You cannot edit a resolution’s size and identifier if Adaptive Media has used it to generate adapted images. This prevents inconsistencies in generated images. If you must change the values of a resolution with adapted images, you must delete the resolution and create a new one.
Manually Generating Adapted Images
If you’ve uploaded images before adding or enabling resolutions, you must manually generate adapted images for each one. The percentage of adapted images appears in the application table.
To generate images for a resolution manually,
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Open the Global Menu (
), go to the Control Panel tab, and click Adaptive Media. -
Click Actions (
) for the desired resolution and select Adapt Remaining.
Alternatively, you can click Options (
) in the Application Bar and select Adapt All Images to begin generating images for all enabled resolutions.
Adaptive Media begins generating the images for each resolution asynchronously according to your processing configuration.
Disabling and Enabling Image Resolutions
Image resolutions are enabled by default, but you can disable them at any time. Disabling a resolution prevents Adaptive Media from using it to generate images, but images previously generated for the resolution remain available.
To disable/re-enable a resolution,
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Click Actions (
) for the desired resolution. -
Select Disable/Enable.
While disabled, Adaptive Media doesn’t use the resolution to generate adapted images.
If you upload images and later re-enable a resolution, you must manually generate adapted images for them.
Deleting Image Resolutions
If you must delete an image resolution, you must first disable it. You cannot delete enabled resolutions. This prevents the accidental deletion of image resolutions.
Be careful when deleting image resolutions. Once deleted, the resolution’s adapted images are irretrievably lost and are not replaced automatically by new image resolutions you create.
To delete an image resolution,
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Click Actions (
) for a disabled resolution. -
Select Delete.
The resolution has been permanently removed along with its adapted images.
The Recycle Bin and Adapted Images
You can’t move adapted images directly to the Recycle Bin. But if the original image is in the Recycle Bin, the corresponding adapted images behave as if they are in the Recycle Bin and users can’t view them. URLs pointing to these adapted images return a 404 error code.
If the original image is restored from the Recycle Bin, the adapted images are accessible again.