Attention
If your Photo Cart is suddenly getting a 500 error or only displaying a blank page then you or your hosting company has updated the PHP (programming language) to PHP 7 which Photo Cart is not compatible with (and will not be compatible with) mainly because of the removal of the my_sql functions which are replaced with my_sqli functions.
You would need to have the PHP version downgraded to 5.6 in order for Photo Cart to work. If downgrading the PHP doesn't work then you may have to update Photo Cart to the last version of 7. Download Photo Cart 7 upgrade files. Upgrade instructions.
Photo Cart was retired in 2015. Check out Sytist.
Removing Originals To Save Server Space
BTW Dave, any way to have it not set the gallery to Not Active after it shrinks it? I always forget and the galleries stay offline for a while until I randomly notice one day.
The reason deactivation is tied to deleting the Display Image is that the Display Image is needed to "view" the Gallery (which is active so it's still viewable). As a safety precaution, when the Display Image is deleted (the brute force option which also deactivates the Gallery), the remaining thumbnail is also used as a "safety valve" Display Image to prevent errors inside the Photo Cart Admin.
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