Image management in any content or article

[scubabyss]

Hi,
It seems to me that on the long term, image management can become a pain. Article or any other contain might be deleted and the images that are linked in these deletes article remain in the Image folder.
Of course someone could decide to create a folder per article and therefore delete the image in the folder as well as the folder when the article is deleted.

Is there a better way in Joomla such as to list all orphan images regardless of the type of content, in a similar way as DocMan lists the orphan files in Backend?

Have you heard about such image management component ?

Thank for your help

[jcms]

see this:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... lery/13762

[nearadmin]

Or, perhaps, generate a list of images (files & pictures) in use on the website. Not sure is SIGE will do that.

[scubabyss]

Agreed, SIGE will be of no help, but anyway thanks for the suggestion. Many images integrated in articles are not coming from an image gallery. They are just added with the image tool of the editor from the images directory.

I am pretty sure that such tool does not exist. It should be part of the CMS as a basic maintenance tool. A workaround is to create a subdirectory per article in order to know what you could deleted when deleting an article. That's awful!

[nearadmin]

I envision a query to the database but that, unfortunately, is beyond my skill level. Any database gurus have a suggestion?