rkalla

Backie,

So CST hooks into the “Add an Image” dialog and watches only the uploads or also the crunched files as well?

I am not familiar with the internals of Add Linked Images plugin, but does that use the same mechanism?

So is the manual sync I performed using the side-bar in CST the correct way to mirror my entire library (probably 30k images) to S3?

Backie,

I appreciate the reply. I really need a tool that sees the raw contents of the /uploads dir and syncs it and doesn’t exclusively rely on the media library inside of WP.

From what I can tell the inclusion of scaled instances of images (e.g. car-150×150.jpg for small and car-500×500.jpg for large) that WP makes during it’s “crunching” phase are all ignored.

I am also using “Add Linked Images to Gallery” plugin which makes the lives of my other writers easier as it pulls in externally linked images directly into the media library on-post and automatically adjusts all img src=”” links to point at the local copies.

I don’t know if CDN Sync Tool would run late enough in the post-chain to catch these linked images and sync them; from what I saw during testing today the answer is “no” and I ended up with stories that have more than half the image links broken.

I’ll be the first to admit this is sort of a “worst case” scenario for a CDN Syncing Tool, but I’m hoping the additional details will help you in it’s development.