Configuration reference All settings are reached through the Options button at the top right of every Media Organizer view. This page lists every option with its default. The options are divided into seven tabs. The defaults are deliberately cautious and suitable for most websites. Change only what you have understood — especially in the tab security & retention. Scanning Here you switch the search areas on and off. All of them are active by default. Option Default Meaning Articles and categories Yes Articles (intro/full text, article image) and categories. Modules Yes Module HTML, module settings and folder entries. Scan version history Yes Count hits in the version history as referenced. Template files Yes Images hard-coded in CSS and template files. Extension profiles Yes Third-party extensions with a profile. Deep scan Yes Catch-all scan across all database tables. Active media types Image Which types are inventoried: image, document, video, audio, font, archive, other. Available profiles — Display only: which profiles exist. Scan – advanced Option Default Meaning Root directories empty Which media adapters are inventoried. Empty = the default adapter local-images. For media under media/, create a directory there in the media component and enter the adapter here. Excluded paths empty One entry per line. A folder path excludes the folder including subfolders; glob patterns such as *.tmp work too. Protected core folders administrator, api, bin, cache, cli, components, includes, installation, jimgo_quarantine, language, layouts, libraries, modules, plugins, templates, tmp Never recorded. Protection against deleting system files. media/ is deliberately not among them. Deep scan: excluded tables empty In addition to the built-in exclusions. Media-free extensions empty Components without media references. They count as covered. Detected media-free extensions — Display only: extensions already verified. Count the trash Yes Items in the trash reference their files as well. Count unpublished items Yes Unpublished items likewise. Count module folders Yes Treat folder parameters as folder references. Custom field media types media, imagelist, mediajce, mediafile, acfgallery, acfupload, acfdownloadbutton, acfhtml5audio, acfvideo Which custom field types contain media. Used but not searched ⇒ deleting stays blocked. Normalise Unicode (NFC) Yes Unifies umlauts before comparing. Leave it on when in doubt. Known website URLs empty One URL per line. Absolute URLs on these hosts count as local. Security & retention This tab controls when deleting is allowed at all. Every relaxation here lowers your safety net. Option Default Meaning Retention: images 30 days For this long a file of this type has to sit in quarantine before it may be deleted. 0 = never released automatically. The period is a precondition, not a trigger — after it expires, nothing happens by itself. Retention: documents 180 days Retention: video 90 days Retention: audio 90 days Retention: fonts 0 (never) Retention: archives / other 180 days Require a super user for deleting Yes Restrict deleting for good to super users. Maximum scan age 7 days An older scan cannot authorise deleting. Minimum number of consecutive scans 2 A file has to have been a candidate this many times in a row before it may be deleted. Validity of the confirmation token 300 seconds How long a confirmation token stays valid. Override the deletion block No Super users only. Allows deleting despite incomplete coverage. Is recorded. Reason for the override empty Mandatory reason, stored along with it. Quarantine root jimgo_quarantine Where files are moved to. Protected with deny files on first use. Do not use the cache folder — it gets emptied. A warning appears if it is inside the web root. Optimisation Thresholds for the report — they only decide what is reported: Maximum file size 500 KB Larger files are flagged. 0 = off. Maximum edge length 2500 px Larger images are flagged. 0 = off. Outdated formats bmp, tif, tiff Are flagged as outdated. Modernise from 150 KB Raster images above this count as WebP/AVIF candidates. 0 = off. Raster formats to modernise jpg, jpeg, png, gif Which formats could change. How optimisation works: Image library Automatic Prefers Imagick, falls back to GD. Maximum edge length (px) 2560 Scale down from this edge. Never scales up. 0 = off. JPEG quality 82 1–100. Around 80 is a good compromise. PNG compression 8 0–9, lossless. Higher = smaller and slower. WebP quality 82 When the source is already WebP. Remove metadata Yes Remove EXIF, ICC and comments. Minimum saving 10 % Below that the original stays untouched. Maximum source pixels 0 (automatic) Skip images that are too large, so that decoding stays within memory. 0 derives the limit from the PHP memory limit — recommended. Images per step 5 How many images are optimised per request. Editor export quality 82 Default quality for images from the editor. Backup location jimgo_optimize_backup Where originals are backed up before optimisation. Is protected. External optimisers (optional, see the chapter of its own): Use external optimisers Yes Uses pngquant, oxipng, jpegoptim, cwebp, gifsicle where available. Falls back automatically when a tool is missing. Optimiser directory empty Empty = search the system PATH. Nothing is downloaded or shipped along. Available optimisers — Display only: what was detected. JPEG / PNG / WebP / GIF optimiser Automatic Which tool per format. For PNG: pngquant is lossy (the biggest saving), oxipng and OptiPNG are lossless. PNG minimum / target quality 60 / 82 pngquant limits. If the minimum quality is not reached, the PNG stays unchanged. Reports & view Entries per page 50 Default page size of all lists. The selection in the page footer takes precedence. Hide providers from broken references history Their hits never appear as a broken reference. History tables #__history Deep scan hits in them do not count as a broken reference. Performance Files per scan step 200 How many files one scan step records and checks. Smaller = shorter steps, needed with a tight time limit. See Large websites and tight time limits. Records per scan step 500 How many articles, modules and other records one step searches for references. Maximum time per scan step 10 s Safety net: a step ends after this time at the latest, even if the configured amount has not been reached. 0 disables the time limit. Database chunk (rows) 500 How many rows the scan reads at once. Smaller = gentler on memory. Keep scan detail data 2 For how many of the last scans the occurrence details are kept. Only the latest scan is ever displayed anyway; higher values grow the database without showing you more. The scan overview is kept regardless. Calculate file hashes Yes Needed for duplicates and to detect changes. Switching it off makes the scan minimally faster — and the deletion gate blinder. Cache thumbnails Yes Creates scaled-down previews under media/com_jimgo/thumbs. Requires PHP GD. Thumbnail size 360 px Longest edge of the thumbnails. Permissions The standard Joomla tab. See Permissions, export and privacy. Applies to version 1.2.0. Deutsche Fassung