Magento 2.2 Product Images Duplicated

Question

I have a lot of SKU's and a lot of SKU's share some pictures.

For eg - Product A, B and C have 2 common photos. When I upload the common photos through the panel, It uploads the same image to the server again and again by adding _1 in the file name.

Also tried using bulk upload but get errors. I don't want this duplicating of photos as I have a lot of SKU's and photos and my server won't be able to handle all that data.

Is there any solution to this?

Answer 1

This is a known core bug in Magento 2.2+

Github issues here:

• https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/14398
• https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/21885

And pull requests here:

• https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/21146
• https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/21855

I'm using the first PR successfully in production, and patched using cweagans/composer-patches after every composer install.

Keep in mind both PRs have limitations and haven't been tested properly.

Answer 2

I was able to fix this issue in Magento 2.3.2 by adding second parameter to uploadMediaFiles method as true in magento/vendor/magento/module-catalog-import-export/Model/Import/Product.php line 1799.

$uploadedFile = $this->uploadMediaFiles($columnImage, true);

You need a preference or a plugin to achieve this.