two stores, 1 image directory

[Willisski]

We are running 2wo websites. They are two distinct database and licenses. Two stores. The only thing that they have in common is the product images.
Question: product images. Is there anyway to use/share the asset/productimage directory.
I would like to only have one asset/productimage folder that both sites reference for products. Currently we have over 18000 images and it takes forever to sync.

Thanks for any suggestions
Greg

[jmestep]

You might be able to map a drive from one site to the other site's folder. A hosted did that for me to an external hard drive for storing digital files-- mapped it to the App_Data/Digital Goods folder.

[Willisski]

I have all of the images mapped on one drive locally like you describe. Is that possible at the server level?

[nickc]

You could symlink the images folder from a common location into both sites:
- on Server 2008, use "mklink /d source_folder_path target_folder_path"
- on Server 2003, download the sysinternals tool "junction" from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96768.aspx

Basically, the NTFS version of "ln -s".