Unreferenced images in outputs

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Pernice
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Unreferenced images in outputs

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After resizing images in topics, Flare leaves the original unreferenced (unused) images in the output Images folder. This makes the size of the output unnecessarily large and is causing problems for our developers who have to manually strip these out before building the software, in order to keep the size of the software down.

Here are the steps:

1. Resize an image in a topic (by dragging its handle or by specifying dimensions in Edit Image > Size). For example, "pic.png".
2. Generate the HTML5 ouptut. Flare creates a resized version. For example, "pic_458x962.png". Fine. But it also includes the original - unused - "pic.png" in the *output* folder. This is causing problems (as described above). Obviously, it's good to keep the original pics in the source images folder, but why output them if they're not used?

I've tried checking the box "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target" in the target properties, but this didn't work for such images.

Does anyone know how to prevent this happening, or of a way to delete these unused images from within Flare?
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