Images Randomly Being Deleted

When I delete my catalog and re-upload the catalog file via Easy Populate, product images are being randomly deleted as well. Is there a setting that controls this? I really do not understand it at all. It does not delete all of the product images ... but the same product images are deleted from each folder (large, small and images folders).

Someone mentioned something the other day about a delete images feature in Easy Populate ...

However, I have no idea what it is nor how it works ... :unsure:

I've had that problem for a year now and it's still going on. We're on our 3rd host in that amount of time. I have a thread here from last year: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91892

I tested deleting a category on someone else's zen install and it was fine. As far as I can tell it's just us. New sites, old sites, different hosts. :cry:

I'm just used to having to re-upload when I delete categories. We use a main image directory and then have subaccounts share the files. Even deleting a category in a sub website whose images folder is "virtual" deletes the image from the main site.

I just did it again: othersite.com is a subdir on the server under mainsite.com. Both have zen installs. I deleted a category in othersite.com and the images are now gone from mainsite.com/images. ALL of the subdomains are missing the images, and browsing to mainsite.com/images/image.jpg will show nothing. The files are gone