I am following the instructions in the menalto2piwigo plugin.

I copied the albums over to the galleries folder. [I have a lot of photos, but that shouldn't matter. I did hit a exec_time maximum, which I overcame by increasing it because the server is local and administered by me.]

Then, I synchronized - first in simulated mode. This is when I had to add the space in the regex. Then I did for real and it seemed to work fine. It complained about exif and I had to enable php_exif.dll in my php.ini. All ok, but requiring some searching, but still fine.

Now, I anticipate that I am done. But, I see no thumbnails as well as no pictures at all when I go to view them. By no pictures, I mean that I see the metadata about the picture and the album that it is contained in - all seems to have been imported fine, but the picture is not displayed - it is only a blank box with the picture's name on it - almost like it is formatted for a screen reader for the blind.

So, I thought I have to create thumbnails - something that I have to in Gallery2 as well when "bulk importing" pictures like we did now. I went to Batch Manager, selected all the photos and got it started on "Generate Multiple Size Images". This chugged on for a long time - as an aside, it would be good if this process were independent of the browser window as once I mistakenly opened another webpage in this window while this was going on (instead of in a new tab) and I had to restart from scratch. It finished and still there was nothing.

I then selected only one image and made it generate. This gave me the error that I had mentioned in my earlier post. I have come across someone asking to configure imagick "externally". However, I eschewed it to see how the default worked. It seemingly doesn't. Should I try the external configuration? If so, what should I put in the path - I see examples of /usr/bin. My convert is the system path - do I need to do anything specific?

Please let me know if you need additional details.

Thanks,
Sridhar