I have created a series of albums such as "2012 Cruising", "2011 Cruising" etc and each of these parent albums has many child albums. Now I want to create a master parent album titled "Cruising" and place each of the 2012/2011/etc albums under it. I can't figure out how to do this in 2.4
-- Geoff
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Album->Manage->Move
you can select multiple albums with Ctrl+click
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mistic100 wrote:
Album->Manage->Move
you can select multiple albums with Ctrl+click
None of the albums show up on the virtual album list.
-- Geoff
Last edited by geoffschultz (2012-07-09 12:52:33)
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well, do you use physical albums only ?
if so I don't remind if there is a proper way to move a folder without loosing comments/rates/etc
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mistic100 wrote:
well, do you use physical albums only ?
if so I don't remind if there is a proper way to move a folder without loosing comments/rates/etc
As I just found out in the "How to completely delete an album" thread, I am using Physical albums. I had no idea about the limitations of using them. I'm using them because I need to import hundreds of albums and the only practical way to do that was via FTP.
I have no comments, ratings as of yet as I'm not making this public until I'm ready to switch over.
Now, short of my writing an SQL script to modify the _images table with the correct structure, how would you suggest that I do this?
-- Geoff
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ok if there is no info to keep, just move albums in the filesystem (through FTP) and do a global sync
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mistic100 wrote:
ok if there is no info to keep, just move albums in the filesystem (through FTP) and do a global sync
exacty
and I would like to add, if you want to put these albums virtual, there is [extension by plg] Virtualize (not tested in 2.4)
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mistic100 wrote:
ok if there is no info to keep, just move albums in the filesystem (through FTP) and do a global sync
I have titles and thumbnails defined for hundreds of albums. Will I lose these?
-- Geoff
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geoffschultz wrote:
mistic100 wrote:
ok if there is no info to keep, just move albums in the filesystem (through FTP) and do a global sync
I have titles and thumbnails defined for hundreds of albums. Will I lose these?
-- Geoff
if you manually changed that, i'm afraid the answer is yes
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flop25 wrote:
mistic100 wrote:
ok if there is no info to keep, just move albums in the filesystem (through FTP) and do a global sync
exacty
and I would like to add, if you want to put these albums virtual, there is [extension by plg] Virtualize (not tested in 2.4)
How do I install an extension that isn't tested for the version that I'm on? I only see plugins that appear to be tested for 2.4?
-- Geoff
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if want to test :
[extension by plg] Virtualize there is a big orange Download button ; then put in /plugins
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I manually installed Virtualize and ran it (which was very scary, but I had backups of everything) and it failed with the following error:
Warning: [mysql error 1054] Unknown column 'has_high' in 'field list' SELECT path AS oldpath, date_available, has_high, tn_ext, id FROM piwigo_images WHERE path NOT LIKE './upload/%' ; in /usr/www/users/gschultz/GeoffSchultz/photos/include/dblayer/functions_mysql.inc.php on line 770 Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/www/users/gschultz/GeoffSchultz/photos/include/dblayer/functions_mysql.inc.php on line 153 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/www/users/gschultz/GeoffSchultz/photos/include/dblayer/functions_mysql.inc.php:769) in /usr/www/users/gschultz/GeoffSchultz/photos/include/page_header.php on line 105
I don't think that it made it far enough to modify anything as all of my images appear to be there and are still located in ./galleries/
-- Geoff
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Yes that's normal... I didn't know how the plugin works, but now I can tell you it will need a serious update : many database entries disappeared in 2.4
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Last week I added about 200 albums and 3200 images. These covered about 9 years of sailing and the albums were associated with top level albums titled like "2012 Cruising", etc. I added one year at a time via FTP and synchronized them.
Since then I've been organizing sub-albums and sorting, selecting thumbnails, creating more descriptive names and providing descriptions.
Today I made a backup of the database before attempting the Virtualize. When that didn't work, I restored the database just to make sure that nothing got corrupted.
I then noted that I was missing 2 sub-albums from 2007 and FTPed the directories/images to the .galleries/2007_Cruising directory & ran a sync. To my surprise it said that it was going to add all of the images and albums to the database! I actually let it do that and it duplicated all of the files/albums. It created duplicate "20xx Cruising" top level albums and added the "new" photos under them.
What's going on? I've restored the database back to what it was prior to the Sync, but that doesn't solve my problem. The directory structure of ./galleries seems to be fine. I have many more albums that I need to add. How am I going to do this?
-- Geoff
Last edited by geoffschultz (2012-07-12 17:24:27)
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O_O wow ! how unlucky you are !
Could you create another thread please ? thx
go back to your backup first
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