Hi blueharmony and welcome to Piwigo forums,

As far as I know, users switching from Menalto to Piwigo did not use any automatic conversion tool. Most of the time, they restarted their gallery from scratch. If your lucky enough and have your title/description/tags written in the photo with IPTC metadata, then you can just use the synchronization feature and get everything back in Piwigo.

Having a conversion tool from Menalto Gallery to Piwigo would be useful since we see more and more users coming from Menalto Gallery. If you plan to create such a tool, let us know and we will help as much as possible.

Necromancing an old thread here just to add a "me too". I am looking for a replacement for Gallery3 and it would be ideal to be able to import the image files and metadata from the G3 database.

hello

If you look 5 topics bellow you will see a reference to [extension by plg] Menalto2Piwigo

it can do nothing for broken links after migration though

Look at revision 2.6.c description
it works for both

ps: if it has to work with only one version, it would be explicitely written

First, THANKS for the menalto2piwigo plugin. We need a mechanism to move out of gallery.

However, I seem to be having a problem. To set the stage:
- linux
- php5
- gallery3

I copied from gallery3/albums to piwigo/galleries.
   - no problems
Ran Synchronize
   - some errors, apparently due to parenthesis, commas, ...  -- I'll fix those later
   - vast majority of albums seemed to import
Ran menalto2piwigo
   - received several Warning and Notice messages (no errors):
            Notice: Undefined variable: cover_id in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 439
            Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 439
            Notice: Undefined variable: image_updates in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 557
            Notice: Undefined variable: cat_updates in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 566
            Notice: Undefined variable: album_thumbs in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 575
            Notice: Undefined variable: comment_inserts in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 579
            Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 579
            Notice: Undefined variable: comment_inserts in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 581
            Notice: Undefined variable: image_tag_inserts in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 619
            Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 619
            Notice: Undefined variable: image_tag_inserts in /usr/local/piwigo/piwigo/plugins/menalto2piwigo/admin.php on line 621

   - then I got the big green check mark and "Information data registered in database"
   - BTW - this command ran very fast. A couple seconds at most.
Returned to gallery
   - appropriate albums (directories) are present but no pictures are visible
Return to Admin->Batch Manager
   - did not take any action in Batch Manager -- just looking at page
   - batch manager says "No photo in the current set."
Went to phpMyadmin and looked at piwigo tables in MySQL
   - piwigo_images - 0 rows
   - piwigo_image_category - 16996 rows (approx equal to number of pictures that should have imported)
   - piwigo_tags - 6672 rows (perhaps equial to Gallery3 tags -- not sure of count)
   - other tables are zero or small numbers

It seems like stuff did not get fully imported. Thoughts? Next steps?

I just tried this today. The G3 import script does work, but it found 300 spam comments (that didn't show up in the G3 GUI anywhere) and added them to various photos. The Piwigo GUI does not allow mass editing, only 10 hand-checked boxes at a time to delete, so PHP MyAdmin is the answer there. I would have blown them all away but some were identifying family members in old photos.

Still mysteries, like why I need to have the same public name as login name; this is the Wordpress mindset, which roughly goes just use a good password. But in the next breath enable two-factor, when we just gave half the login away. I can get around that in WP, how do I do it in Piwigo? Reading the logs in my 10-year old WP install, I see many tries and no one has guessed my login yet, much less the password. What is so hard to understand about this? And now I've hidden the login, so scripts just bounce where there is no door. Don't play fair and there is no game.

Meanwhile I copied the var/albums to Zenphoto's /albums folder and it immediately sorted them nd displayed them perfectly, although without comments of course. If you only want the photos this is fastest and easiest.

And why is Piwigo so comparatively glacial? I'm trying them both side by side, their own databases on the same server.

Not hating, just noticing and wondering. Still installed. Appreciate the effort to make the importer, for one.