Hey,

I just pushed v0.3.2, which removes the old maintain.class.php (table creation now lives in admin.php) and ensures the settings table exists after install. This should hopefully let you activate the plugin without errors. Please note that table is not dropped after uninstall of the plugin, this has to be done manually. I am already working on a proper long-term fix. In the meantime, please give 0.3.2 a try and let me know how it goes!

Many thanks!
Hendrik

Hmmm, that's strange. Can you try to set chmod 777 for the whole folder, including subfolders and files?

Thanks, this definitely helped a lot. I published a new version that hopefully resolves this issue. Maybe you can test this once more. Thanks a lot!

What I've noticed so far:

- when selecting the root album (Albums), I get this for Step 4 (checksums):

4. Calculate missing checksums
No valid album selected.
No valid album selected.

- similarly, I'm not sure the root album is acting like I expect, with "search in subalbums" enabled. when I ran it initially like that, it said there were no thumbnails to generate:

3. Generate thumbnails
Scanning for missing thumbnails...
Total thumbnails to generate: 0
Step completed: 3. Generate thumbnails for 0 thumbnails.

But then when I ran it again, this time selecting a sub-album, it found thumbnails to generate. Oddly, it DOES work for adding new photos (Step 1):

1. Sync new files and metadata
Synchronization completed. New files: 2 (before: 197, after: 199)

2. Generate video posters
Scanning for missing video posters...
0 file(s) to process (0 missing posters, 0 missing thumbnails)
Step completed: 2. Generate video posters for 0 videos.

3. Generate thumbnails
Scanning for missing thumbnails...
Total thumbnails to generate: 0
Step completed: 3. Generate thumbnails for 0 thumbnails.

4. Calculate missing checksums
No valid album selected.
No valid album selected.

6. Reassign smart albums (SmartAlbums not active)
No information found in result block.

Workflow finished

Notice 2 new photos were added by Step 1, but then Steps 3 and 4 didn't do anything.

- I don't have SmartAlbums installed, so Step 6 is grayed out, but it's checked so it looks like the step still runs, is that expected?

6. Reassign smart albums (SmartAlbums not active)
No information found in result block.

Thanks again for your hard work on this!

Last edited by windracer (2025-06-15 21:41:16)

No problem, this is a great addition!

If it's okay, I might try to look at how you added the album selector field (to type in an album and search). I've had an old issue with my physical photo move plug-in where I could never figure out how to get the album selector on the individual photo page to look like the one in batch manager ([Github] Piwigo-physical_photo_move issue #27) and what you've done might be a good soluution to that.

Hi,

Thanks again for your detailed testing - your feedback really helps move things forward.

I just released version 0.3.4 (see https://github.com/HendrikSchoettle/Alb … tag/v0.3.4), which should address most of the recent issues.

In particular:

Selecting the root album now behaves as expected: if "search in subalbums" is enabled, files in subfolders should be correctly included. This should resolve the issues you mentioned in Steps 3 and 4.

All sync state is now cleanly reset after an aborted run, preventing accidental restarts in live mode.

Steps for VideoJS or SmartAlbums will now fully disable when the corresponding plugin is inactive.

If you get a chance, please give this version a test run.

One quick note:
If you're still seeing greyed-out checkboxes for SmartAlbums or VideoJS even though those plugins are not installed, it's due to leftover data in the database. You can fix this either by manually dropping the album_pilot_settings table, or by installing version 0.3.4, uninstalling it once vis the built-in Piwigo feature (which now removes the table), and then reinstalling it.

Also, just checking - is the HEIC image support issue still something you're running into?

Thanks once more - I really appreciate your help!

Perfect, thank you for the quick turnaround.

Of course, I'd be happy to publish it as an official plug-in. However, I would want to be sure that it covers all errors and edge cases we have encountered so far.

I'm looking forward to your feedback.

@all: If anyone else has tested this and could briefly let me know if there are any issues at all, that would be much appreciated.

I just realized when you were asking me about HEIC you were probably referring to my earlier issue with thumbnails for files that had HEIC in their name. Those were originally HEIC files that I had converted to JPG that were somehow missing resolution info in Piwigo which was causing the problem. Once I corrected the original images, that fixed that problem with AlbumPilot.

I did run into a few errors testing in my primary Piwigo gallery (which is of course much larger than my test site). First was this one:

? Invalid response (not valid JSON):
{"processed":1,"generated":1,"offset":1,"done":false,"total":19973,"log":["\ud83d\udd0d Scanning for missing thumbnails...","\ud83e\uddee Total thumbnails to generate: 19973",{"type":"progress","step":"thumbnail","index":1,"total":19973,"percent":0,"image_id":"4","simulate":false,"path":".\/galleries\/events\/Go-Karting\/IMG_1248.JPG","thumb_type":"thumb"}],"summary":""}

Fatal error:  Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes in /usr/local/piwigo/include/dblayer/functions_mysqli.inc.php:132
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/piwigo/include/dblayer/functions_mysqli.inc.php(132): mysqli->query()
#1 /usr/local/piwigo/include/functions_session.inc.php(161): pwg_query()
#2 /usr/local/piwigo/include/pwgsession.class.php(21): pwg_session_write()
#3 [internal function]: PwgSession->write()
#4 [internal function]: session_write_close()
#5 {main}
  thrown in /usr/local/piwigo/include/dblayer/functions_mysqli.inc.php on line 132

That was running on my "Events" album which has a lot of sub-albums. I tried running it just on the "Go-Karting" album and it created all thumbnails successfully so not sure what "max_allowed_packet" means.

Second was this one:

? Invalid response (not valid JSON):
{"processed":1,"generated":1,"offset":1,"done":false,"total":44970,"log":["\ud83d\udd0d Scanning for missing thumbnails...","\ud83e\uddee Total thumbnails to generate: 44970",{"type":"progress","step":"thumbnail","index":1,"total":44970,"percent":0,"image_id":"392","simulate":false,"path":"galleries\/events\/holidays\/christmas\/xmas2011\/pwg_representative\/fun-with-security-cameras.jpg","thumb_type":"medium"}],"summary":""}

Fatal error:  Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: MySQL server has gone away in /usr/local/piwigo/include/dblayer/functions_mysqli.inc.php:132
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/piwigo/include/dblayer/functions_mysqli.inc.php(132): mysqli->query()
#1 /usr/local/piwigo/include/functions_session.inc.php(161): pwg_query()
#2 /usr/local/piwigo/include/pwgsession.class.php(21): pwg_session_write()
#3 [internal function]: PwgSession->write()
#4 [internal function]: session_write_close()
#5 {main}
  thrown in /usr/local/piwigo/include/dblayer/functions_mysqli.inc.php on line 132

I'm pretty sure MySQL (actually I'm running MariaDB) didn't "go away" so some sort of timeout? Maybe I need to tweak my PHP settings to allow long-running things like AlbumPilot?

I'm obviously missing a lot of thumbnails so once I can use AlbumPilot to handle these initial "bulky" operations, future runs should be a lot smaller.

I'll update to 0.3.5 as well and get testing! ;-)

Last edited by windracer (2025-06-17 14:48:28)