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#1 2016-08-03 23:49:06

khorton
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2016-05-29
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Solved - Unable to sync

Hello,

I installed Piwigo today, and uploaded a few photos using the web uploader, created an album and put the photos in two sub albums.

I am not able to have Piwigo sync any of the metadata from the exif in the JPGs.  I can see the data I need using exiftool before I upload the photos, but none of it syncs.  The creation date is blank, as are the latitude and longitude.  I have selected Tools->Synchronize, selected "directories + files", "even already synchronized photos", deselected "Simulation" and selected "Search in sub-albums".  The results always show that 0 photos are synchronized, and none of the metadata shows up in Piwigo.

I copied include/config_default.inc.php to include/config.inc.php, and I edited config.inc.php as follows:

--- config_default.inc.php    2016-07-07 22:06:22.000000000 -0700
+++ config.inc.php    2016-08-03 14:00:10.056260002 -0700
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@

// use_iptc: Use IPTC data during database synchronization with files
// metadata
-$conf['use_iptc'] = false;
+$conf['use_iptc'] = true;

// use_iptc_mapping : in which IPTC fields will Piwigo find image
// information ? This setting is used during metadata synchronisation. It
@@ -361,7 +361,8 @@
   'Make',
   'Model',
   'DateTimeOriginal',
-  'COMPUTED;ApertureFNumber'
+  'COMPUTED;ApertureFNumber',
+  'ImageDescription'
   );

// use_exif: Use EXIF data during database synchronization with files
@@ -370,7 +371,8 @@

// use_exif_mapping: same behaviour as use_iptc_mapping
$conf['use_exif_mapping'] = array(
-  'date_creation' => 'DateTimeOriginal'
+  'date_creation' => 'DateTimeOriginal',
+  'comment' => 'ImageDescription'
   );

// allow_html_in_metadata: in case the origin of the photo is unsecure (user
=================================================

I'm not sure if there is something horribly borked in the installation (installed via Softaculous by my web host), or whether I have something misconfigured, or whether it is pure user error.

Are there any logs where I can find any errors?

Any advice is appreciated.  If I don't figure this out in the next day or so, I'll try a manual installation of Piwigo.

Thanks,

Kevin

Piwigo version: 2.8.2
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.5.50-38.0
Piwigo URL: http://www.kilohotel.com/piwigo

Last edited by khorton (2016-08-04 21:18:59)

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#2 2016-08-04 06:40:42

ddtddt
Piwigo Team
Quetigny - France
2007-07-27
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Re: Solved - Unable to sync

Hi :-)

It's better no change Piwigo file
Il you vant change config use local config ;-)


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#3 2016-08-04 11:58:58

khorton
Member
2016-05-29
4

Re: Solved - Unable to sync

ddtddt wrote:

Hi :-)

It's better no change Piwigo file
Il you vant change config use local config ;-)

I had misread the instructions in include/config_default.inc.php.  Thanks for pointing out my error.

I moved include/config.inc.php to local/config/config.inc.php.  Unfortunately, that did not fix my problem. I still am unable to sync metadata.

I note that the top right of the Synchronize page has "Database Synchronization With Files: ./Galleries/ ?".  But, I have a virtual album, so there are no files in ./Galleries/.  I tried clicking on the "?" following "/Galleries/", but that produced an error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/khorton/public_html/piwigo/plugins/rv_gmaps/qsearch.inc.php on line 141".  I'm not sure if that is relevant to the sync problem or not.

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#4 2016-08-04 21:18:38

khorton
Member
2016-05-29
4

Re: Solved - Unable to sync

I blew away the piwigo installed automagically via Softaculous and did a manual installation.  After reading the French language documentation, I decided to try SFTP to upload the images instead of the batch uploader that uses flash. 

Now sync works.  I still have some fiddling to do to extract all the metadata I want from IPTC and get it in the correct fields, but I found a few hints in the forum that may work.  I'll post a new thread if I have problems extracting the metadata.

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