Hi

I'm completely new to Piwigo, just started a few days ago, but I was struggling with this same issue. My pictures are also organized in folders by date. Im self hosting Piwigo on my own home Linux server so I have full access to it. So what I have done is to create a symlink for the Piwigo "galleries" folder to my picture folder. After synchronization Piwigo now has all my pictures in an album named after my pictures folder and with sub albums by date.

I have  gone ahead and created albums in Piwigo for how I want to display my pictures e.g. family, abstracts, street photography, flowers etc I'm now tagging all my pictures with these album named and moving them to those albums from within Piwigo. That way my original images organized by date are never going to be changed by Piwigo.

So far it seems like it will work fine. Id be interested in how you solve the issue. I plan on doing a detailed write up on what am doing, just to get some advice from the experts here.

landyvlad wrote:

Emk wrote:

I plan on doing a detailed write up on what am doing, just to get some advice from the experts here.

Contributions of that kind are every welcome :)

I did explain everything here:

https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=29878