#1 2025-07-07 01:55:20

jwd3ca@gmail.com
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2025-07-05
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New to piwigo, need help

Hello/Hi/Greetings,

So I used menalto to migrate from my old gallery3 to piwigo. It seems to have worked pretty well, I've now got a single album called 'albums' containing the 8 sub-albums that were in my gallery3:

albums |
             | a
             | b
             .
             .
             .
               h

The 'albums' album is what I see when I open my site. But I really want to see the sub-albums, not the single 'albums' album.
I've tried Albums--> Manage to drag-and-drop the subalbums into the parent 'albums' album, but nothing happens. I've tried setting the parent of one of the subs to 'Root', but that does nothing, still see the single 'albums' on home page.

Could it have something to do with virtual vs physical albums? (which I don't really understand yet, I think I would like them all to be physical)


Any pointers appreciated. Thanks!


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#2 2025-07-07 03:58:46

windracer
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Re: New to piwigo, need help

It's been a loooong time since I converted from Menalto Gallery3 to Piwigo but I'm guessing these are physical albums ... so if you look in your Piwigo install folder, there's a folder called "galleries" and under that there's probably a folder called "albums" and then under that the other sub-folders/albums.

So two options:

#1

physically move the folders (at the OS-level) up to the "root" album (which is the galleries folder in the piwigo installation folder) and then do a re-sync to update piwigo's database accordingly; the problem with this is that if you have a lot of metadata about these images (descriptions, tags, etc.) that you manually entered, that info will be lost during a sync (piwigo will "remove" the images in the old locations and "add" them in the new)

To work around that, option

#2

install my [extension by windracer] Physical Photo Move extension which will let you move the albums to the root level and preserve all the metadata.

Good luck!

Last edited by windracer (2025-07-07 03:59:47)

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#3 2025-07-07 04:32:35

jwd3ca@gmail.com
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Re: New to piwigo, need help

Perfect! (your plugin) Thanks for the quick response!

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