thumbnail and medium file generation

[mathfeel]

I know that coppermine is suppose to take care of generating those files on the fly. However, with some shared host company (I'll point finger here: bluehost), running convert a lot counts against your CPU quota. This is especially a problem in batch upload where even if the original size is small, a large amount of photo would still be bad.

So, is it possible to do convert off line, adhering to the thumb_ and normal_ prefix set in config and in batch-add or would coppermine attempts to run convert anyway even if those files exist??

[Joachim Müller]

Yes, you can generate the thumbs and intermediate images on your client as well and FTP upload all files. Then batch-add your stuff. Read up the tutorial "Batch-resizing pics with Irfan View" on the Tutorials. Just make sure to respect naming conventions (prefixes for thumbs and intermediate images).
On the batch-add screen, coppermine will not attempt to create thumbs and/or intermediates of correspondingly named files already exist.