[cpg1.4.x]: Adv. Menalto Gallery To Coppermine Converter

[pontello]

It's work for gallery up to 45-50 pics
After that the server goes time out.
I think that with a scripting restart every 45 pics it can works.
I can't import my gallery...

[Aditya Mooley]

Can you paste the last few messages displayed on your browser before the server timeout?

[jponeill70]

Hi.  I see this thread got a little stale but I'm in the same position as the folks who are having the

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Album created
Importing images ...

Unable to insert file pic1.JPG. Skipping...

Unable to insert file pic2.JPG. Skipping...


Problem.  I have a rather large album so I started from scratch and tried to import just a small, individual album but get the same error.  I wonder if this is the problem:

In my config file for Gallery my SQL Type is this:

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$storeConfig['type'] = 'mysqlt';

when I ran initially the G2 Importer I got a SQL DB only message and so I tried to cheat by removing the 't' from the "type".  I presume this is causing the problem.  I'm not sure I understand what the 't' means in the $storeConfig['type'] setting.

Thanks for any help!
JPO

[Nicko1981]

Yep; exactly the same for me; would be really good to find a workaround for this; as re-uploading all the photos from my Gallery2 will take absolutely ages.

Would also be good to work out how to maintain the album nesting from Gallery.

Cheers

Nicko

[Aditya Mooley]

@JPO - PM me the FTP details of your site and I will try to find out the problem whenever I get time.

[Nicko1981]

Did anyone have any luck with this?

[Aditya Mooley]

Not really. JPO never sent me complete details to check the exact problem. For me, everything is still running correctly on my local testbed. So, can't really tell the problem unless I get to see/debug the issue where it is occuring.

[Nigel_Aves]

just wanted to drop a line to let you know that the converter worked for me and saved just a ton of work (approx 3500 photographs)! Thank You.

Two small enhancement you might like to consider.

Convert to Categories (On or Off) - If an album has embedded albums then it might make sense to convert the top level to a Coppermine Category and automatically assign it's sub-albums to it. This would mimic the hierarchy in Gallery2.

The chances are this would only be run on a brand new installation.

Use gallery2 picture sizes (On or Off) - This would look at the theme settings for picture size and use those for thumbs / intermediate and full size.

That said. This really cut down on my work to do.

Once again, thank you.

Nigel.

[Nicko1981]

Aditya, could you tell me what details you will need form me in order to access my system to try and work out this probelm; I'll provide them via PM and than hopefully we can get a solution to the problems that a few of us are having.

Thanks


Nicko

[jcranfill]

Thanks for this!  Just used it to go from Gallery 2.3 to Coppermine 1.4.25 with no trouble.  FYI, My gallery was installed via Fantastico and had a DB type of 'mysqlt' - afte removing the T, it worked great!

[Skull72]

Hopefully this is the correct place to ask this question, forgive me if it isn't.

Will there be a ver 1.5x converter from Gallery2 ?

I tried to run this one, and it does show me the galleries from the database, but does nothing when you click import.


Thanks

[Aditya Mooley]

Hello,

Yes, this is the right place to ask. I haven't tested the converter with cpg 1.5 yet. Will try to do that soon and come up with a working version.

Thanks.

[chking]

I am wondering if any further work has been done with a 1.5 converter? I am a recent convert to Coppermine, with a lot of data in old Gallery2 databases, and this project is exactly what I need. Thanks for the hard work!

[mbuild]

Good afternoon. When I try to import albums in Russian from Gallery2, a window appears with a list of albums with the characters instead of names. The problem with the encoding, as I understand. How can I fix it?