Use Batch upload on localhost

[nicke]

Hi!

I run CPG on my own computer, using apache2triad. I'd very much like to use the batch add, but can't figure out how to?

Does anyone have a step-by-step on how to upload a number of pics at the same time? Now I'm using the add files (10 at the time) which is quite awkward...

[kegobeer]

Batch add is the same no matter what server Coppermine is on.  Create a directory in /albums (call it /uploads or something), drop your images in there, then click Batch Add.

[mancool]

Batch add is the same no matter what server Coppermine is on.  Create a directory in /albums (call it /uploads or something), drop your images in there, then click Batch Add.

however, after I upgrade from 1.2.1, it cannot detect my files. How can I fix it?

[kegobeer]

Start by reading the documentation that comes with Coppermine.  You are uploading your files to the /userpics directory, and that isn't allowed.  Coppermine knows that and doesn't look in there when doing a batch add.

There are a lot of posts on this forum about it.  Search and ye shall find them.

[nicke]

After creating a directory /upload in albums, the batch add works just fine.

But - when all the pics are uploaded (and placed in an album) I'd like to clear the upload folder, so that I can then put new pics there, to be batch added.

But if I delete the pics in the /upload folder, they disappear from the album as well? They really shouldn't, since they are put in an album (which is not the upload folder but in the database...??)

[kegobeer]

The files aren't put into the database - they stay on the server.  Actually putting files into a MySQL database is a huge drain on server resources and a really silly idea, IMHO.

You can put as many pictures in the directory as you want - Coppermine knows what images are already in the database and will put checkmarks next to only the new images in the directory.  You don't have to delete the original files in order to upload more.

[Joachim Müller]

Try creating a folder structure with albums/uploads that matches your category/albums structure and ftp-upload new files into new folders - is not a requirement per se, but makes administration a whole lot easier, as well as keeping track of files/uploads.

Joachim

[nicke]

I'd try something like that - since I used the File/URI function earlier, I did not have the "problem" that my pics existed in a number of folders.