Automatic directory management failure

  • othalan

    (@othalan)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    I just updated to NextGen Gallery 2.0.0 and am very annoyed with the automatic directory management in the new version.

    I have thousands of pictures sorted into hundreds of galleries and dozens of albums. I upload each gallery into a directory on the web server using scp (command-line version of sftp without an interactive shell) then import the directory into NextGen Gallery. I have these directories sorted into subdirectories for ease of file management. In previous versions of NextGen Gallery this would result in the gallery where I uploaded images being used as the location for images and that would never change unless I manually updated the gallery path in each gallery.

    This was perfect because I could very easily synchronize gallery directories with my laptop using an automated script.

    After updating to version 2.0.0 everything is now broken. Here are the specific problems:

    * NextGen Gallery creates a copy of my images in its own location based on the image path instead of using the import directory.

    * If I change the image path then all galleries are moved to this location instead of staying where they were originally.

    * As a result of the above, subdirectories can no longer be used.

    * I updated my image path to a new default image directory. When I did this, ALL galleries have this new location listed…however only galleries in the old image path were actually moved to the new location…..not galleries which existed in other subdirectories.

    * As a result of this I have hundreds of galleries in the wrong location on the web server.

    * I must either move around directories to match the organization forced on my by NextGen Gallery or I must edit every gallery to move the path back to the correct location.

    I have reverted the installation to version 1.9.13 and will begin fixing the file paths.

    Is it possible to get better control over the image paths used in NextGen Gallery? I would prefer the exact same behavior as the old version.

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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  • Thread Starter othalan

    (@othalan)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Two additional problems:

    * Filenames and Directories were changed to all lower case.

    * The thumbnail directory was not created which meant that no thumbnails were created.

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