Title: Errors on bulk folder-structured media import
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Errors on bulk folder-structured media import

 *  [CMSSwitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmsswitch/)
 * (@cmsswitch)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-on-bulk-folder-structured-media-import/)
 * Hello!
    Thanks for this profoundly useful tool. I’m using it to pull prices, 
   product descriptions and menu item ingredients from metadata on food images imported
   to a restaurant menu and finding it able to accomplish easily what many other
   plugins I’ve tried cannot address. However, it’s failing to import metadata and
   it’s spitting up errors when used in conjunction with the popular plugin [Eazyest Gallery](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/eazyest-gallery),
   which was my image display tool of choice for its flexibility, folder-structured
   imports and for what appears to be a fidelity to the standard WP media approach.(
   This last point I’m uncertain about, as I have much more familiarity with other
   software than WP.)
 * I’m not writing in the expectation that you somehow magically fix my vaguely 
   described conflict with another plugin, but as a heads-up that this error arises
   and as a request for guidance in seeking solutions.
 * I’m using no other plugins but version 1.8 of Image Metadata Cruncher and 0.1.2
   of Eazyest Gallery. This is a single instance of WP 3.5.1 on shared hosting at
   Dreamhost with the theme set to 2011 and Eazyest Gallery’s metadata parsing/display
   turned off. It’s a dev site on which I’m working to deadline, so any links I 
   provided would be unlikely to show a stable illustration of this situation.
 * Importing image folders generates these warnings:
 *     ```
       Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/user/subsite.site.ca/wp-content/plugins/image-metadata-cruncher/image-metadata-cruncher.php on line 333
   
       Warning: array_change_key_case() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/user/subsite.site.ca/wp-content/plugins/image-metadata-cruncher/image-metadata-cruncher.php on line 332
       ```
   
 * These are my current settings, which work well for standard image import:
    Title:
 *     ```
       { IPTC:Caption } - { IPTC:Keywords }
       Alternate text:
       { IPTC:Caption }
       Caption:
       { EXIF:Headline @ "/$$" }
       Description:
       { IPTC:Caption | EXIF:ImageDescription }
       ```
   
 * If you have any insights or recommendations for a workaround I would much appreciate
   your input. If you’re aware of robust gallery/bulk-import plugins that cooperate
   better with Image Metadata Cruncher, I’d also be delighted to hear about them.
   
   Thanks ~ David
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-metadata-cruncher/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-metadata-cruncher/)

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 *  Plugin Author [peterhudec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterhudec/)
 * (@peterhudec)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-on-bulk-folder-structured-media-import/#post-3668348)
 * Hi David,
 * Thanks for the detailed description.
    I will try to reproduce your behavior and
   let you know next week. As to bulk-import plugins, I have only tried Faster Image
   Insert which works fine with IMC.
 * Peter
 *  Thread Starter [CMSSwitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmsswitch/)
 * (@cmsswitch)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-on-bulk-folder-structured-media-import/#post-3668373)
 * Appreciate the rapid response, Peter, and the suggestion. I’ll try faster Image
   Insert shortly if my current experiments with next generation gallery prove no
   more fruitful.
    Be well ~ David

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## Tags

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 * [exif](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/exif/)
 * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gallery/)
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