rebuild all photos and thumbnails

ekitel

Joined: 2005-08-17
Posts: 30
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 00:30

I downloaded the albums directory from g2data, edited a lot of the photos there, and the reuploaded the whole albums directory to g2data

so now how can I get the new photos into the galleries? I've tried the maintenance option to Build all thumbnails/resizes, but this just checks the images, it's not actually rebuilding anything, how do I force it to rebuild everything whether it wants to or not?
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 00:49

you shouldn't do that...

however, you need to manually write a script that iterates over all data items and force a refresh.
if you removed / added files / removed / moved dirs in the albums directory, you just screwed up your G2 installation. i hope you just resized / manipulated the images... then a refresh would work.

try it with the search function. i've sketched the "refresh" code in a post in spring/early summer 2005 somewhere in the forums.
 
ekitel

Joined: 2005-08-17
Posts: 30
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 01:04

I didn't mess with the directory structure, I just had to crop some of the images a little because they hadn't been scanned properly originally, and this seemed like by far the easiest way to go through hundreds of photos

unfortunately I don't write code so I don't think I can do this, I guess I'll just have to re add the photos to the galleries using the add items from URL function
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 01:30

add items -> from local server is the best method in this case.
just move the contents of your albums directory to a folder outside of g2data, then reinstall your g2 (empty, ..).
then use add item from local server to add all albums at once.

http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:How_to_Add_Items#How_To_Add_Items_From_the_Local_Server
 
ekitel

Joined: 2005-08-17
Posts: 30
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 01:37

really? will it recreate all the albums and sub albums from the directories in the upload folder? I spent a lot of time creating a pretty complex structure of sub-galleries, so I can't loose that...
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 06:41

Yes, it will work. I don't know what you'd loose since by default G2 creates a copy from your upload folder. So you won't be loosing anything.
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valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 14:03

the structure is preserved, you'll lose comments, users, groups, customfields, ... just everything that you manually changed after adding images / albums. all new album / photo names will default to the folder/file names.

btw: this "loose" vs "lose" typo is funny, so many people write loose :)