Manually adding photos

[Greg M]

I've had problems with EE doing the resizing so I have opted to do my own resizing and I upload the photos to their folders through an FTP program like I use to do with the older version of EE. I setup a new exhibition and assign the thumbs and micros to it in the exhibition editor. I then set the default photodata and point the paths to the directories with the pics in them.

EE sees the thumbs and the micros for the exhibition in the exhibition editor but when I try to view the exhibition it says that there are no photos. Even the thumbs and micros don't show up.

How do I make the exhibition see the pics?

[Pekka]

Did you do the upload part? Check that your are patched with http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=30778

Manual input is made this way:

1. you send your photos to EE's "input/UPLOAD" folder (using ftp or EE's "STEP 1 : send photos to server upload folder" on upload page). These photos are needed for two things: filename reference and EXIF/XMP/IPTC reading. They can be very very small, only thing that matters that they are there.
2. Go to UPLOAD editor.
3. Select the photos you want to add to database - "STEP 2 : select photos from server upload folder".
4. Select paths the photos go to - "STEP 3 : select sizes and where they are going".
4. Select target exhibition: - "STEP 4 : select target exhibition".
5. Tick on "SPECIAL: no ftp or resize automation (manual file upload)".
6. Click "UPLOAD" button once.

What above does: it adds the selected photos to EE database, assigns them to correct paths and reports it all to you on report area on bottom of upload page. It does not resize, move or create photo files. That is what you must do manually: upload resized photos (thumbs, microthumbs and various sizes needed) to respective folders (which you need to create if they are not already there), using you own ftp client or control panel upload tool.

Example report could be like:

Microthumb path:
/public_html/gallery/newgallery/microthumb/

Thumb path:
/public_html/gallery/newgallery/thumb/

Size path(s):
/public_html/gallery/newphotos/original/
/public_html/gallery/newphotos/big/
/public_html/gallery/newphotos/small/

FILES INSERTED:
HV294324903.jpg
HV8O3wsd.jpg
testsfdjkfdlds.jpg

MANUAL UPLOAD FINISHED.
Upload command performed without ftp or resize actions. You will need to upload files to respective paths manually.

So, in this case you task is to resize files HV294324903.jpg, HV8O3wsd.jpg, testsfdjkfdlds.jpg to big, small, thumb and microthumb sizes and upload them to folders mentioned above.

Filenames are case sensitive and must match with what EE reported.

PS. If you need help solving your EE resize problem PM me your server info and I'll have look.

[Greg M]

I understand this but I've got one dumb question. How do I apply the patch?

[Pekka]

Download it, unzip it, upload files with ftp (replace old files). All those files go to your input folder.

[Greg M]

Thank you.