Piwigo Download All Photos

Greetings,



I'm new to Piwigo and I'm just now setting up my gallery. Before I get too =
far I wanted to put what I'm doing out there to see what others think and w=
hat problems/issues/concerns I may need to be aware off.



I want to use Piwigo to both manage and display my main photo collection of=
 a few thousand pictures. I will be the only admin and the only one adding =
photos. All photos will be added via the file system, no web upload.



1. All my photos are organized in folder hierarchy by Year/Date/year-date-t=
ime.jpg. This is the photo collection and I will add photos into this folde=
r.

2. I have symlinked the Piwigo 'galleries' folder to this photo collection =
folder.

3. I've brought the photos into Piwigo by doing a local synchronization.

4. I have created folders in 'galleries' in the file system (i.e. the photo=
 collection folder) to act as my Albums. So I have folders like 'Abstracts'=
, 'Animals', 'Family', 'Landscape', 'Plants' etc. Once synchronized these f=
olders become albums in Piwigo.=20

5. I'am organizing my photos into these albums/categories by tagging and mo=
ving them in Piwigo itself. Using the batch editor a photo of a butterfly i=
s tagged 'animals,Insects,Butterflies,butterfly name' and moved to the Albu=
m; Animals, sub-album Butterflies.



The great thing about this system, to me, is that my photos on the hard dri=
ve are never touched. I will keep my collection organized by date and once =
all my photos are tagged I can put them in albums and move them about in Pi=
wigo without changing anything in the file system. I can even delete them f=
rom Piwigo all without touching the actual files on disk.

It does mean that I have an album in Piwigo that is all my original photos =
by date. But I have just made that administrator only.



My concerns at this point are about the local synchronization feature which=
 I have seen being referred to as legacy here on the forums. Is this featur=
e going to remain in Piwigo?. I'm going to keep needing it.

Another thing is whether having my albums as directories in the file system=
 is an issue. I could make purely virtual albums from within Piwigo but it =
is much easier to create them on the command line and then synch Piwigo.

Are there any gotchas or issues that may trip up my workflow down the line?



emk

Massive thanks to the Piwigo team for creating this software. I think I've =
found a permanent home for my picture!



Piwigo version: 2.10.1-1

PHP version: 7.3.11-1

MySQL version: 10.4.10-1 (MariaDB)

Piwigo URL:


I hope anyone here knows the photo db piwigo and can help me with my issue.=
 Currently, it doesn't seem to be possible to register for the piwigo forum=
 (I tried so with three e-mail-addresses, but didn't get the confirm e-mail=
s)



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I'm running OMV 5 and in portainer I installed a piwigo docker container. I=
n OMV I created the volume piwigo_gallery (docker volume create piwigo_gall=
ery). I mapped this volume in the piwigo container to the container's /conf=
ig/galleries directory. As next step I copied some photos, I already have i=
n /srv/dev-label-Disc* directories to /var/lib/docker/volume/piwigo_gallery=
/_data into a folder Test.


Afterwards I started the piwigo container and opened piwigo in the browser.=
 On the Admin start page I clicked the "Fast synchronise" button. Neither a=
lbums nor photos could be found. When I run the portainer console of the pi=
wigo container and navigate to the /config/galleries directory I see the Te=
st folder and the photos (inside Test).


I'm not sure, if piwigo really enters the /config/galleries directory or an=
y other (in the description they write "galleries" but I couldn't find that=
 folder at all). or if perhaps the permissions on the Test folder and the p=
hotos do not work for piwigo to see the photos.


Hello/Hi/Greetings,



I am new to Piwigo and installed it on an Odroid HC2 in a docker. All my ph=
otos are already on the Hard disk My question is when I add a photo to Piwi=
go is there another copy of the image added to the hard drive somewhere Or =
does Piwigo simply store a reference to the images location in the database=
?=20



If it is storing another copy of the image where is it located and is there=
 some way to prevent this.



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Piwigo URL: http://


 kos, I don't quite understand this. And maybe it's too many months ago to =
ask for an update. But I am struggling to understand what a symlink looks l=
ike in a non-Linux context (Windows), where it sits, and how it works. So I=
'd be very grateful for some more explanation!



I'm looking at my NAS using WinSCP, and am not sure which field you are usi=
ng for each part.=20

Top field seems to be for a label. Bottom field is for a path? Is it the pa=
th to the folder with photos in it? What might that path look like? \\path\=
to\photos? Or something else?





And after that, where are you using this link? In WinSCP, in Piwigo, or in =
your NAS management console?

Does this link sit in the Piwigo galleries folder, or somehwere else?

Is Piwigo meant to parse it automatically and add photo details to the data=
base?


Using puTTY to make a symbolic link is straightforward, but Piwigo does not=
 recognise the result.=20



I've got puTTY on the same LAN as the NAS, so I log in to the NAS web direc=
tory via local IP (192.168.n.n).

Once I've connected, I create a symbolic link using the ln command and the =
-s switch.

I navigate to the destination folder (piwigo/) so that the link is created =
in that folder.






That's not where it is supposed to reside (unless you screwed the site mana=
ger's directory). Place the link in Piwigo's ./galleries/ directory, if tha=
t is what is configured under Admin -> Tools -> Site manager. So, make sure=
 the /volume1/web/piwigo/galleries/ directory exists and then






Is there a way to only allow downloading of images from specific albums in =
a gallery and not in all albums? Or can it be set to only download certain =
images in an album?



I want to set up albums for models I shoot so they can download edited phot=
os. But I don't want other photos to be available for download.






I looked at the Piwigo demo. In the "features" album with high resolution i=
mages, I see a download icon. But yet it doesn't seem to be in any of the o=
ther albums. I'm trying to set mine up the same way but can't get it to wor=
k.



Here's what I'm trying to do:



I have a private album named "models". In the "models" album there are sub-=
albums for each model.

These contain un-editied images for them to preview. What I need to do is t=
o be able to add edited high resolution images that are available for only =
them to download, not the general public.



On the demo page it says it's simple to do by adding a sub-category named p=
wg_high. NOT!=20



I upload all my images to albums using ploader. In the model's albums there=
 is a folder named pwg_high which also contains images.



But when I go to the photos in my gallery there is no "download" icon, and =
when I move my mouse over an image it the only options are "thumbnails", pr=
evious image, or next image.



Can someone explain how the hell to get this to work? Or at least send me t=
o a file that truly explains how to do this? When I search the forum, the r=
esults can be from dreamstime, or any other site on the web. i don't have t=
ime to search through a gazillion hits doing a search.



The support here really is a little lacking in quality in my opinion. I see=
 a lot of un-answered questions here. Or when you ask a question, you get a=
 question for a reply, not an answer.






That's the main gallery I've been working on.

To access the "models" albums I'll need to give you a login/password. I hav=
e them set up as private. Should I just email you a login/password for the =
user? That way you will see her albums/photos. That's the one I'm really ha=
ving issues with.


I went through several of my albums (for the models) and it now appears tha=
t the downloading of images is not working in all of them. A few are workin=
g fine, but others are acting really strange.



In a couple of the albums the download (save) button is missing. In others =
when I click on it the size of the photos is wrong. Instead of the actual h=
igh resolution image, it wants to download the one that actually shows on t=
he image page which is only about 250k, not the 6 or 7 megs it should be do=
wnloading.



Very strange. It was all working fine at one point but now I'm stumped agai=
n.



Sometimes I upload images using Ploader. Other times I upload through "add =
photos" in the admin section. It depends on how many images I'm uploading a=
s to which method I use. Not sure which is causing the issues.



Another thing I noticed when going through all the folders (FTP). Images re=
ally seem to be scattered all over the place. I have one album for a recent=
 model shoot, which has hi-res images that were all uploaded at the same ti=
me. When I go through the folder structure and find the thumbnail for that =
album and look in the pwg_high folder there are only a couple of the images=
. I can't figure out where Piwigo put the others. Very confusing.





I would really like to see this option incorporated into either the image b=
atch manager or as an option in albums so we can set either an album or spe=
cific images allowable to download hi-res images.


Hello i try to turn of LDAP Plugin. it maks not a diferenc. The problem is =
not by the win reader. I can open the pictures whith the XnViewMP an i see =
that they have after download komplet no Metadata. EXIF is compled missing.=
 If i do this by piwigo demo server the pictures have after download still =
all metadata


Hello



I am new to Piwigo.



I have installed Piwigo as a docker on Open Media Vault.

My photos are already saved on my server and Piwigo is installed on the sam=
e server , how do I import the photos on my server into piwigo.

When I set up Piwigo I pointed the photos folder to where my photos are sav=
ed on my server but they don't show up in Piwigo.



Thanks to anyone who replies.

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