By canadrian on

I have a rather large embedded Gallery2 installation. Don't get me wrong, I love Gallery2, but I am becoming convinced that a native solution would be better for several reasons. Chiefly, to reduce feature bloat, to reduce time spent tweaking external apps to work with Drupal (same reason I chucked CiviCRM), to allow use of Taxonomy, and to allow tighter integration with Drupal and especially the Views module.

I'm thinking Acidfree will be the way to go, especially since it is now built on the popular Image, Video, and Views modules. I've recently become a huge fan of Views, despite its STEEP learning curve. It's just so awesomely useful! Plus with the module someone wrote for using the Gallery Remote protocol with image.module... just excellent.

But - and it's a HUGE "but" - I have close to FIVE THOUSAND images in my embedded Gallery2 installation. Jinkies. So I'm hoping that maybe - just maybe - there's a script or other method around somewhere to help me migrate my sizable amount of data over to Acidfree/Image/Video.

*Fingers crossed!*

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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tangibre commented

I would also love to be able to pull out the information from Gallery2 to my Drupal installation.

http://tangibre.blogspot.com/

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tangibre commented

I have decided to use a modified image_import module distributed with the current image module. I don't know if anyone are interested, but I basically used the methods described above. Modified the default 'title' field and added a date field to the form. I now have my old 650 old pictures as Drupal images. I wonder if I am going to convert the image-nodes to CCK-image nodes at a later time though.

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delineas commented

canadrian, Could you tell me more about your migration form Gallery to Drupal?

I have some problems with memory limits and I am thinking in move my Gallery instalation to image.module or imagefield.module (cck)

Thanks in advance

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canadrian commented

After several posts in various forums and issue trackers, I haven't found any way to do this with currently-available tools. I'd post a bounty, but unfortunately I'm a penniless student at the moment. :) Meanwhile I'm hanging out and waiting to see if the upcoming new Gallery integration module provides better integration. I'd do this manually, but over 3000 images would just take too much time.

It's not that Gallery is a bad product, or that the Gallery integration is poor - both are excellent! But I would give it all up to be able to use my site taxonomy on my images, videos, etc., and to be able to list all the images and/or albums as well as other drupal nodes on one node listing. Gallery integrates well with Drupal, but it's still *not* Drupal.

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