Uploading one .zip file is easier (and requires lower network resources) than uploading 10+ files. I know that swfupload integration is in progress - but we could use this minor feature after the integration too :)

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greggles
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IMO this belongs in a separate module - such as http://drupal.org/project/image_pub

If it were up to me, I would change this to "won't fix" or move it to the image pub queue as a request to support imagefield.

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alippai commented

I want to upload them as .zip file, then imagefield unzips it, verifies the content, assigns files to a field (multiple fields item 0, 1, 2 etc...) - IMO this is imagefields function, it only changes the file upload method (as swfupload will change it too)
Only functions listed with italic fonts are missing.

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greggles
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I understand what you want. I still think that it belongs elsewhere. I've built multiple importers that took image files on the file system, iterated over them, and turned them into imagfield nodes, so there is nothing that requires this to be in imagecache core. Therefore, I don't see any reason why this should be included in the module when there are other modules out there which already provide similar functionality.

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jpetso commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Whether this should go directly into imagefield or not is not up to me, however this is clearly a duplicate of #203933: Multiple file upload (even if that one mainly proposes Flash as upload method) so this issue should be closed. I'll add the .zip approach to the list of proposals in that issue.