I am not sure if this is the appropriate venue for my request, but it seems better than other options.

I have used Acidfree on my production site for a little over a year, but for various reasons I am looking to move away from Acidfree and toward using Image, Views and Lightbox2 under Drupal 6. However, I would like to be able to continue to offer the images that I have already uploaded under Acidfree, without uploading them all again. Can anyone tell me what steps I would need to take with my installation to convert my Acidfree images into 'standard' images that can be used with these other modules? I assume that I will need to modify the node types for some entries (which ones?), and I will probably need to build some views for them, as well as perhaps some modification in my taxonomies.

I probably would be able to figure this out on my own, but I am leery about screwing up my production site, so if more advanced users could offer guidance or suggestions, I would really appreciate it.

David

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casperl commented

Ditto.

There is not a hint as to whether a Drupal 6 version of Acidfree will come along, if ever.

I am committed to Acidfree to the point that I can rightfully say I run Acidfree sites that happen to run on Drupal and not the other way round.

But now I have to look at alternate solutions for the future. So where to now?

(And I am NOT a PHP programmer, life is just to busy to find the time.)

Any advice anyone?

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scroogie commented

I think the only gallery solution for drupal at all that is maintained and enhanced since years is the integration of menalto gallery (http://drupal.org/project/gallery), probably because they need it for their own page (gallery.sf.net). It's a pity, but it seems like no drupalish gallery ever survives.

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pasqualle
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sorry for the absolutely off topic comment

only gallery solution for drupal is the integration of menalto gallery

you are wrong on this one, there are many options to create image galleries in drupal

http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_gallery
http://drupaldojo.com/lesson/integrating-the-image_gallery-and-views-mod...

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sunfish62 commented

Since I am using this software for a small personal site, I have been able to migrate my images over using the following manual steps. I am sure that someone with better understanding of MySQL and the Drupal table structure could find a way to handle this entirely via SQL. I however, know only enough to mess everything up, so I avoided that.

First, I enabled image galleries in the modules and permissions. I made sure that the Image Galleries vocabulary was allowed for the image content type, and then also mmade sure that neither Image Galleries nor Acidfree vocabularies were Required (my Acidfree vocab was set to required, but I don't know if that was my doing or the default).

Next, I recreated my Acidfree albums in Image Galleries.

Now, the most annoying part: I went through image by image and assigned each image to the appropriate Image Gallery and de-selected the Acidfree album (you may want to do this as a two-stage process to ensure continuity and functionality). Once this was completed, I could delete the Acidfree galleries without losing the images.

As I said, I am sure someone with better understanding of MySQL and Drupal should be able to perform this conversion with a few quick SQL commands. It is my hope that by outlining what I have done manually so far to accomplish my goal, I will make it easier for someone else to come up with those nifty commands.

All the best,
David

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ricmadeira commented

Thanks for your report, David. I think I'll be doing exactly the same soon enough... good to know that if all else fails at least you can get there with some "manual" work, hehe.

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mwheinz commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Acidfree for drupal6 is back under maintenance and I will be eventually looking at the d7 version once this version is stable and complete.