How do I upload many images at once (like 30)?
Blair - December 13, 2005 - 19:37
| Project: | image_import |
| Version: | HEAD |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Is there a better way?
I'd tell you what version I'm using, but I don't even know how to find that out!
After 5 hours sitting here doing this repetitive act, I thought maybe someone could tell me the efficient approach! (I've still got over 100 photos to go).
Thanks so much,
blair

#1
Hi, Blair
Your subject line contains the key to the problem. You are doing "create content...image". That uses the one-at-a-time import functionality in image.module. To use my image_import module, you need to do "create content...image_import" instead. That can do dozens of images at a time -- this is why I wrote the module in the first place. :-)
Please note that image_import.module cannot upload files from your hard disk to the server. It relies on you creating an import directory on the server, then using FTP or SCP or some similar utility to pre-upload your images (and, optionally, .txt or .html files with captions for each image) to that import directory. The image_import module can scan the import directory on the server and import all of the images it finds there.
Take a look at the README file that comes with image_import, and also when you are in the admin/settings/image_import screen, note that there is a link to a help page that I've actually put inside the program itself.
Kind regards,
Scott ("Syscrusher")
#2
As long as this is still active, I'll add here instead of creating a new issue: why not allow batch upload from a remote directory to a directory on the local server, then to be processed.... ???
~K