Piwigo Download All Photos

[Gordon Neal]

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 what 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-time.jpg. This is the photo collection and I will add photos into this folder.

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 folders become albums in Piwigo.

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



The great thing about this system, to me, is that my photos on the hard drive 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 Piwigo without changing anything in the file system. I can even delete them from 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 feature 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-mails)



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I'm running OMV 5 and in portainer I installed a piwigo docker container. In OMV I created the volume piwigo_gallery (docker volume create piwigo_gallery). I mapped this volume in the piwigo container to the container's /config/galleries directory. As next step I copied some photos, I already have in /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 albums nor photos could be found. When I run the portainer console of the piwigo container and navigate to the /config/galleries directory I see the Test folder and the photos (inside Test).


I'm not sure, if piwigo really enters the /config/galleries directory or any 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 photos 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 photos are already on the Hard disk My question is when I add a photo to Piwigo 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?



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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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 like 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 using for each part.

Top field seems to be for a label. Bottom field is for a path? Is it the path 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 database?


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



I've got puTTY on the same LAN as the NAS, so I log in to the NAS web directory 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 manager's directory). Place the link in Piwigo's ./galleries/ directory, if that 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 photos. 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 images, I see a download icon. But yet it doesn't seem to be in any of the other albums. I'm trying to set mine up the same way but can't get it to work.



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 to 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 pwg_high. NOT!



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", previous image, or next image.



Can someone explain how the hell to get this to work? Or at least send me to a file that truly explains how to do this? When I search the forum, the results can be from dreamstime, or any other site on the web. i don't have time 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 have 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 having issues with.


I went through several of my albums (for the models) and it now appears that the downloading of images is not working in all of them. A few are working 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 high resolution image, it wants to download the one that actually shows on the image page which is only about 250k, not the 6 or 7 megs it should be downloading.



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



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 as to which method I use. Not sure which is causing the issues.



Another thing I noticed when going through all the folders (FTP). Images really 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 time. 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 batch manager or as an option in albums so we can set either an album or specific 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 same 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 saved on my server but they don't show up in Piwigo.



Thanks to anyone who replies.

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