copying photos to another gallery

lynnma · April 27, 2006

I'm usually very dense about these things but I just can't see it. I can move photographs to another gallery but I can't see an option to copy. Now I've finally figured out how to get my slideshow going I'd like to create a whole new gallery just for that... I wanted to use shots from different galleries an' mix 'em up a bit.. am I missing something? or is it not possible.

http://lynn.smugmug.com/

Mike Lane · April 27, 2006

lynnma wrote:

I'm usually very dense about these things but I just can't see it. I can move photographs to another gallery but I can't see an option to copy. Now I've finally figured out how to get my slideshow going I'd like to create a whole new gallery just for that... I wanted to use shots from different galleries an' mix 'em up a bit.. am I missing something? or is it not possible.

http://lynn.smugmug.com/

AFAIK, there's not a copy option per se. You can duplicate the image and then move it. There's a bug associated with that I've found. When you duplicate the image once, it doesn't show up although it's actually there. So when you think it didn't duplicate you duplicate it again. Then it shows up and you move it. When you go back to the gallery where the original is located, you end up finding 2 images left in there and the image you moved to the other gallery exists too (making 3 images total).

Anyhow, all in all it may be easier to upload from your computer if you can.

lynnma · April 27, 2006

Mike Lane wrote:

AFAIK, there's not a copy option per se. You can duplicate the image and then move it. There's a bug associated with that I've found. When you duplicate the image once, it doesn't show up although it's actually there. So when you think it didn't duplicate you duplicate it again. Then it shows up and you move it. When you go back to the gallery where the original is located, you end up finding 2 images left in there and the image you moved to the other gallery exists too (making 3 images total).

Anyhow, all in all it may be easier to upload from your computer if you can.

Yeah.. thanks Mike.. I was hoping to happily drag and drop. Half of the stuff I have in Smugmug I've lost in a huge pile here somewhere... so I'll have to duplicate and move as you say.
By the way... the bunny is still living in the babies room?

Sheaf · April 27, 2006

Mike Lane wrote:

There's a bug associated with that I've found. When you duplicate the image once, it doesn't show up although it's actually there. So when you think it didn't duplicate you duplicate it again. Then it shows up and you move it. When you go back to the gallery where the original is located, you end up finding 2 images left in there and the image you moved to the other gallery exists too (making 3 images total).

I've never seen that Mike. Are you waiting for the page to finish loading after you choose to make a second copy?

Sheaf · April 27, 2006

lynnma wrote:

Yeah.. thanks Mike.. I was hoping to happily drag and drop. Half of the stuff I have in Smugmug I've lost in a huge pile here somewhere... so I'll have to duplicate and move as you say.
By the way... the bunny is still living in the babies room?

It's certainly something we have thought of, but it would be a very dangerous tool. Since you can make changes with the photo tools to already-uploaded photos, we had to make the "2nd copy" feature create a whole new image on our disks. So if we allow people to wantonly make 2, 3, or 600 copies of images in bulk just to have them in separate locations, it could very easily get out of hand.

The other option would be to make copied images linked, so that we don't have to create a new file. But then we run into problems with other tools. Do we also link the comments associated with the photo? Zoomed thumbnail? Watermark? Pro pricing? Etc.

Mike Lane · April 27, 2006

Sheaf wrote:

I've never seen that Mike. Are you waiting for the page to finish loading after you choose to make a second copy?

Yup the page was fully reloaded. Once I knew what was going on I even exited the gallery and re-entered the gallery and then logged off and then back on and then logged off, emptied my cache restarted and logged back on. The gallery only showed one copy of the image. Then I made another copy and then it showed 3 copies. I think I posted a bug report about it when it happened to me too.

JimM · April 27, 2006

Mike Lane wrote:

There's a bug associated with that I've found. When you duplicate the image once, it doesn't show up although it's actually there. So when you think it didn't duplicate you duplicate it again. Then it shows up and you move it. When you go back to the gallery where the original is located, you end up finding 2 images left in there and the image you moved to the other gallery exists too (making 3 images total).

I had this happen to me multiple times a couple of weeks ago. Even if I refreshed the gallery the duplicate was not there, then I would copy again and I would have 3.

cmason · April 27, 2006

JimM wrote:

I had this happen to me multiple times a couple of weeks ago. Even if I refreshed the gallery the duplicate was not there, then I would copy again and I would have 3.

ditto....managed to create 3 copies before any of them showed on screen. Clicked refresh, went in and out of the gallery, but didn't help.

jamescalder · April 28, 2006

Sheaf wrote:

I've never seen that Mike. Are you waiting for the page to finish loading after you choose to make a second copy?

sheaf,

FYI, this was duly reported by at least three of us in the bug reporting thread over the past month:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=279863&postcount=260
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=290809&postcount=319
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=290999&postcount=320

j

Street and travel photography by James Calder

Sheaf · April 28, 2006

jamescalder wrote:

sheaf,

FYI, this was duly reported by at least three of us in the bug reporting thread over the past month:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=279863&postcount=260
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=290809&postcount=319
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=290999&postcount=320

j
Street and travel photography by James Calder

I have to admit complacency in reading through that thread. I think only Andy and the developers read it religiously. I have been working the last 24 hours on replicating the bug and can't seem to do it on any of my test galleries. Does it happen in specific galleries?

Andy · April 28, 2006

jamescalder wrote:

sheaf,

FYI, this was duly reported by at least three of us in the bug reporting thread over the past month:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=279863&postcount=260
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=290809&postcount=319
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=290999&postcount=320

j
Street and travel photography by James Calder

Yep and I've reported it, but the real difficulty is that it's nearly impossible to reproduce at will. When designing themes, I replace photos (little graphics) alot - and occasionally it will happen to me, too. Yet I can't reproduce it.

jamescalder · April 28, 2006

Andy wrote:

Yep and I've reported it, but the real difficulty is that it's nearly impossible to reproduce at will. When designing themes, I replace photos (little graphics) alot - and occasionally it will happen to me, too. Yet I can't reproduce it.

eek... the worst kind of bug!

thanks for all your efforts.

j

Street and travel photography by James Calder

lynnma · April 28, 2006

It happened to me yesterday as I was copying about 30 shots from different galleries but I ignored it and it's resloved by it'self.. just seems to be a slight brain lag thing

bwg · April 28, 2006

lynnma wrote:

I'm usually very dense about these things but I just can't see it. I can move photographs to another gallery but I can't see an option to copy. Now I've finally figured out how to get my slideshow going I'd like to create a whole new gallery just for that... I wanted to use shots from different galleries an' mix 'em up a bit.. am I missing something? or is it not possible.

http://lynn.smugmug.com/

sorry i'm late to the party on this...lynn the newest version of slideshow supports keyword galleries so instead of copying them all to a new gallery, just slap a keyword on them. I use the keyword 'featured' on my site, then just put slideshowUrl = "http://lynn.smugmug.com/keyword/featured";

works like a champ!

rutt · April 30, 2006

Andy wrote:

Yep and I've reported it, but the real difficulty is that it's nearly impossible to reproduce at will. When designing themes, I replace photos (little graphics) alot - and occasionally it will happen to me, too. Yet I can't reproduce it.

I reported this bug (or one with exactly the same symptoms) nearly a month ago to help@smugmug.com. I have a gallery where it can be reproduced and I supplied explicit instructions to reproduce. I just checked and I can still reproduce. I have been careful not to change this gallery until I got some feedback that the bug had been diagnosed. The only feedback I've gotten is that Andy says the bug is reported.

Here is a sequence for testing for this bug:

Select a photo
Make 2nd copy
It doesn't show up
Select another shot
Make 2nd copy
2nd copy of the first shot now shows up
Delete 2nd copy of the first shot
2nd copy of the second shot now shows up
Delete it if you like

It only happens in some galleries.

Mike Lane · April 30, 2006

bigwebguy wrote:

sorry i'm late to the party on this...lynn the newest version of slideshow supports keyword galleries so instead of copying them all to a new gallery, just slap a keyword on them. I use the keyword 'featured' on my site, then just put slideshowUrl = "http://lynn.smugmug.com/keyword/featured";

works like a champ!

Yeah, that is definitely the best idea. (and it's awesome that the slideshow works with it!) I really wish I would have thought of that when I was creating that extra gallery for the shots of mine that were on display. I could have linked them with the keywords super easily. The only small issue is that the gallery couldn't have been a featured gallery. Not too big of a deal though.

There's still a bug though...

copying photos to another gallery

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