Uploading

JonnyJonny Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
edited September 25, 2009 in SmugMug Support
I have a photobooth business where I would like to upload the photos to my gallery as they are taken so I can have them on the web "within minutes" of the photos being taken.

Is there any way to FTP to my galleries as I can set up Fling to send automatically as new images are added to the local directory? OR is there anything that will allow me to do this?

I'm afraid this may be the one item that I over looked before I purchased the Pro account.

I think I may have wasted 150.00 bucks.

Thanks.

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 24, 2009
    Jonny wrote:
    I have a photobooth business where I would like to upload the photos to my gallery as they are taken so I can have them on the web "within minutes" of the photos being taken.

    Is there any way to FTP to my galleries as I can set up Fling to send automatically as new images are added to the local directory? OR is there anything that will allow me to do this?

    I'm afraid this may be the one item that I over looked before I purchased the Pro account.

    I think I may have wasted 150.00 bucks.

    Thanks.

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  • JonnyJonny Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited September 24, 2009
    Um, how does that help me?

    I have wi-fi on my laptop.

    When the booth is running, the images are saved to my laptop, not the camera.

    I want to FTP to my gallery as the photos are saved to the laptop. I'm unable to upload manually while the camera software is running, any other programs will steal focus when I would use them and the liveview for the camera will not be shown properly as people are using the booth.

    What have you got that will upload automatically from a local folder to the gallery, reading the local folder and only uploading the most recently added images that works like Fling for FTP?

    Thanks.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 24, 2009
    It helps you as the photos go right to SmugMug thumb.gif

    We don't support any FTP, sorry :(
  • JonnyJonny Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited September 24, 2009
    Yeah, that's still not going to help, photos are saved to the laptop which has wi-fi.

    Other than using FTP to automatically send to the gallery and since I need to send them from my laptop is there another way to automatically upload them. Having a Pro account should give me some options to be able to do this.

    Thanks.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 25, 2009
    Jonny wrote:
    Yeah, that's still not going to help, photos are saved to the laptop which has wi-fi.

    Other than using FTP to automatically send to the gallery and since I need to send them from my laptop is there another way to automatically upload them. Having a Pro account should give me some options to be able to do this.

    Thanks.
    I'm sorry, I do not understand - the photos are on your laptop and also go to SmugMug. Isn't that good?
  • JonnyJonny Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited September 25, 2009
    I have a photobooth that I rent out. Standard PowerShot camera plugged in to a laptop. The laptop has software running on it that allows the camera to be controlled to take photos by pressing a button on the outside of the booth. The images are downloaded automatically to the laptop, saved, then printed on a dye sub photo printer. I would like to be able to upload the photos to the gallery as they are saved to the event folder.

    Now, is there a way for me to have an uploader running in the background, scanning the event folder for new images and upload them automatically to the gallery, without me having to touch the laptop once the event has started?

    Thanks.
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