Quick Easy Bulk Download Photos (Zip, hopefully)

jc20

Is there some option or easy, quick tool to download a whole gallery? One of my relatives prefers to use their own printer. I have tried Star Explorer, Smugmug Download tool, WebDAV, etc. All are slow or otherwise clunky and non-user friendly. Gallery 2.0, LinPHA, and a few other Linux server tools already have this option. I'm sure other services (I believe ClubPhoto) have the option to download a zip file of a whole gallery as well. Does Smugmug have this? If not, that stinks!

Andy

jc20 wrote:

Is there some option or easy, quick tool to download a whole gallery? One of my relatives prefers to use their own printer. I have tried Star Explorer, Smugmug Download tool, WebDAV, etc. All are slow or otherwise clunky and non-user friendly. Gallery 2.0, LinPHA, and a few other Linux server tools already have this option. I'm sure other services (I believe ClubPhoto) have the option to download a zip file of a whole gallery as well. Does Smugmug have this? If not, that stinks!

hiya jc - so you've tried smugmug windowload tool?...

and the rest of the hacks and apps?

there's another option, your relatives may order a cd or dvd backup of a gallery, quick and easy. wish i had a better answer for you.

DavidTO

Try WebDav.

jfriend

Warning about webdav

DavidTO wrote:

Try WebDav.

I tried to use WebDav for downloading multiple galleries and found it had some serious problems, corrupting every sixth image download. The problem was 100% reproducible in my circumstance. I reported it to help@smugmug.com, got a response that they'd look into it, but never heard anything after that.

So, I'd be wary of their webdav implementation which they've never taken out of "beta" status. It did not work for me.

--John

DavidTO

jfriend wrote:

I tried to use WebDav for downloading multiple galleries and found it had some serious problems, corrupting every sixth image download. The problem was 100% reproducible in my circumstance. I reported it to help@smugmug.com, got a response that they'd look into it, but never heard anything after that.

So, I'd be wary of their webdav implementation which they've never taken out of "beta" status. It did not work for me.

--John

Huh. Haven't had the problem, but also didn't use it all that much. Curious that it would corrupt files, it doesn't seem possible to my limited knowledge that WebDav would corrupt them...but I don't know much about that stuff.

Anyone else played with it with success or problems?

Andy

jfriend wrote:

I tried to use WebDav for downloading multiple galleries and found it had some serious problems, corrupting every sixth image download. The problem was 100% reproducible in my circumstance. I reported it to help@smugmug.com, got a response that they'd look into it, but never heard anything after that.

So, I'd be wary of their webdav implementation which they've never taken out of "beta" status. It did not work for me.

--John

smugmug wrote:

WARNING: smugDAV is highly experimental. I wouldn't even call it BETA level software just yet. If you're not comfortable fiddling with your computer, and potentially breaking something, please don't try this!

as reported on the webdav page on smugmug help

luke_church

DavidTO wrote:

Anyone else played with it with success or problems?

Worked fine for me.

Downsides:

- Bit on the slow side, don't even think of it for Dialup, but that's kind of inevitable
- Needed high stability in the connection to work very well. Flaky connections would fail with only some of the file copied, but I didn't see any obvious data corruption.

Luke

asd

luke_church wrote:

Worked fine for me.

Downsides:

- Bit on the slow side, don't even think of it for Dialup, but that's kind of inevitable
- Needed high stability in the connection to work very well. Flaky connections would fail with only some of the file copied, but I didn't see any obvious data corruption.

Luke

I've used smugdav to pull down several large albums and have had no problems at all. I was initially surprised to find all images ever uploaded to an album present (even after deleting them), but haven't had any problems with it.

My only gripe is with Windows XP - it doesn't make it easy to remove the webdav entries - if you delete the shortcut it will still list the connection in the dropdown box when you go to create a new one (and your credentials will be cached). Deleting a registry key fixes that though.

jc20

Bulk Download
I've tried everything I can think of, including a trial of some commercial software (forget the name). I'll submit this as a feature request. I may switch back to Gallery 2.0 for the meantime. Thanks for your responses!

andy wrote:

hiya jc - so you've tried smugmug windowload tool?...

and the rest of the hacks and apps?

there's another option, your relatives may order a cd or dvd backup of a gallery, quick and easy. wish i had a better answer for you.

DavidTO

jc20 wrote:

I've tried everything I can think of, including a trial of some commercial software (forget the name). I'll submit this as a feature request. I may switch back to Gallery 2.0 for the meantime. Thanks for your responses!

Have you tried this?