Oops I F'ed up on a Multi Gallery Move
uncool
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For reasons not worth going into I accidentally moved all my galleries into one. Yes I saw the warning, yes I ignored the warning.
So what is the easiest way of reorganizing galleries - the "select galleries" pull down process is tedious. Is there a checkbox/radio button view that can accomplish the same thing or any other option?
So what is the easiest way of reorganizing galleries - the "select galleries" pull down process is tedious. Is there a checkbox/radio button view that can accomplish the same thing or any other option?
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Wish I had an easier choice for you. If you use windows, Star Explorer might be a good choice for you to look at, and of course the Lightroom uploader works well for organizing your galleries, if you have Lightroom. Take a look here at the third party apps that are available. Maybe one of them will help: http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/84267
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So the Lightroom option...I do have it and have used it to publish some galleries but I had way more galleries on SM than I do in LR. So the next time I launch LR what do I do? Just republish everything?
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Then, when you have all of those images, simply drag them from the film strip to the original gallery that you just imported via the "Synch Hierarchy" step. This will copy the image into the desired gallery.
This will ONLY work for images in your current LR catalog though. If you have multiple catalogs, I believe you will have to do the synch steps over again in all the other catalogs.
Let me know if this makes sense
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And DON'T IGNORE WARNINGS! :nono
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I've done this on smaller scales (2-3 galleries into one), and the fastest way I found to fix the problem was to move files from just one gallery to another en mass. So if you combined three galleries to one, move from the big one back to one of the other two. Then do the other one. This would work for any number of galleries. Just watch the gallery size as you can only work with about 10k images in the mass move tool from what I recall.
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Ironically this situation occurred as I was planning a wholesale rebuild so it has given me plenty of time to think about how I want the site set up.
Up until now I have used SM for two reasons. "Archiving" and showing off family photos to family only as well as a means to distribute photos of the various teams my kids play on. I have not used it as a portfolio but that will be changing.
And that is where I have come to realize that one of the big feature requests and one that I am interested in and have seen discussed is the sub-sub categories (or some variation of multiple levels).
I have played around with Smart Galleries but the 1000 photo limit is, well limiting. I will be attempting to use Collections as a means to achieve a version of the structure I envision.
While I am hopeful that the much talked about backend revamp will show up soon I am not waiting to see if it does. I am forging ahead with the available tools. The workarounds are interesting but I'd rather use stock components.
Anyway, thanks again for providing suggestions, this community is quite helpful.
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Anyway, the final gotcha ya I experienced was the fact over the years I had exported catalogs out of my main catalog in order to keep things more tidy locally. That forgotten bit of information came back to me at the conclusion of the sync.
So the good news, kinda, is that the sync photos/hierarchy does work. It's incredibly slow and if you have multiple LR catalogs there will be issues.
For now, it's time for a Manhattan and to think about how I want to rebuild my photo world. Thanks again for the help.
And I have to add that the misuse of the Move All Galleries command be added to the list of classic blunders "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" and "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line" .
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If you have a problem with duplicates, I have a small tool I developed that may help. Pm me if you want to try it out.
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Uncool, can you send me the URL for your site, so I can look at it to make sure I understand what your looking at?
Thanks!
Michael
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