Pbase to Smugmug Conversion

jdfaith

I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way of "automating" the move of Pbase content to Smugmug. I know the boys inthe lab were looking at something a while ago but it seems nothing materialized.

Thanks

John

Andy

jdfaith wrote:

I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way of "automating" the move of Pbase content to Smugmug. I know the boys inthe lab were looking at something a while ago but it seems nothing materialized.

Thanks

John

Hi John,

A good friend of mine tried the basics, got pretty far, and then stalled b/c he ran into roadblocks on the pbase side. I'll check with another one of our hackers to see if he might be able to pick up the work...

crenner

Me too.

Andy wrote:

A good friend of mine tried the basics, got pretty far, and then stalled b/c he ran into roadblocks on the pbase side. I'll check with another one of our hackers to see if he might be able to pick up the work...

I think you might find a lot of people interested in this right now. Without going into details, there are lot of upset pbase users (it's pretty obvious why if you visit their forums). I am not upset with pbase, but I I think that my needs have outgrown pbase, and I am looking into other picture hosting options. I just signed up for a smugmug account today, and have been playing with it.

I'm VERY interested in an automated pbase to smugmug conversion.

jdfaith

Andy wrote:

Hi John,

A good friend of mine tried the basics, got pretty far, and then stalled b/c he ran into roadblocks on the pbase side. I'll check with another one of our hackers to see if he might be able to pick up the work...

Hi Andy,

Gracias!

John

crenner

Any word?

Andy wrote:

A good friend of mine tried the basics, got pretty far [with a pbase to smugmug conversion tool], and then stalled b/c he ran into roadblocks on the pbase side. I'll check with another one of our hackers to see if he might be able to pick up the work...

Andy -

I don't know if you have heard any word on this, but this is just a bump to see if you have.

In the meantime, I am ATTEMPTING to tackle this problem myself. Please see the following topic on the threads: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=41813

My attempt was for some quick easy coding, and it has been anything but. It will easily take me weeks to get a working solution for myself, and that is far from being a stable, well testing application with an installer, error trapping, logging, and progress indicators.

If there is a working solution, it would save me MASSIVE amounts of labor.

- crenner
My picture sites:
http://www.pbase.com/crenner (I've actually put work into these)
http://crenner.smugmug.com (pretty much raw uploads at this time, and none of the pictures or galleries from pbase are duplicated here at this time)
http://nicole.rennerfamily.org (front-end using PHP scripts for my pbase galleries of my daughter - this gives me extra customization, though I have done very little with it at this time)

crenner

Alpha version of basetosmug available

jdfaith wrote:

I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way of "automating" the move of Pbase content to Smugmug.

There is now an alpha version of basetosmug available. See this thread on the forums:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=42215

Andy