Tweaked KomodoDrop
mbellot
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Recently I sent Roland an email about adding a new feature to KomodoDrop. I never heard back from him so I decided to take a stab at it myself... :rofl
I downloaded the source and "tweaked" it to add a new upload function that I really need for the way I upload in large batches.
Its an extension of the recursive folder upload function that takes all the images in a group of folders and puts them in a single gallery.
My version automatically creates one gallery per folder (with the folder name) and uploads pictures from each folder to its specific gallery.
As an example:
..\..\SmugMug
..\..\..\Pics1
..\..\..\Pics2
..\..\..\Pics3
If you point the upload function to "SmugMug", it will queue up all the images in Pics1, Pics2 and Pics3.
It will then create three new galleries (using the category and subcategory specified) named Pics1, Pics2 and Pics3.
Finally, the contents of each folder gets placed in the gallery of the same name.
Pictures in the directory "SmugMug" will be ignored.
If any of the directories is empty you will end up with corresponding empty galleries on SmugMug.
Nested directories (sub-directories in Pics1, Pics2 or Pics3 of the above example) should be avoided since it will put those in the same category/subcategory location as the other new galleries AND replicate the pictures into the upper level gallery (Pics1-3) as well.
Nested directories also has an odd side effect on the percentage complete calculation which makes the displayed percentage meaningless. It doesn't appear to do any harm (other than photo replication), but I would strongly recommend keeping the directory structure simple.
Is this modification of interest to any other KomodoDrop users (besides me)?
I'm trying to figure out how/where to host it if there is interest, but before I get too deep into figuring it out I thouhgt I would guage the response.
I downloaded the source and "tweaked" it to add a new upload function that I really need for the way I upload in large batches.
Its an extension of the recursive folder upload function that takes all the images in a group of folders and puts them in a single gallery.
My version automatically creates one gallery per folder (with the folder name) and uploads pictures from each folder to its specific gallery.
As an example:
..\..\SmugMug
..\..\..\Pics1
..\..\..\Pics2
..\..\..\Pics3
If you point the upload function to "SmugMug", it will queue up all the images in Pics1, Pics2 and Pics3.
It will then create three new galleries (using the category and subcategory specified) named Pics1, Pics2 and Pics3.
Finally, the contents of each folder gets placed in the gallery of the same name.
Pictures in the directory "SmugMug" will be ignored.
If any of the directories is empty you will end up with corresponding empty galleries on SmugMug.
Nested directories (sub-directories in Pics1, Pics2 or Pics3 of the above example) should be avoided since it will put those in the same category/subcategory location as the other new galleries AND replicate the pictures into the upper level gallery (Pics1-3) as well.
Nested directories also has an odd side effect on the percentage complete calculation which makes the displayed percentage meaningless. It doesn't appear to do any harm (other than photo replication), but I would strongly recommend keeping the directory structure simple.
Is this modification of interest to any other KomodoDrop users (besides me)?
I'm trying to figure out how/where to host it if there is interest, but before I get too deep into figuring it out I thouhgt I would guage the response.
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