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  • John 115 posts 150 karma points
    Jul 26, 2010 @ 13:32
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    Bulk upload of Images

    Hello there, I am noobie doing my first Umbraco site.

    I have several hundred images to insert into my media section.

    It seems to me that you cannot just upload images to the ftp, they have to be inserted into the database too?

    I have found this http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/zip-upload which is a package that grabs them from a ZIP....convenient, however it is for version 4 rather than 4.5!

    Does anyone know how this is done? It'd be nice just to be able to FTP rather than going the long way around.

    (I'd naturally like to know why we can't just FTP and have it see the images, but I am sure there is some logical reason for this as there are greater minds at work on this thing than mine)

    Thank you kindly for any assistance

  • Matt Brailsford 4125 posts 22223 karma points MVP 9x c-trib
    Jul 26, 2010 @ 14:25
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    Hey Nacho,

    I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure zip upload should work with 4.5, as I think it uses the API to save the media items, which hasn't changed. There are a couple of other packages that can also be quit usefull such as

    Multi File Upload
    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/multiple-file-upload (You'll need a tweak to get it working though, look in the project forums)

    Gecko Uploadify
    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/gecko-uploadify

    Import Media
    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/import-media

    Unfortunatley, as you've found, you can't just upload files to the media folder. The reason is that Umbraco needs to have a handle on all your files, so in order to do this, they need to go through the media section.

    One to keep an out for is my Desktop Media Uploader which should hopefully be released some time in August, which will allow you to bulk upload items to your media section directly from your desktop. Untill then, I reckon the above packages are your best bet.

    Matt

  • John 115 posts 150 karma points
    Jul 26, 2010 @ 14:52
    John
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    Thanks Matt!

    Now I think about it, I guess the reason Umbraco likes to track the images rather than ftping is so that changing filenames won't create broken references. At least that's what just occured to me anyway. So I can see that's a good thing.

    The Desktop Media Uploader sounds exciting :)

    Gecko Uploadify looks like the trick :)

    Started trying the tweak for the zip upload but decided too much reading!

    ... (hour glass)... dang it, Gecko doesn't work in Opera...(hour glass)...dang it, Crashes in Chrome after about 20 uploads...

    Import Media doesn't yet work for 4.5

    I guess I'll log some bug reports...and some tweaking to do so I can do the zip one :)

    Thanks again Matt

     

  • dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points
    Jul 26, 2010 @ 16:22
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    Hi Nacho

    I've answered over in the other thread, but I can't seem to replicate the opera/chrome issues you're having..  Hopefully we can get this sorted!

    Dan

  • John 115 posts 150 karma points
    Jul 27, 2010 @ 02:00
    John
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    For anyone who stumbles across this thread. Gecko Uploadify is a good solution. It appears the bugs are related to my install at this stage rather than the package (something I am currently working through). Thank you all.

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