Background: I own a small business that has been doing Umbraco development for 2+ years. My customer needed to have an export of all of their media (pdf files & images). There were several thousand media items + folders.
My experience: The media export tool worked well if my customer chose the Folder alias and anything that had an alias within the media type as umbracoFile.
Failures: If the media type had an umbracoFile alias but did NOT contain a file, it yellow screened. If the media type did not contain an umbracoFile alias AND was not aliased as Folder, it yellow screened. If the umbracoFile had the same name in the same folder, it yellow screened.
Suggestion: Better conditional logic? If there is no umbracoFile alias within the media type, treat it as a folder. (and do not require Folder as a media type). In other words, if it doesn't have a valid umbracoFile... it's a folder. Also, skip (rather than error) any duplicate file names within the same folder (a nice try catch perhaps).
Nice to have: the ability to right click on the top level (Media) and export.
Bottom Line: I got what I needed for my customer, so I'm OK now... but it would be nice if it hadn't yellow screened as much. Nice add-on, and I will use it and remember it exists!!! Thank you.
Thank you + Suggestions
Umbraco Version: 4.7.1
Background: I own a small business that has been doing Umbraco development for 2+ years. My customer needed to have an export of all of their media (pdf files & images). There were several thousand media items + folders.
My experience: The media export tool worked well if my customer chose the Folder alias and anything that had an alias within the media type as umbracoFile.
Failures: If the media type had an umbracoFile alias but did NOT contain a file, it yellow screened. If the media type did not contain an umbracoFile alias AND was not aliased as Folder, it yellow screened. If the umbracoFile had the same name in the same folder, it yellow screened.
Suggestion: Better conditional logic? If there is no umbracoFile alias within the media type, treat it as a folder. (and do not require Folder as a media type). In other words, if it doesn't have a valid umbracoFile... it's a folder. Also, skip (rather than error) any duplicate file names within the same folder (a nice try catch perhaps).
Nice to have: the ability to right click on the top level (Media) and export.
Bottom Line: I got what I needed for my customer, so I'm OK now... but it would be nice if it hadn't yellow screened as much. Nice add-on, and I will use it and remember it exists!!! Thank you.
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