Importing From Other Gallery Programs

Media Gallery provides the ability to import albums and images from other gallery programs. This feature could be used to evaluate Media Gallery. The Import Wizards do not update or disturb the original gallery program, so there is no risk in importing items into Media Gallery.

This import wizard will import all albums, media items and comments from an existing Inmemoriam Gallery installation. This wizard was written for Inmemoriam v1.01.

To begin the import, select Inmemoriam from the Import Menu under Media Gallery Administration.

• A list of all Inmemoriam albums will be displayed
• Select the checkbox of the albums you wish to import
• Click the save button to process the import

Media Gallery will immediately create the album structure from the Inmemoriam system and then will load all the images into the Batch Processing Queue to be processed by the Batch Process System.

You will be redirected to the Batch Processing screen and the import will continue.

Once the import is complete, you should have an exact copy of the items you had in your Inmemoriam albums, including titles, descriptions, hit counts and comments.

This import wizard will import all albums, media items and comments from an existing Geekary plugin installation. This wizard was written for Geekary vXX.

To begin the import, select Geekary from the Import Menu under Media Gallery Administration.

• A list of all Geekary albums will be displayed
• Select the checkbox of the albums you wish to import
• Click the save button to process the import

Media Gallery will immediately create the album structure from the Geekary system and then will load all the images into the Batch Processing Queue to be processed by the Batch Process System.

You will be redirected to the Batch Processing screen and the import will continue.

Once the import is complete, you should have an exact copy of the items you had in your Geekary albums, including titles, descriptions, hit counts and comments.

This import wizard will import all albums, media items from an existing Gallery v1 installation. This wizard was written for Gallery v1.4+.

To begin the import, select Gallery 1 from the Import Menu under Media Gallery Administration.

• You will be prompted to enter the absolute path to your Gallery albums/ directory. Click save to continue.
• A list of all Gallery albums will be displayed
• Select the checkbox of the albums you wish to import
• Click the save button to process the import

Media Gallery will immediately create the album structure from the Gallery system and then will load all the images into the Batch Processing Queue to be processed by the Batch Process System.

You will be redirected to the Batch Processing screen and the import will continue.

Once the import is complete, you should have an exact copy of the items you had in your Gallery albums, including titles and descriptions.

Please double check the album permissions to ensure they were imported correctly.

This import wizard will import all albums, media items from an existing Gallery v2 installation. This wizard was written for Gallery v2.1+.

To begin the import, select Gallery v2 from the Import Menu under Media Gallery Administration.

• You will be prompted for the following information which can be found in the config.php located in your Gallery 2 directory:
  • Hostname - hostname for MySQL database
  • Database - Name of the Gallery 2 database
  • Username - Database username
  • Password - Database password
  • Table Prefix - Gallery 2 table prefix
  • Column Prefix - Gallery 2 column prefix
  • Gallery v2 Base Directory
• Click save to continue.
• A list of all Gallery albums will be displayed
• Select the checkbox of the albums you wish to import
• Click the save button to process the import

Media Gallery will immediately create the album structure from the Gallery system and then will load all the images into the Batch Processing Queue to be processed by the Batch Process System.

You will be redirected to the Batch Processing screen and the import will continue.

Once the import is complete, you should have an exact copy of the items you had in your Gallery albums, including titles and descriptions.

Please double check the album permissions to ensure they were imported correctly.

This import wizard will import all albums, media items from an existing 4images installation. This wizard was written for 4images 1.7.3.

To begin the import, select 4Images from the Import Menu under Media Gallery Administration.

• You will be prompted for the following information which can be found in your 4images configuration file.
  • Database - Name of the 4images database
  • Database Prefix - 4Images Table Prefix
  • Database User - Database username
  • Database Password - Database password
  • 4images Root Path - This is the main directory for your 4images installation, it should contain the data/ directory.
• Click save to continue.
• A list of all 4images albums will be displayed
• Select the checkbox of the albums you wish to import
• Click the save button to process the import

Media Gallery will immediately create the album structure from the 4images system and then will load all the images into the Batch Processing Queue to be processed by the Batch Process System.

You will be redirected to the Batch Processing screen and the import will continue.

Once the import is complete, you should have an exact copy of the items you had in your 4images categories, including titles and descriptions.

Please double check the album permissions to ensure they were imported correctly.

This import wizard will scan all existing Geeklog stories and move any embedded images (using the [imageX] or [unscaledX] auto tag) into Media Gallery. The [imageX] auto tag will be replaced with a Media Gallery auto tag so the image will continue to display in the story.

When you choose to import these pictures, you have 4 options to configure:

• Which Media Gallery auto tag to use (media, image)
• Alignment for the auto tag (none, left, right, auto)
• Where to place the images (existing album or create an album based on story title)
• Whether or not to delete the images from the Geeklog /images/ directory after import.

If you select to create albums using the Story Title, Media Gallery will use the story's Intro Text field as the album description. Depending on how large this is, you may want to edit these after the import.

Media Gallery will automatically use the oimage: auto tag if the embedded tag is unscalled.

Media Gallery will also honor any existing alignment from the current imageX or unscaledX auto tags. If no alignment is specified, then it will use your choice for alignment from the attributes entered above.

THIS IMPORT WILL CHANGE ALL YOUR STORIES THAT CONTAIN EMBEDDED IMAGES Please ensure that you have a valid backup before running this import wizard.