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I really love the multiple add functionality but how come i cant delete the uploaded picture history?

Now i have an huge list with all my old pictures.



As in the picture and that list is huge...

is there any way to solve this?

Regards,
Mark S.

I really love the multiple add functionality but how come i cant delete the uploaded picture history? ... there is no picture history... you can see the listed image filenames on your server. From this image filenames thumbnails will be created in case you select them... If you want to delete them, you can do it with help of FTP or Media manager...

Jan

Thanks for the fast replay, maybe you could make some button that can delete all these files at once? because if you made those thumbs you don't need those files any more i guess?

Maybe you can change the way the uploaded pictures are been handled?

- upload folder: /images/phoca/temp/
Folder where the pictures go when you upload them by ftp,flash,frontend

- originals folder: /images/phoca/original/
If the user sets "save original" that pictures go here

- thumbnails folder: /images/phoca/thumbnails
All the small and medium thumbs are in this folder.

then build an setting that says: Save original picture yes/no
and the temp folder is empty every time the pictures are being processed... so the image processor deletes all images from temp folder when finished creating thumbnails.

This is just an suggestion, hope you like it.

could make some button that can delete all these files - gallery is not a file manager... if I will implement all file manager functions, and other functions and, and... maybe new joomla will be created...

there is very very difficult system to store images which make possible to save data in folders and subfolder (categories and subcategories)

- original files:
folder/original-files
folder/subfolder/original-files

- thumbnails:
folder/thumbs/thumbnail files
folder/subfolder/thumbnail files

tmp folder is here: tmp/

There are min. 4 ways how to upload images: via FTP, via Media Manager, via other manager, via frontend, via backend (add, multiple add), so there cannot be some function to save original picture - yes or no... original pictures are saved on your disc and are used for creating or recreating thumbnails... if you upload the original images via FTP, Phoca Gallery have no rights to manipulate with them (only with thumnails which has created)...

Jan

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The usefulness of Multiple upload is gone if everything you ever uploaded is the
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The images can be used while using the site (why to remove them... if you want to remove them, just use the media manager or ftp)... Most of users are using the DOWNLOAD function of Phoca Gallery... This function allows users to download the original images from the site... So what will be downloaded if you delete the images?

Otherwise this has been a fairly good project Do you mean, that if I will remove the possibility to download pictures from the Phoca Gallery site, it will be better project?

Jan

yes but its not that we don't want to delete the pictures but if they al stay in that list its getting a bit messy.

and the list wil be huge in time.

We love this component for the different kind of ways we can upload pictures, its awesome really.

But how the uploaded pictures get handled needs some more improvements.

And if you like i can give you some suggestions how i thing it will be better.

Hi,
I have experienced that same problem , I totally understand Jan's point but please let me suggest one thing that could fix this small issue without rewriting the whole script:

would be possile to modify the upload button making it upload images and adding them to the selected gallery at the same time?
we would have the same one big list of images but we would not need to go/find/and select every single image we want to add to that category....

by the way great work Jan keep it up...

Markstag
the list shows your files on your server, if you want to have order there, you should add the images into the folders... but e.g. an image can be added into more categories, so it can be used after adding it into a category (nonsense to delete it)...

the problem is, the gallery can be used many other ways, so if you think, you change e.g. the list behaviour and it will work great for you, other user who e.g. add one picture into more categories, will lose this possibility... Other user will lose automatically updating of category (if he has created e.g. folders and he will upload new image into the folder and click on this folder with multiple add function, the category will be updaded - all old images will be not added and only new images will be added)... As I said, the listed images are not only uploaded images, it is a list of all images stored on your server and this list is necessary for functions which other users need.

alexo101
folders = category... there is a powerful function, you can build your gallery on your disc and then upload the folder structure into your server... with multiple add, all folders will be categories, all subfolders will be subcategories and all images will be added into the gallery... if you add new image into your server, into a folder, then just select this folder, click on multiple add and your category will be updated...

upload images and adding them to the selected gallery at the same time - will be problem because of different kinds of uploading and because of the whole adding framework

Markstag
And if you like i can give you some suggestions how i thing it will be better - would be great, any suggestions are appreciated

hi,
I tried what you suggested :

I manually uploaded via ftp a folder (FOLDER1) to images/phocagallery,
I created a new category for these images (CATEGORY1)
I clicked on multiple add
I saw the folder uploaded (FOLDER1), selected it, selected the new category(CATEGORY1) and clicked on save
The thumbnail creation process started

I got a subfolder with all my images: my new category (category1) was empy and I got a new subcategory (category1/folder1) with all my images ---> first question: how can I put all the images in my folder1 inside the category1 without getting a subcategory?

second question : can I avoid to use ftp , can I upload an entire folder using the backend phoca administration panel ?

thanks Jan

avoid to use ftp - yes you can, you can upload images via media manager or other file manager in joomla, you can use the upload form in add or multiple add in Phoca Gallery

if you add the following structure into a gallery

first-category/image.jpg
first-category/image2.jpg
first-category/first-subcategory/image3.jpg
second-category/image4.jpg

if you select all folders (first-category, second-category) and click on multiple add, all images will be added and new categories will be created (you need not to add category manually)

category:
first-category which will have subcategory: first-subcategory
and
second category will be created...