adding in pre-existing files
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tymanthius
Joined: 2012-05-01
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Posted: Tue, 2012-05-01 04:58
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I just found this tool/program and I LOVE it. Bye Bye Picasa! I do have a question however. I have about 100Gb of pictures already on my server at /media/photos. I know I can do a 'server add' and that will put the pictures into Gallery3, but it also seems to copy the pictures into gallery's ~/var/ directory. That creates duplicates of the images. What I would like to know is if I can add all the photos in /media/photos to Gallery3 WITHOUT having them duplicated, and what this would mean if I do. Would the files be safe from modifications (assuming I put in proper permissions)? Many of the files are RAW format (already added the raw module). Thanks so much for any info. Side note: Found this project when I went looking for a frame that could read from my server off the local lan. Apparently, there is no such animal. But many frames read rss, and that is even more convenient as I can now give such a frame to grandparents and have my pictures on my machine. :D |
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After a lot of reading on the forums, it appears that this is not currently possible. Oh well. Good thing hd's are cheap.
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Gallery2 can do sym links but not G3 afaik
but G3 does have a module to allow external content like Amazon S3 bucket http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:aws_s3
maybe you could adapt for your needs. Or simple try G2
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2
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Honestly, I don't want to deal with the complexity of G2, especially as it appears that G3 is the future of the project. And I'm too lazy to try and adapt a different module, esp. as I'm not a programmer. :D
But thanks for the advice. As I said, HD's are cheap enough, I can just deal w/ dupes.