Downloading/backing up photos in Gallery 2

dotvicky

Joined: 2004-05-25
Posts: 34
Posted: Sun, 2006-01-15 14:56

I'm probably being really dense but is there an easy way to take a copy of all the photos in Gallery 2?

My friend is going abroad for a while and will be uploading photos to their album and I want to download them to keep them safe on an offline machine.

Cheers
Vicky

 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2006-01-15 15:29

just copy the g2data/albums folder, download it via ftp or so.

 
dotvicky

Joined: 2004-05-25
Posts: 34
Posted: Sun, 2006-01-15 15:37

Ah - okay... I thought it might be that. Only downside is that it'd have to be via FTP... not the end of the world but I thought there might hvae been some online maintenance module or something.

 
valiant

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Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2006-01-15 15:52

you can use the download as zip cart option, but that wouldn't preserve the hierarchy of your albums and it could fail with too many images.

 
dotvicky

Joined: 2004-05-25
Posts: 34
Posted: Sun, 2006-01-15 16:07

Ah okay - I don't need to preserve the hierarchy. Do you have a rough idea of the number of images that would make it fail? I don't think this is going to be an enormous album.

(Thanks for your help, by the way.)

 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2006-01-15 17:30

depends on your server... just try.