Another picture upload question...
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nmiller0113
Joined: 2007-08-17
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Posted: Fri, 2007-08-17 00:28
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I'm new to this and was wondering if there was a way to point the Gallery 2 software to a local drive on the same server which contains all of my photos in their own directories? Will it just go through them all and create libraries/galleries along with thumbnails per specs I set ahead of time? Then does it have a feature to dynamically update as I add more pictures to the directory? What I'm trying to find out is whether or not it is going to just make a copy of all my pictures and place them somewhere else on the Server when all I need is for the server to display them and create thumbnails based on a partition I've already created and organized and currently share my pictures from internally as well for my Media Center. If there is a specific name for this kind of setup could someone please tell me what it is so I don't have to give this long winded explanation. Thanks everyone...I hope this made sense! Nathan |
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afaik, G2 will always replicate items into ~/g2data/albums/ and when using the "From Local Server" option in Edit Album > Add Items - it can recursively fetch items and replicate the directory structure as albums. are you planning to run Gallery 2 on a Windows machine?
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Not sure if I understand what you mean...sorry I'm a newbie here. Maybe it would be better for me just to tell you what I've got and what I'm trying to accomplish...
I've got:
Windows 2003 Enterprise Server w/ a 2tb Raid 10 Array with pics in one of the Shared Folder w/ many subfolders of pics. I also have other Shared Folders containing videos. This, for all intents and purposes, is my file server.
What I'm trying to accomplish:
Well I want to be able to share my pictures from this server over the web. Maybe even some videos. I've looked at about 1000 different product options and I've realized I don't need anything too fancy. The features I'm looking for is a program that I can just tell where my current picture file structure is and it will sort through it, make thumbnails...etc. I don't really want it to create a whole new file structure for my pics as this could take days and then it would double the amount of pics I have until I remove the ones it loaded to the site. I hope that makes sense.
I would like to have control over who can download the pics and I'd like the persons who do download to be able to select multiple pics and download them as a zipped file. I also like to be able to e-mail pictures and such via the interface.
An example of something I liked was the Absolute Image Gallery XE, but what turned me off to that was the price, but I liked a lot of its features. It was only lacking a Zip File function. I hope that makes more sense...Maybe Gallery won't do it...I don't know...maybe another product is fit for me....You guys are the experts so I'm hoping you have some thoughts. Thanks again!
Nathan