major upgrade to gallery

[gxenakis]

I want to upgrade a joomla website from version 1.5 to 1.7. The point is to also upgrade the gallery to the latest version. However I have a large photo gallery and I do not want to loose this gallery!!!

The gallery is constantly updated by adding new photos and unpublished old photos. The old photos are not removed or deleted by they are unpublished. If I move the files from the old gallery to the new a large number of unpublished photos will be displayed again. I need a way to move all the published photos from the gallery to the new website.

Any help on this ?

[Jan]

Hi, for now there is no migration script, so you can use:

- multiple add function (as you wrote there can be problems with not published images)
- or manually export/import the database and files (while importing database, new columns must be checked and filled in)

But for now I didn't find time to make migration script so cannot give specific advice

Jan

[gxenakis]

I think that I found a work around on this!

I can sort all the unpublished images and then delete the images through the Phoca admin. If these function deletes also the images from the folders my problem is solved!

Then I can download the folders through ftp I'll do some tests to verify this works.

[Jan]

Ok

[gxenakis]

tried it, test it, didn't work!

when I delete an image through the phoca gallery admin, the image remains to the folder!

[Jan]

Hi, while deleting filename in administration you are deleting an item in database not a file on the server (sometimes one file is used by many items) Check if the file is not used by other item.

Jan