[solved] Bypassing File Manager and using ftp to upload images?

[cnymike]

Is there any reason that I couldn't create some directories by using my ftp client in /uploads/images and then using ftp to upload a boatload of images? Or would doing this screw up the database in some way?

[Signex]

i do this all the time, never had problems, make sure you give uploaded files the right file permissions though

[Dr.CSS]

It's the only way I do it...

[cnymike]

OK, it worked well. But the downside (I guess) is that uploading through the image manager generated thumbnail images, while uploading via ftp does not result in thumbnails getting generateed. This makes sense of course, but I'm just wondering if I'm going to miss not having the thumbnails.

Apparently I can resize the image using XHTML width and height to create a pseudo-thumbnail, but the downside of that is the full size image is still being used. Whereas the real thumbnail that is being generated by the image browser is just that... a small thumbnail.

Oh well.

[Dr.CSS]

Surprise    if you go to Image manager and look at the images it makes the thumbnails automatically for you 'woo woo' if you have sub folders open them also, any image you look at in IM will have a thumb created for it

[cnymike]

Mark, if I go to Image Manager, click on a folder then click on one of the files (that i've uploaded via ftp) in that folder  a thumbnail  -does not-  get generated once the image has been viewed.

Is this a setting somewhere that I may have not turned on or something?

[Dee]

Is this a setting somewhere that I may have not turned on or something?

Not that I know of, the webserver will need write access to the folder in order to save the thumbnail though.

Regards,
D

[cnymike]

Hmmm, this is weird.

My image directories are all set to 777.

When I view the directories in my ftp program, I see the thumbs. But when I view the directories in the Image Manager, I do not see the thumbs. What the?

[cnymike]

I also just noticed that as soon as I view just a single image from a particular directory in Image Manager, then -all- of the files get thumbnails generated immediately... but as I mentioned before, I only "see" them in ftp, but not in the Image manager itself. Must be the way the template is designed to show the contents of the directory while using Image Manager I guess.

[Dr.CSS]

Oh yea I forgot to mention IM doesn't show the thumbs, if you go in through an editor when in page edit mode you will see them or as you discovered using FTP...