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Hi

Is the Photo Album module supposed to auto generate a thumb nail?

Ange

Yes the first time you open a folder with large images you may notice it taking a few seconds for little images of images to appear this is it making thumbs in the background...

hi

i'm not actually getting any thumbs at all - is there a setting i have missed?

A

Have you FTPed to the site to see or are you not getting any in the Album, like all your images on the Album page are as big as when you uploaded them?...

"i'm not actually getting any thumbs at all" Just curious how you can tell, Image manager won't show them, file manager won't show them unless you tell it to...

If you are really not getting any then you need to use the Support Tool, in Tips and Tricks, to show what your settings are...

This is the part of config.php that handles images and thumb generation so you may need to make sure you have the requisite apps on your server, check with host, or read about it in the wiki as this says...

#--------------
#Image Settings
#--------------

#Which program should be used for handling thumbnails in the image manager.
#See http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ge_Manager for more
#info on what this all means
$config['image_manipulation_prog'] = 'GD';
$config['image_transform_lib_path'] = '/usr/bin/ImageMagick/';

#Default path and URL for uploaded images in the image manager
$config['image_uploads_path'] = '/home/maksbud/public_html/mark/uploads/images';  of course yours will match your set up...
$config['image_uploads_url'] = $config['root_url'] . '/uploads/images';

hi thanks - I will try that.

when I say I am not getting any i mean that when I select 'use thumb of this image'  all I see on the web page is text.

I can't show you at this point because its on localhost.

ta
Ange

Ah

I think we are at cross purposes, I am talking about the Module 'Album' which I have installed to use as a gallery.

A

The Album uses the same thumb generator as the rest of the system...

Which version of CMSMS are you running, you can use the Support Tool to tell which/if image handling software is installed on your server, which is what makes thumbs...

Sorry I just checked and it doesn't show that, but the 1.4 beta does it in the admin...

$config['image_manipulation_prog'] = 'GD';
$config['image_transform_lib_path'] = '/usr/bin/ImageMagick/';    This is the stuff that handles it, you may want to talk to your host and ask if you it or another one and maybe change your config.php to point to it...

Check permission on images folder, must have write permission for www-data, if you create folder from ftp usually has read/write permission for ftp user and read for every other (including www-data).

Well yes, but I had assumed they had set all file permissions correct in the first place, but you know what they say about assuming...