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bill61 Member
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hi developers

i thing i have made a mistake from the begining of creating my folders.

for example : Audios and Podcasts

is this name folder should be like this: Audios_and_Podcasts instead of : Audios and Podcasts ??

regards

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  • sbillard Member
    "Audios and Podcasts" should work as a folder name. Are you having problems with it?
  • bill61 Member
    hi sbillard

    not realy, but i was a bit cautious about this

    thanks
  • invarbrass Member
    I think Audios-and-Podcasts is a better option SEO-wise.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    invarbrass is right there regarding SEO friendlyness.
  • bill61 Member
    hi acrylian and invarbrass

    thanks for that

    but the thing now is very complicated.

    if i change the folders names in my ftp directory all descriptions and titles i have made will be lost.

    for me to re-do all the descriptions and titles again it will take me weeks to do it and it is a very complicated work.

    now, if i do this " changing the folders names" from inside the database do u thing i will lost my folders descriptions and titles as well??
  • sbillard Member
    The move/change/rename feature is still in the works. Other than that, you will either have to live with the names you chose or change the Database record for the albums when you change the folder names.
  • bill61 Member
    hi sbillard

    i am not in the hurry

    i will wait until The move/change/rename feature are ready
  • invarbrass Member
    There are several mass filename rename utilities on the net. Most of them will do what you require. Just batch rename all your folders.. i.e. replace " " with "-". These are windows only programs though.

    As for updating the tables, there are a few options:

    Perhaps you could find a database management console for mysql that can batch rename/modify all your folder names in the database (using regular expressions perhaps) I'm not sure about it though.

    Alternatively you could SQL dump the albums table, regex the folder names using a competent text editor, and put the modified SQL data back into mysql?

    Another, albeit more elegant, solution would be to write a small php script which reads all the album data, modifies it according to your requirements, and then updates the table. I'd go with this route if I were you.

    This is just my brain dump as to how to achieve what you want to do with your albums. Nothing concrete, just some ideas.

    BTW, I just found out, zp works well with hyphens. I.e., if your folder is named "my-album", zen photo will show the name as "my album"! This gives you the both of best worlds! I'm using todays nightly build.
  • bill61 Member
    hi invarbrass

    thanks for the suggestions

    i have so many to change, i thing i will give it a bit more of time untill developers find a solution in admin to change folders names / sub-folders names without losing any data.

    it is a very usefull info u gave me but it is a bit of complicated work i guess.

    regards
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