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Description lost when copying album

pled Member
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Hello,

I am using zenphoto version 1.2.5 [4022], and just noticed the following :

- when moving albums, all is fine (I classified all my albums in sub-albums, all went perfectly, fast and efficient).
- but when copying an album, comments are lost (the description field)

Is that a known issue ?
Thanks.

Thanks

Comments

  • sbillard Member
    Not a known issue, but you should try the 1.2.6 release to see if the problem still exists.
  • pled Member
    yes, the same with zenphoto version 1.2.6 [4335]
  • sbillard Member
    Just ran a test. The description came along with the copy both images and albums.
  • pled Member
    Strange : it is systematic here, both on my online album and locally on my PC. The "steps" are the following :

    Let say I want to copy Album1/SubAlbum1/AlbumToCopy to Album2/SubAlbum2.

    When a AlbumToCopy is displayed, I select "Modify album" from the admin menu (top-right), then from the album Tab I select copy radio button, and choose another sub-album (

    The following happens :

    - Album description is fine (copied)
    - Images descriptions are lost
    - Comments are lost

    Let me know if you want me to check something else.
    Thanks.
  • sbillard Member
    Sorry, but you are describing something that I do not recognize. Where are you finding "Modify album" and "AlbumToCopy"?
  • pled Member
    Sorry if I was not clear enough (may be too detailled for a basic operation).

    "AlbumToCopy" in my example is only the album name, located into some subalbum like for example "/Album1/SubAlbum1".
    When that album is displayed, I use the administration menu (the javascript "admin_data") displayed in the rop right corner when you are loggued, and select "Modify Album" => just a way to access quicker to the right admin page.
    The "Modify Album" page is then displayed (admin-edit.php?page=edit&album=). On the right side, I select "Copy" and select the destination, for example "/Album2/SubAlbum2".

    As said, the new album copied has still the album decription, but all images have lost their data (description, place, city, country, etc... + comments).
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Ok, that link is actually named "Edit album" so we did not know what you meant. We will try to reproduce this.
  • Damien Member
    I'm almost experiencing the same problems. I updated from 1.2.3 to 1.2.6. I've moved some albums to a sub-albums. I've lost all the comments, description, ... How can I do to restore all the comments ? Now I've updated, I can't restore and I've an error when I try to restore.

    What can I do ?

    Thx
  • sbillard Member
    I can verify this issue now that I have the full description of how to reproduce it. I will contact the author of this feature and see if he can find a quick fix.
  • majo Member
    I remember a checkbox in the admin setting that enables display of titles/comments for upload files. I was looking to keep the file datalog from CanonEos.
  • sbillard Member
    There is no such option (never has been one.) But if you place your titles in the IPTC headline and your comments in the IPCT description of the image Zenphoto will use them.
  • sbillard Member
    Please try tonight's nightly build. I believe I have fixed this problem.
  • pled Member
    hello,

    Using build 1.2.6 [4373], all image data information is correctly copied when copying album.

    But Comments are still lost.

    You are on the right way...
  • sbillard Member
    I don't really think that comments should be copied when you copy an album. The copied album is really new, as are the images in it. So there would of course not have been any comments posted to them.
  • pled Member
    I see your point. In my case, here is the reason why I had to copy some albums :

    While reorganizing all my albums (all were at the root level, no sub-albums, flat model), I created sub-albums to sort albums depending on the content, such as "Sport" and "Family".

    Doing that, I noticed some albums where the content was including both pictures from a week-end with family AND a moutain bike ride. Thus I wanted to split such album in two separates albums, one into "Family" sub-album and the moutain bike ride into the "Sport" one.

    The only way to reach this was to move then copy such album (one move, one copy), then removing unwanted pictures from each of the two new albums. In that scenario, I would expect to keep comments.

    But I agree this is a little bit specific usage of the copy feature. So... may be the best would be an option to check for comments to be copied when copying an album ?

    Anyway, thanks for the fix about data image.
    Great support, as always.
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