Hi

I have a top level album with 7 sub-albums of my photographic work.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/c2rs28u

Now I'd like to create new sub-albums for my paintings too.

Rather than have these sub-albums mixed with my photography sub-albums I think I'd like to separate them.

So I need to create a new album at the top level for Photography and drag my photography sub-albums into it.

And then create a new album for Paintings and start adding new sub-albums in there.

I have tried but when I browsed to my photography images some seemed to be missing so I put everything back and all seems ok now.

What is this the best way to do it?

Many Thanks

There is actually two ways to do this:
a) Set the main albums tab to show the sub levels as well and drag them under the desired album.

b) Use the move/copy/rename functions on each album's edit page on the right.

Technically there is also c) Move them via FTP but then you will loose any manual editied data like titles, comments, ratings you might have.

http://www.zenphoto.org/news/working-with-albums-and-images#moving-copying-and-renaming-images-and-albums-with

Thanks for the prompt reply acrylian.

I'll give it a go again
Pete

Hi

I just moved a sub-album into a newly created top level album called 'photography' using your suggested technique (b) above.

The sub-album did move. But all but 2 of its 15 photos didn't display.

I compared the img src in the html for the 2 that were present. That looked fine. e.g.

src="/cache/photography/london-village-project/dsc_0068-copy_w652_h800.jpg" alt="dsc_0068-copy" width="652" height="800"

But the same html for the missing images was similar to this

src="/zp-core/i.php?a=photography%2Flondon-village-project&i=dsc_0033-copy.jpg&w=800&h=528&q=75&wmk=%21&check=c6e5068e9f35bfeb00a7443693ebee16d0450e72&" alt="dsc_0033-copy" width="800" height="528"

Does this give you a clue as to the problem?

Thanks
pete

The 2nd is the url to the image processor that creates cached images (link above). As the images are moved they need to be cached. The cache folder structure mirrors the albums structure. You can look via FTP if all images have been moved correctly.

Depding on your server and the dimensions of those images that can take a while. In any case if something seems not to work, first look into the error logs.

Thanks.

All done. First I moved each of the sub-albums and their images into the photography album using FTP. Then in the Admin area I used the move function on each sub-album's edit page on the right.

All looks good. Thanks for your help.

Ok, be aware that moving via FTP will not carry titles and descriptions added after uploading. If that does not matter it's of course no problem.