resolvedI have the "hide originals directory" option enabled. Somehow or another, over time I've ended up with 3 originals directories, each with photos from various times. This is obviously a problem if I ever want to rebuild any posts, as PhotoQ can't locate the original photos to work from.
Is there a safe way to consolidate these directories into one, and is there any way I could prevent the same from happening in the future?
Thanks. :)
ok, first of all this of course is not supposed to happen. so this must be due to a bug. you don't happen to know how you ended up with 3 originals directories?
rebuilding on the other hand should work. photoq knows where the original is located via the photoQPath custom field and it rebuilds published posts from there. for each of your photos the path in the photoQPath custom field should point to the original dir where the photos is located.
to consolidate the only way is to manually move the files to the correct place on the server and then update the photoQPath custom field for all the photos that moved accordingly (either via the wordpress editor or directly on the db). i can think of adding an option to automate this to a future version. but the best would be if it could be prevented from happening in the first place, so any insight into how i could reproduce this would be welcome. thanks.
I'm not sure. I'm thinking either I turned the "hide originals" option off and then turned it back on at one point, or some issue with upgrading PhotoQ and/or WordPress triggered it to create a new originals directory. At any rate, it's happening a lot considering there's now four different originals directories.
I've consolidated all the files into one originals directory, but I've got a year's worth of posts to go through to make sure all the paths are correct (and there's about 6 months worth of posts that I know don't have the right path). Is there an automatic way already available to correct the paths on these posts?
no, sorry. the only efficient way to do this that i see is to export the database to a text file, do a search and replace in this text file and import it again into the database.
if you do this just make sure that you have proper backups of everything.
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