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Hi Karl/Nick.

Can I move an entire folder with the admin interface to another position of the folder hierarchy ?

Regards,
Marco

Sorry, no, there are some technical reasons why we didn't implement it. Since Imagevue is file-based everything gets incredibly problematic. What If there is a folder with the same name in the target folder? etc.

Could you do it with some judicious editing of the XML files if you really felt need at some point?

Crash wrote:Could you do it with some judicious editing of the XML files if you really felt need at some point?

What's wrong with moving folders by means of a ftp-tool, like FileZilla e.g. .... ?

Martin wrote: What's wrong with moving folders by means of a ftp-tool, like FileZilla e.g. .... ?

What would happen to xml files ? The folder hierarchy is defined at xml level, if you modify the tree structure with an external tool (different from the default X2 admin), the risk of inconsistency might be significant.
If Nick confirms, I could try, but I am not going to risk (I have 4000 images online).

Crash wrote:Could you do it with some judicious editing of the XML files if you really felt need at some point?

Although Nick is the master in this area, I wouldn't recommend this approach. Imagevue is a folder-based XML gallery, where XML is updated an maintained to precisely mirror your file- and folder structure. Messing with the XML files will just be messing with the system ...

Crash wrote:What would happen to xml files ? The folder hierarchy is defined at xml level, if you modify the tree structure with an external tool (different from the default X2 admin), the risk of inconsistency might be significant.
If Nick confirms, I could try, but I am not going to risk (I have 4000 images online).

Actually, moving by FTP would be the correct way to do it. Imagevue would simply update your XML structure to reflect the true folder structure. This is how Imagevue differs from DB galleries, and is in fact one of the benefits because you have full freedom to change your physical folder structure as you like, and Imagevue will merely reflect this. Information about each folder is stored in an XML file inside the specific folder, so when you move the folder, you also move the XML file and keep all titles/descriptions and meta info ...

mjau-mjau wrote: Actually, moving by FTP would be the correct way to do it. Imagevue would simply update your XML structure to reflect the true folder structure. This is how Imagevue differs from DB galleries, and is in fact one of the benefits because you have full freedom to change your physical folder structure as you like, and Imagevue will merely reflect this.

Thanks Karl !

You can move/copy files within Imagevue but not the folders. For folders you better use FTP. Or just create a new folder and copy/move files.

Thinking of this I think we could make Imagevue to move folders in OS X fashion - so folder replaces the one with the same name completely with it's content. So we won't have to resolve file/xml conflicts.

Nick wrote:Thinking of this I think we could make Imagevue to move folders in OS X fashion - so folder replaces the one with the same name completely with it's content. So we won't have to resolve file/xml conflicts.

Perhaps with a warning prompt if over-writing?

I think it's awesome that Imagevue just reworks its index if you start moving folder around.

I imagined that would break something for sure. Thanks for the tip incase I need it in future.

mjau-mjau wrote:Perhaps with a warning prompt if over-writing?

With a warning prompt of course, this goes unsaid.

Nick wrote:With a warning prompt of course, this goes unsaid.

So why did you just say it then