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• Olivier Berger commented  ·  February 3, 2013 6:28 a.m.  ·  Delete

  It looks like using git-annex may help solve this issue of photos managed by openphoto in more or less the same place for all albums and the way users tend to organize them in their home folders...

  Still, I have to check the details.

• Jon Howell commented  ·  December 9, 2012 8:51 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Yup, I'd like it too. I've spent the last day configuring, installing, and debugging web galleries, trying to find one that'll let me keep my originals (and let me inject metadata from shotwell, but I'm willing to write a script to do that).

  Gallery3 has an optional module (folder_sync) that almost does what I want, but (a) it still copies every original, and (b) I don't like the resulting permission model (I can't mix public and private photos).

  I just got openphoto configured (after doing a little battle with apache and mysql), but I'm sad to see that this is still a limitation. I'm with others on this list: I don't actually want to poke at the UI, I just want something that makes my personal photo collection, which I manage with other software, web-accessible.

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  October 31, 2012 11:20 a.m.  ·  Delete

  @manut On upload the the original is stored along with a scaled version at 1280x1280 (aspect ratio maintained) and a 100x100 for the activity feed. All other sizes are generated (and cached) on request.

• manut commented  ·  October 31, 2012 11:16 a.m.  ·  Delete

  @Jmathai it's definetly sth. that can be hosted in a seperate repository.

  I just had a look at openphotos db schema. it should be quiet easy to feed the database from a python script.

  Are the scaled versions of the pictures generated during the upload process of openphoto, or will they be generated if i just add the path to the original picture into the database?

• Vinny Loyola commented  ·  October 19, 2012 10:53 a.m.  ·  Delete

  sorry to point you guy in another direction but this does just what you want: www.photoshow-gallery.com

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  October 16, 2012 10:14 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Fixed the link (https://github.com/photo/frontend/issues/613#issuecomment-5208771)

  This is probably something we definitely want to do. We don't have an official roadmap *yet* but we'll have to see where it goes.

  As always, if someone wants it bad enough we love pull requests :).

• manut commented  ·  October 16, 2012 2:27 a.m.  ·  Delete

  the link to your comment on github is dead.

• manut commented  ·  October 16, 2012 2:26 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I and many other users have organized their photos in a folder based structure for years. I understand, that it's much more comfortable to have tags and albums and all the photos can be kept at any location (folder on the filesystem, clout, etc.)

  But I don't want, that openphoto is the only viewer I can use on this data. I don't want to use a specific tool to find any of my photos. A shell or file explorer is all I need at the moment and I don't wan't to change that.

  I think it should be no big effort to make openphoto operating on a local file structure, instead of keeping all Images in one folder. Than a little scanner script, or something with inotify can detect changes on the filesystem and import the pictures automatically into openphoto.

  I believe that many new users would try openphoto if this feature would be available.

• Allards commented  ·  September 11, 2012 5:24 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I'd like to have this feature too, i even would like OpenPhoto to be able to scan multiple paths / services / folders.

• mcarrolle commented  ·  May 30, 2012 6:04 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I manage my photo without photo management software I use only folder.
  In case this feature will not be implemented, it will be great if we can choose a folder name (album name) to store uploaded photo in html/photo/original.

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  April 18, 2012 9:55 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Can everyone who voted on this feature have a look at this comment I left on Github and let me know if you have questions or disagree?

  https://github.com/photo/frontend/issues/613#issuecomment-5208771

• Jeff commented  ·  April 17, 2012 9:51 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @jmathai: did you ever have a discussion about this? Seems like an important feature given the promise OpenPhoto makes to allow you to store photos wherever you want. Why should users have to upload all their files to (yet another) server?

• Kwankyu commented  ·  April 2, 2012 4:15 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I added 3 votes. I hope OpenPhoto to be something like picasa plus subsonic.

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  December 15, 2011 1:50 a.m.  ·  Delete

  @Marco, Let's discuss this over email and then post back what our conclusion is. Drop me a note at jaisen@openphoto.me.

• Marco commented  ·  December 15, 2011 12:57 a.m.  ·  Delete

  @Jmathai, I am not sure what you mean by download it on my behalf. But providing a URL that is a file system path to the API and having openphoto store just the picture location on disc sounds like what I want.
  Thanks

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  December 14, 2011 4:17 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Adding this to the upload API in the next week :).

  You will be able to provide a URL to the photo and the API will download it on your behalf. Does that address your request?

• Marco commented  ·  December 14, 2011 3:38 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @Jmathai, thanks!
  I think the caveat though is how to avoid actually uploading (read copying) the picture which is already on the same disc. Is there an API to import a picture into the DB that bypasses uploading to the web server?
  Thanks

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  December 14, 2011 11:59 a.m.  ·  Delete

  @Marco, I understand now. That probably will wind up being some sort of script.

  Here is a working example, https://gist.github.com/1274061

• Marco commented  ·  December 14, 2011 11:18 a.m.  ·  Delete

  @Jmathai, I see the local FS adapters. However, I guess my request goes a bit beyond that. I'd like the database of photos to reflect the content of my folders. That is, I do not want to import (hence copy) my pictures from the NAS into OpenPhoto (which happens to run on the NAS already). I'd rather have the ability in OpenPhoto to scan the content of my folders.
  Thanks

• AdminJmathai (Hacker, The OpenPhoto Project) commented  ·  December 13, 2011 6:28 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @Ovidiu and @Darwin we have local file system adapters which would work for your own server and NAS devices which are attached as NFS drives.