Solved Best way to transfer media

Hi,
I have successfully migrated from PGV 4.2.4 (PHP 5.4.45) to WT 1.7.2 using provided wizard.
What would be the best way to transfer the media files (this isn't supported by the wizard).
Best

As is instructed in the notes and in the wiki - move your media over to the correct folder and check permissions.
If you did it right, all will be in order.

Thanks ToyGuy,
Can you please provide the instructions url?
I couldn't find them
Best

How did you search??

I clicked "Wiki" from the top menu here, then searched for "Media" and these are the relevant pages:
wiki.webtrees.net/en/Converting_from_PhpGedView

This transfer wizard is not able to assist with moving media items. You will need to set up your media configuration in webtrees and move or copy your media objects separately after the transfer wizard is finished. webtrees stores media files slightly differently to PGV. See the Media Firewall page for details.

And that indeed doesn't lead anywhere. Perhaps this is a better page in the wiki about this subject:
wiki.webtrees.net/en/Media_Management

But you can configure where your media files from PGV were stored, and link them again.

> What would be the best way to transfer the media files (this isn't supported by the wizard).

Copy them from where they are now, to where they need to go?

We don't know how you have configured either PGV or webtrees, so we cannot give you a folder name. PGV allowed you to include (or exclude) the media path. It also allowed media files to be in multiple locations. Only you know where your files are now.

Also, we don't know whether or not your media files (as defined in your GEDCOM data) contain paths, etc.

For webtrees, you can see the "Media folder" setting in the family tree preferences page. The filenames referenced in your GEDCOM file should be placed here.

Thanks guys,
I haven't specifically configured anything.
Could you please let me know what information you need and I'll provide it?
Best

> Could you please let me know what information you need and I'll provide it?

Find two folders.

1) where are your media files now?
2) what is the "Media folder", defined in the family tree preferences.

Copy all the files from (1) into (2).

1) /www/phpGedView/media
2) /home/elfersi/www/webtrees/data/ then media/
I've copied all the files from 1) to 2)
But when I click any individual X, it says: 'The file “media/X.JPG” does not exist."
Can you please help?

I guess that individual X is linked to media object Y, and that media object Y contains

1 FILE media/X.JPG

In PGV, this path "media/" was optional. X.JPG was treated the same as media/X.JPG.

If this is the case, you need to remove "media/" from each of your files. There's a qucik/easy way to do this. Export your data to a GEDCOM file. Import it again - but when you do, there is an option "media path to remove". Enter "media/"

That worked! Thanks so much for your help

Problem solved.

I know this is a year-old solved Topic, but just wanted to give a big "Thank You" to Greg for this. I had a /media/ directory and subdirectories in use on my PhpGedView installation, and after using the conversion wizard (which worked well, BTW) the media situation was driving me crazy. The 60 or so images in the base media/ directory worked fine, but the other 300 items in subdirectories were fubar. Attempts at editing individual records in Media Manager failed because each database entry already contained "media/media/".

If I'd found Greg's post sooner, I could have saved myself a lot of time, and very nearly an attempt at manually editing the mySQL data...which likely would not have gone well.

Thanks, Greg!

fisharebest wrote: I guess that individual X is linked to media object Y, and that media object Y contains

1 FILE media/X.JPG

In PGV, this path "media/" was optional. X.JPG was treated the same as media/X.JPG.

If this is the case, you need to remove "media/" from each of your files. There's a qucik/easy way to do this. Export your data to a GEDCOM file. Import it again - but when you do, there is an option "media path to remove". Enter "media/"

Hi williams,

Good to hear you've got it sorted. Welcome to webtrees!

Greg