Mass upload from server file system

[0ptima]

I would like to see an option to allow mass uploading of images and videos from the server's filesystem.

This would be a great option to have for people who cover events and take lots of pictures or have very large video files that are too big to upload with a browser.

Once the media is uploaded to the server with a FTP client, the user would would select the "upload from server" option, enter the category, the title and description and XMG would process everything in the folder.

 

[eDaddi]

Hell yes.

This would be super easy with the code base already there.

43 and counting. What number does it take?

 

[Seeker-Smith]

One problem I see is transcoding large batches of videos. Its server intensive and slow.

 

[VMExpert]

As I understand it, this is not yet implemented in the gallery? (even for photos)

 

[CoZmicShReddeR]

I remember Coppermine was one of my favorite Photo Gallery CMS it had a features for adding large folders of images

 

[Wildcat Media]

Upvoted. We don't have that many images compared to others (hundreds, not thousands), but right now I've had to download the entire batch of images to OneDrive, so our staff can split things up and upload them when they have time. It would have saved time to do a bulk import. The only issue is that with the images belonging in separate albums, it would be a lot more work to try to sort them if they were already uploaded. So any type of bulk import would need a target album and only for specific images, which would require some work on the server side to sort into directories if they were not sorted already.