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title: Quickly Import Multiples Images Using the Imagefield_Import Module
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date: 2010-05-29
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excerpt: How to use the Imagefield Import module.
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tags:
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- drupal-planet
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- imagefield-import
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- drupal
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- drupal-6
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- photo-gallery
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- cck
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- imagefield
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**Thanks to Bob at [Mustardseed Media](http://mustardseedmedia.com) for
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[tweeting](http://twitter.com/mustardseedinc/status/14713096905) about this
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module. It's undoubtedly saved me hours of work today alone!**
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I've recently started a personal project converting a website to Drupal. It's
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currently a static HTML/CSS site which also uses the
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[Coppermine Photo Gallery](http://coppermine-gallery.net). As part of building
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the new website, I wanted to move all the photos from the existing site onto the
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new one. However, with 1260 photos in 17 albums, this could have been a lengthy
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process!
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I created a new Drupal-powered Gallery as described in
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[this screencast](http://lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach) by
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[Jeff Eaton](http://twitter.com/eaton) - using the CCK and Imagefield modules,
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and re-created each of my existing Gallery nodes. Using the
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[Imagefield_Import](http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_import) module, I was
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then able to quickly import the photos into the new Galleries.
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I downloaded all the photos from the previous Gallery via FTP, and installed and
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configured the Imagefield_Import module.
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I created an 'Import' folder, selected the target field and mode. In this case,
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I want each image to be imported into its own Photo node. I moved the photos for
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the first album into the Import folder, and loaded the 'Import Images' screen
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<em>(admin/content/imagefield_import)</em>.
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After clicking 'Import', a node is created for each photo, the image is
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uploaded, and added to the selected Gallery.
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Just another 1248 photos to go...
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