Porting images for major version upgrade

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#1

I am about to belatedly upgrade a 5.6.4 site to 8.5.7*. The site has a lot of photos for use in image galleries, many of which have associated descriptions inserted via the file manager. I don’t suppose there is an simple way of porting those over to a new installation. I know I can download them all and re-upload, but I suspect all the descriptive information will be lost. Thanks.
*Yes, I know this isn’t the latest, but I need to get all my sites to a point where I can use the needed version of php.

#2

This will migrate images

#3

Thanks, Tim. I do remember that one from way back when but I didn’t realize it would still be useful in this situation. I’m not terribly experienced with Concrete, but I take it I will need to download the GitHub package and put that in the packages directory on the legacy site.

#4

Correct, you’ll need the 5.6 export package on your old site and then the 5.7 import package on the new site.

You might need to test it a few times as it can time out or crash, but it works.

If you find it crashes when importing try a fresh export and then reimport

#5

Thanks again. I installed the packages on both sites, watched the video, and did an export of most of the old site and began the import into a test version of the new site. Alas, in the process I discovered it doesn’t actually do what I need. It did scrape the images on the pages and download them–very impressive bit of code. I realized that the hundreds of images that I need to move don’t actually exist on the pages–they are handled by the add-on Touch Gallery and simply reside in the Files section. So, it is back to just exporting from the file manager and re-doing the meta-information. Anyway, thank for the suggestion

#6

You could try and see if the files db tables are the same and then copy them across? keeping the file structure?

#7

Thanks, but I would rather deal with the tedium of down/up loading rather than the anxiety of messing around where I shouldn’t be. I will use the migration add-on for the several static pages, though, and thanks for reminding me about than.