Hi,
I'm hoping I don't get flamed for this, but there are just so many posts here that I couldn't find what I wanted to know.
Here's my issue, a LONG LONG time ago (I don't even remember what version it was), I had Coppermine installed for use on my website. I had uploaded a small handful of files to it and was using it. Something happened along the way and I couldn't use it anymore, but I left all the files as they were. Today I migrated my web hosting to a new setup that required me to save all my files off FTP and reload them onto the new server. And this new hosting was something that had Coppermine as an option, so I chose to try it again. I went through and set up everything as I think I was supposed to and now I can see a few test files I put up.
Problem is that I don't know how to get all my old photos into this new install. At first, I thought I could just install Coppermine on top of the folder that I had used previously, but I kept getting installation errors. So, I just figured I would do a clean install into a directory called photos. I've tried simply copying images over from the old directory to the new one, but that didn't work, of course. I didn't really think it would. I've done some searching around on google about this, but most of the time it is talking about restoring backups complete with databases. Well, from what I can tell, I didn't save the db, so I can't just do a restore. It's been a super long time since I have done any website work or any database type work, so most of what I knew is either gone or changed.....honestly, most of it is gone.
So, with that said, is there any easy way to just copy the image files to the new install directory and have Coppermine scan and rebuild the thumbnails and all of that? Or do I just need to re-upload all the files one-by-one to get them back up? Again, sorry if this is something basic. I hope you don't rip me a new one too bad. I do appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks,
Steve