I was recently trying to add about 150-160 new pictures to an existing album. I ftp'ed the photos to my upload directory and proceeded to use the "Batch Add" command.
I selected the "uploads" directory, then selected the subdirectory where I had ftp'ed the files to. Clicked OK to confirm the directory and images. Then the batch add command started to fill the screen with thumbnails of the images, and checked marked the images that needed to be added to the album. There were already about 25 existing pictures in that album and the existing upload directory.
After a few, perhaps as many as 25, thumbnails started to appear, the whole process seemed to lockup. Red X's filled the rest of the thumbnails. I click "Insert Selected Files", and promptly received an error message from my hosting company that I had exceeded CPU processing limits, and my whole site was locked for a few minutes.
I thought that I would only do a small number of pictures at a time, but I kept having this problem with every attempt at adding the images. I eventually was able to get them added, but it took a lot of effort, even with small numbers of images, I kept having this problem.
BTW, I am on Coppermine 1.4.12.
A follow up question, once I've added the images into Coppermine, can I delete the images that I ftp'ed to my server? Or, do they need to stay in the UPLOAD directory?
Thanks.
Daryl Rose