Please share my wisdom??? You must be kidding!
Maybe you restrained yourself and only half insulted me.
I said the page was timing out and immediately the assumption was it must be a setup issue. Nevermind that everything else worked correctly.
Even the Batch Add Files included with CPG has a line that says "If your browser timeouts, hit the reload button". What a resourceful solution.
I loaded the Mass Import plugin on the recommendation of Donnoman and when it didnt work I was looking through the code and noticed the authors names. There was a nibbler, donnoman, flux, and paver. I had seen these names on this forum and since cpgcontrib was down which I mentioned in case you were unaware, I thought what better place to seek expert advise other than with the authors.
I never mentioned I was on an Intranet yet somehow someone jumped to that conclusion. Actually I intentionally left that part out because I didnt want anyone to think that was the case. All I said was that I was behind a firewall and I was running Windows XP IIS for my "test enviornment". A router is a firewall of sorts.
I said my TEST ENVIRONMENT yet it was immediately assumed that I was self hosting. But I suppose on one has ever used a test environment to determine if a certain software meets their need before putting it in place. There must be a few people that would put in some front end work to save time on the backend. And having to sit through importing each file is truly torture.
I spent several days (yes, I really did) searching this SUPPORT site looking for something to help before I posted. But there is a limit to the keywords you can think of and a limit to reading where others got insulted because they failed to read or understand the section that pertained to their problem. Its difficult to know where to look for an answer when you barely know or understand the problem.
How can anyone determine from such a small amount of info what skills I have or what kind of support team I have or am a part of? Amazing how someone can determine that just because I have a terabyte HD that I bought it for this application or that I'm self hosting.
I would think many of your serious users would reach the million files mark sooner or later. I saw where a few users asked a few questions about the capacity of cpg and were told drive space was the determining factor.
What I gather from this is Dont ask the Coppermine experts in this Support Forum. If you do, expect the solution from another user first.
But do expect to be insulted by the experts and have more keystrokes devoted to telling you to RTFM than to answer the question.
My last plea on my first post was "Can anyone help or direct me to a place to get help?" I was told what wont work, what I wasnt capable of, how my setup wasnt correct, etc.
Everything except help or directions to find help.
Feel free to lock, delete, move or whatever to this thread. And save the keystrokes in responding to me, I shall not be back here again.