Updated Jul 23: Downloading and uploading of multiple/nested galleries from/to PBase/SmugMug now supported. Please be careful while uploading multiple galleries to SmugMug. Use of prefix option in uploader GUI is HIGHLY recommended when uploading a bazillion directories.

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Hi,
Here is a tool (for windows only) that will allow you to easily migrate your PBase galleries and blogs to Smugmug.
It's really two tools in one
a) It allows you to download any PBase gallery/galleries (images, title, captions, gallery description) to your local hard disk and creates a nice browsable HTML file
b) It allows you to upload a previously downloaded gallery/galleries to Smugmug

For help, when the program starts, click on Menu->Usage option

You can download and upload in one go, or download today and upload later. Your choice.


DOWNLOAD LINK: HERE

Obligatory screen shot:

Here I am migrating my switzerland gallery (including any nested galleries) in PBase to SM. Since I've specified a prefix, the SM galleries will be called pb2smug_switzerland and so forth.



Happy downloading and uploading.

(PS: OF course, you can also use this just to upload your own photos to SM even if they are not downloaded by this program, but you just need to make sure its organized the way it expects - I'll leave it as an exercise for the interested user to figure it out )

Kudos to the OP. This is an excellent and simple piece of software.

Note that (as he explained) it will not work to download from nested galleries in pbase. An earlier version of the program would download pre-2009 nested galleries, and may still be available. For photos posted in 2009 or after, however, you will need to specify the name of each gallery to download from (as I understand it, this limitation is due to a decision made by pbase, which prevents any easier or more straightforward downloading). This is still far better than any other alternative and the effort is much appreciated. It works especially well when you download and upload in a single step, saving lots of effort.

You do not need to create the target gallery in smugmug ahead of time. If you enter the name you want for the smugmug gallery, PB2SMUG will create it for you and put your uploads in that new gallery -- this is a big timesaver.

Thanks Tom.
I will attempt to suck recursive galleries in the next version. But I have a question on the Smugmug side: Based on my prelim reading, Smugmug galleries are actually flat and you only use Categories to create an impression of nested galleries, with such galleries being 2 or 3 levels deep only. Is that correct?

If that is the case, how would you prefer the nested galleries of PBase to be migrated to SM? All of them as a flat set of galleries under maybe a new Category (say PB2SMUG) and let the user move them around later?

Originally Posted by arjunrc Thanks Tom. I will attempt to suck recursive galleries in the next version. But I have a question on the Smugmug side: Based on my prelim reading, Smugmug galleries are actually flat and you only use Categories to create an impression of nested galleries, with such galleries being 2 or 3 levels deep only. Is that correct? If that is the case, how would you prefer the nested galleries of PBase to be migrated to SM? All of them as a flat set of galleries under maybe a new Category (say PB2SMUG) and let the user move them around later?

Arjun, other migration apps like SmuggLr move nested galleries into the "Other" Category and users can then move the galleries from there. So your thinking was correct. I can't think of any better way to work with those galleries at the moment.

Thanks Nick. That makes it simpler

the new version supports downloading/uploading nested galleries. First post updated.