Help Needed ASAP: Keywords, downloading multiple photos

DalyDaly Registered Users Posts: 40 Big grins
edited August 1, 2009 in SmugMug Support
I have several galleries of my homeschool group's photos. There are over 4,000 photos total. I have gone through and tagged the keyword 'DVD' to the 300 photos that I want download to make a movie to show at a party we are having soon.

I thought that if there is some way that I could make a copies of all these 'DVD' photos and put them in a new gallery labeled 'DVD Movie' ...then I could have the 60 families go look at that new gallery and make sure their kids have photo representation.

Furthermore, I thought if I had all the photos in one gallery, then I could use Album Fetcher to download the photos to my computer.

I have not figured out how to use Album Fetcher to only download certain keyworded photos. (I'm not even sure if the application has that capability).

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that would save me time on accomplishing my task.
Dalynn
(sort of new to Smug Mug)

Thanks so much!

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2007
    Where's your site? ear.gif
  • DalyDaly Registered Users Posts: 40 Big grins
    edited September 8, 2007
    Dalymont.smugmug.com

    But the galleries are password protected to respect some families issues with privacy of photos on the web.
    I can pm you the password if that is required for your help..?

    Dalynn
  • DalyDaly Registered Users Posts: 40 Big grins
    edited September 8, 2007
    okay, well I just downloaded each and every photo individually.
    Took over an hour.
    Does anyone know a better way for next time?
    Help a gal out?

    Or can someone at least tell me there is not a better way right now and the only way is too download each photo individually?
  • PBolchoverPBolchover Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited September 9, 2007
    I would do a keyword search, switch to "all thumbs" mode, then save the page to your hard disk (using the "html only" option). Then, using notepad, you can bulk change the -Ti in each image URL with -O. Then resave the page to your hard disk (using the "webpage complete" option). This should save all of the original photos to a subdirectory on your hard disk.

    [Edited: Jan 31 2008]
  • DalyDaly Registered Users Posts: 40 Big grins
    edited September 9, 2007
    Thank you so much! This did indeed work. It takes a while to download all the photos but I was expecting that. At least with this method I don't have to download each individual photo!
    Much Thanks!
    Dalynn
  • bobsobobso Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited January 31, 2008
    Daly wrote:
    Thank you so much! This did indeed work. It takes a while to download all the photos but I was expecting that. At least with this method I don't have to download each individual photo!
    Much Thanks!
    Dalynn

    This is exactly what I have been looking for for a VERY long time. However, after the step where you replace the "-Ti" with "-O", I am unable to duplicate the process as I just don't see the connection between resaving a changed notepad file back to the harddrive and initiating a download from Smugmug. Is there a step I'm missing? Could you redescribe the process in more detail, step by step?

    I'm hoping I can get this working until (keeping my fingers crossed) AlbumFetcher adds a keyword function!

    Thanks!
    Bob
  • PBolchoverPBolchover Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2008
    bobso wrote:
    However, after the step where you replace the "-Ti" with "-O", I am unable to duplicate the process as I just don't see the connection between resaving a changed notepad file back to the harddrive and initiating a download from Smugmug. Is there a step I'm missing? Could you redescribe the process in more detail, step by step?

    The file with the -Ti should be an html file that loads the thumbnails from the smugmug servers.

    Html files don't normally open in notepad, so to edit the file, you have to right-click and choose "Open with"

    Once you change the -Ti to -O (and don't rename the file), it will remain an html file, but will load the original photos from smugmug, instead of the thumbnails.

    After saving the file from notepad, re-open it in IE or Firefox.
  • bobsobobso Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited January 31, 2008
    PBolchover wrote:
    The file with the -Ti should be an html file that loads the thumbnails from the smugmug servers.

    Html files don't normally open in notepad, so to edit the file, you have to right-click and choose "Open with"

    Once you change the -Ti to -O (and don't rename the file), it will remain an html file, but will load the original photos from smugmug, instead of the thumbnails.

    After saving the file from notepad, re-open it in IE or Firefox.

    Wow. Thank you for the quick reply and that helped quite a bit. I'm almost there. I see now that once the page reloads each picture appears as a thumbnail but when I "right click" "save picture as" it saves it to my harddrive in the original file size. Cool ! Now, the last piece of the puzzle is that your original reply said to "resave the page to the harddisk using the "save all file" option. I don't see that option. Where do you find it? As of now I can save each one individually as I mentioned above, but not as a group. Can you elaborate further?

    Thanks!
    Bob
  • PBolchoverPBolchover Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2008
    When you have the file open in Internet Explorer / Firefox, go to the File / Save Page As menu in IE / Firefox.

    Type in a new filename, and ensure that the "Save as type" is "Web Page Complete".

    This will save the html file on your hard disk, and will also create a folder called "filename_files" that contains all of the images used in that html file. This folder should contain all of the original copies of your files. Copy them to somewhere safe.
  • bobsobobso Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited January 31, 2008
    Got it !!!!

    Thank you so very much for your knowledge and helpfullness! You are going to make a lot of the parents on my son and daughters soccer teams very, very happy!

    Bob
  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2008
    Man -- what a hassle (although a clever workaround, to be sure).

    It would be nice if SmugMug just had a "download this (album/keyword search result) as a zip file" option.

    Oh -- if you're on a PC and don't mind spending some money, Star*Explorer has the ability to download the images found in a search.

    http://www.starexplorer.com/
  • DalyDaly Registered Users Posts: 40 Big grins
    edited August 1, 2009
    I only use this method (the work-around) once a year when we are creating our annual Yearbook. I used it last year with no problems. This year it is not working...very frustrating to say the least. (where is the pulling out the hair smilie when I need one?)

    Does anyone know a NEW method of downloading specific keyworded, original size photos in a gallery?

    ETA: I use Firefox browser, so I don't think Starexplorer will work for me....?
    Thanks
  • PBolchoverPBolchover Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2009
    Just to check: you need external links to be enabled in the gallery...
  • DalyDaly Registered Users Posts: 40 Big grins
    edited August 1, 2009
    PBolchover wrote:
    Just to check: you need external links to be enabled in the gallery...
    clap.gifThank YOU so much! this indeed was my problem!bowdown.gif
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