Before you ask for a "Copy To Gallery" or Virtual Galleries, read this!

darryl · November 6, 2008

This is a very very old request. It comes up so often, I almost think this thread should be sticky.

The Problem
To currently copy an image to another gallery, you have to create a copy of an image, then move it. Two separate functions. If you want to do this for multiple images, prepare for a lot of clicking. It's almost easier to just re-upload to a new gallery.

The Request
Much like the Move or Bulk Move tools, users would like the ability to Copy photos directly to other galleries without the intermediary copy step.

Alternately, people have requested the ability to create "virtual galleries" so that images could simply be "linked". This would save SmugMug storage space, but probably complicate the user interface.

Recently (October 2008), in defense of this missing feature, Andy wrote:

Perhaps since we offer unlimited uploading, bandwidth, and photo storage already, maybe the best way to make sure this doesn't get abused is to leave things as they are.

Food for thought.

wslam · December 30, 2008

I am surprised no one followed up on your excellent effort in consolidating all the threads on this feature request.

I just want to put my vote in... I think something very simple, a Virtual Gallery function... The VG contains only virtual copies of selected photos from other galleries. I do not need editing function etc. All that is needed is a 'remove from VG' function within the VG, and in all other real galleries, a simple 'Add to VG1' function. Yes, I assume we can have more then one VG. So we will need a function to define VGs like the way we define ShareGroups.

Pls let us have this!

ws

Andy · December 30, 2008

darryl wrote:

I'm hoping that maybe one thread consolidating all of these requests might make a stronger case. *Shrug*.

Virtual Galleries have a ton of attention and I don't think you need to make any stronger case

We have some other things to get out first though. Thanks!

darryl · December 30, 2008

Another SmugMug user recently wrote an external tool to provide this functionality:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=108475&goto=newpost

It's interesting stuff.

wslam · December 30, 2008

Andy wrote:

Virtual Galleries have a ton of attention and I don't think you need to make any stronger case

We have some other things to get out first though. Thanks!

If this is meant to be where Smugmug customers can voice out, then yes, I have every intention to dig this thread up and bring it to the front again. This feature request has been 'requiested' for at least 2 yrs...

So yes, stronger case.

Last week I wrote help (via email) about a video being stucked processing. First thing they told me is to be patient (I wrote only after waited 9 hours on a 4 min long video). And when I dig up this thread, the first thing an official replied is that I do not need to bring more attention to it?

I rely heavily on smugmug, but frankly, new services popped up very often. Is Smugmug still the best? I don't know. All I know is that my reluctance to move to another service has nothing to do with whether it's the best or not. It will simply be a logistic nightmare. I hope Smugmug understands that. High customer retention rate in this case, does not imply you have the happy customers.

Andy · December 30, 2008

wslam wrote:

If this is meant to be where Smugmug customers can voice out, then yes, I have every intention to dig this thread up and bring it to the front again. This feature request has been 'requiested' for at least 2 yrs...

So yes, stronger case.

Sorry, maybe you misunderstood me, or maybe I wasn't clear

It's got our attention!

wslam · December 30, 2008

Andy wrote:

Sorry, maybe you misunderstood me, or maybe I wasn't clear

It's got our attention!

Thank you! Hopefully we do not need to bring this up in 2 years time!

ashishpandey · January 4, 2009

wslam wrote:

Thank you! Hopefully we do not need to bring this up in 2 years time!

He never said what they decided about it. It just got attention

BigAl · January 6, 2009

Another vote for a virtual gallery. The way copying works at the moment is a waste of my time and your disk space.

DJKennedy · January 6, 2009

BigAl wrote:

Another vote for a virtual gallery. The way copying works at the moment is a waste of my time and your disk space.

I agree, being able to upload one image to more than one gallery at a time would save us time.

Before you ask for a "Copy To Gallery" or Virtual Galleries, read this!

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