Once images are transferred from the digital camera or scanner and processed for online usage they can be published to an online photo album. Photo Album Helper supports and automates this process by providing an option to copy image files via standard file transfer protocol (FTP).
To copy images using FTP
start application Photo Album Helper
click on tab Publish to open the Publish panel
specify the image source directory
set the FTP server address and user account
specify the target directory
press button "Publish images now"
Settings are kept by application Photo Album Helper so that only the source and target directory need to be adjusted slightly when images are published the next time.
Please note: More than one publish tab can be configured with different publishing settings on each tab.
Application Photo Album Helper is meant for use with dynamic web photo albums. It assumes a web application produces albums from a set of image directories dynamically as opposed to photo albums where static HTML pages need to be generated in addition.
All image files found in the source directory are copied to the specified location using FTP. During file transfer Photo Album Helper switches to the log panel and lists the progress. The following rules are used by Photo Album Helper for FTP transfers
directories are created on the server as found in the source directory,
the specified target directory is newly created,
existing files and directories are not overwritten,
file transfer is done to the FTP root directory set on the server for the particular user account,
a directory path may be specified as the target directory. It is assumed that all directories in such path already exist on the server except for the last one which is assumed to be the directory that is to be newly created.
Target directory: my_new_images
Photo Album Helper creates a new directory my_new_images in the FTP root directory. All directories and files are created under /my_new_images on the server.
Target directory: album/2005/my_new_images
Photo Album Helper assumes directory "album" to exist in the FTP root directory. It assumes directory "2005" exists inside directory "album". It opens directory "2005" inside directory "album" and creates directory "my_new_images" there. All directories and files from the source directory are transferred to album/2005/my_new_images.
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