[Mediawiki-l] Sigh, bulk image addition--so near and yet so far...

[Brion Vibber]

Ken McDonald wrote:
> And, unfortunately, here is what I did in "rebuildImages.php":
> 
>     function crawlMissing() {
>         global $wgUploadDirectory, $wgHashedUploadDirectory;
>         $wgHashedUploadDirectory = FALSE;

No, that'll just break everything. :)

1) Set that in your LocalSettings.php.

2) Put all your files into the images directory.

3) run rebuildImages.php --missing

4) cross fingers

> I get the feeling that if only I could tell rebuildImages where I 
> _really_ want it to get the new images from, I could get this to work. 

rebuildImages is meant to update the image table for image files that are
*already* in the proper location and directory layout.

It does not move files, as it expects them to already be in place.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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