Moving Images too slow

  • I have scoured the Internet far and wide and this is the only plugin which seems to move images (lock, stock and barrel) to other folders which you created manually. Moves thumbnails, changes links in website and updates your database properly including the GUID. This is what I want and it works.

    BUT!

    Now I have 16000+ images and it takes nearly a minute to move one image to another folder.

    If you move a complete folder, it is much much quicker but I have yet to find a plugin which allows you to choose where to upload the image into. And I am not talking galleries, categories, tags, blah blah blah. I’m talking physical folders which you created.

    I was toying with the idea of uploading into a temp folder (call it ‘1’) and then move it to the right location using Media File Manager. Which would be lightning quick.

    BUT WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO MOVE INDIVIDUAL IMAGES WHEN IT TAKES ALMOST NO TIME TO MOVE A COMPLETE FOLDER???

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  • Plugin Author aueda

    (@aueda)

    When you select multiple files and move them, the media file manager need to search articles which use the images and replace URLs of the images in the entries of database with new ones. So when you select 100 images and move them, the plugin do the procedure 100 times. It takes long time when you have large amount of articles.

    On the other hand when you select a folder that contains many image, the plugin search articles which contain the URL of the folder. The plugin do the procedure one time. It does not take so long time.

    If you know better algorithm please let me know, or rewrite the plugin by yourself.

    Thread Starter Sellerto

    (@sellerto)

    Thanks aueda,

    Essentially I’ve had to do it manually now.

    There are 5 steps:

    1) Load images into Website
    The trick is to load all images directly in the library first. In other words, do not attach them to a post or page.

    2) Move images
    Either using FTP or your website’s web file manager, move all the associated images from …uploads/ to the folder of your choice.

    3) Run a custom SQL statement against the database to update wp_posts and wp_metapost. I can provide on request. What this essentially does is update the GUID in wp_posts and update the meta_data field in wp_metadata. You supply two parameters: post_name and folder path.

    4) Then insert into your page

    Takes 5 seconds but the trick here is that it is not scouring your webpages. Which means IF you need to do this AFTER you’ve inserted into your posts, you will need to re-insert.

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