Question on large albums

[haivala]

I had an project. Result was 80k pictures and they take about 8G of space. 720p images.

What is the recommended way to handle the upload and (as I remember someone having problems with huge albums) is there recommended way to split the pics in albums or should it work as expected now?

I would prefer zip upload through browser (temporarily allowing huge file) but If I use that how it is handled? for example: If there is folder in the zip does it become a sub album? or does it even work?

Tips?

[ildyria]

First this.

I would prefer zip upload through browser (temporarily allowing huge file) but If I use that how it is handled? for example: If there is folder in the zip does it become a sub album? or does it even work?

The good news is.. it is in the working: #2229 (still need more work on it).
The way it will work is:

1. zip is put on server (I don't remember where in /storage
2. zip is extracted to /storage/extract-jobs/zip-file-name
3. /storage/extract-jobs/zip-file-name is imported with an import queue.
4. profit

The upload by chunk should take care of your 8GB zip file once #2140 is merged.
Now the problem is that #2229 does not support sub folders yet (but that is in the working).

TL;DR:

What is the recommended way to handle the upload and (as I remember someone having problems with huge albums) is there recommended way to split the pics in albums or should it work as expected now?

For now I would recommend to upload the pictures via ftp into public/uploads/import/ and then use command line:
php artisan lychee:sync --delete_imported=1 to take care of that (the tree structure of your folders will be converted into albums).

[haivala]

This should be marked as answered.

[haivala]

Thank you! That is what I thought.

Should this be added (in some form) in the faq?

[haivala]

if I use the sync command is there an option to change owner of the album to user? or is it automatically the admin?

[ildyria]

You can add --owner_id=1 where 1 is the user_id of the owner, by default it is admin.
That being said, using the v5, you can go into the album details and change the owner easily.