SmugTools: Gallery Copier

smugtools.jpg I am now selling my first piece of software – SmugTools: Gallery Copier (really creative name, I know)! It has it’s own section of the website, where you can download it and try it for free.

Basically, this started as a personal tool I developed when I was setting up the galleries for our wedding pictures. I have been using the online photo service Smugmug. I needed a good way to copy images from one gallery to another, so I wrote a tool to do it.

After all the work it took to get that working, I figured I might was well put together an install and make it available to other people. The most interesting part of the project was figuring out a registration-key system, and hooking in payment processing from Paypal to automatically email out registration keys upon successful payment.
  1. Hi Jordan,
    Just trying this tool but it’s not behaving for me. I first selected 5 photos and copied to another gallery. When I had a look, it had copied the first one to the other gallery but the other 4 were duplicated in the same gallery. So I tried again on another 5 photos and this time none were in the other gallery, all were duplicated in the same gallery. Probably something I’m doing but can’t figure it out. Any help appreciated as I would like to buy it if I can get it working.

  2. I have been pestering Smugmug for ages to include a feature to enable users to duplicate galleries, but as yet it hasn’t happened. Yesterday Smugmug directed me to your gallery copier. i downloaded the trial and it worked perfectly, so i have just bought it. if it works as well as the trial did, it is an absolute bargain at 10$.
    Thanks for making this available – I often need to have 2 galleries with the same photos – one for people to view but protected against downloading and the second for the musicians that i photograph which is not protected so they can download the photos. Your Gallery Copier should make my Smugmug life much easier.

    I’ll let you know if I have any problems.
    Regards
    Amanda

  3. Jordan,
    I’m trying to purchase this application and the page that is to load the Paypal (http://www.liggitt.net/smugtools) hangs in my IE7, never loads it and becomes non-responsive. There is no pop-up issue, I’ve tried adding it to “trusted sites”, no luck. What’s the deal?

  4. Hi Jordon,
    I purchused the gallary copier and I am unable to copy a gallary to another. It starts like its going to work then it says an error ocurred please restart the operation, well after restarting several times I decided it will not work. I tried moving the gallary and it will move the gallary or the pictures in it, but I wanted to copy them so they will be in two different categories. What am I doing wrong? I had to upload the pictures back into the other gallary that I moved they from. I bet its something simple ,but I don’t no what to do now. Please advises me on what I am doing wrong.
    Thanks,
    Ron McHugh

  5. Just bought your Copier. Sounded like a great idea to use in a similar way as Amanda. Tried on my macbook. got an error. Had to quit the program.
    Tried on my XP laptop: I get “Unexpected error: invalid API key”.

    please tell me what i am doing wrong.
    Thanks
    paul Topol

  6. Hi Paul, just tried it on my machine and didn’t have any issues. Can you try again? Very occasionally the SmugMug API will go down.

  7. Jordan — the comment here probably merits a response:

    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1046715#post1046715

    Anyways, my test of copying 5 images worked fine and I was ready to purchase, but wanted to get official word: are you still supporting this tool?

    (And congrats on the new baby — I can totally understand that taking care of two kids can take priority over side projects. :-)

  8. Nevermind – saw your recent replies here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1105434#post1105434

    Will send payment shortly!

    –Darryl