My experience with J2.5 and VM2.0.1

[lipes]

yep.. in VM1.x and VM2.x we only have 1 form...

[Milbo]

Prolipes:
It is absolutly not stupid, stop scream around and please stop showing that you use strawman arguments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man). You just do not understand how the media handler is working and what the media handler can do for you.

First: Thumbnails gets created automatically on the fly, when you watch the first time on it... regardless if BE or FE, so you dont have to care about thumbnails.
Second: The main function of the mediahandler in the product/category/vendor/... view is not to upload a media. This more for people who dont know the faster and more professional methods. The fastest method is to upload the media per ftp and to use the media synchronisation. When you select them for your product, you adjust the description with the mediahandler.
Third: The mediahandler works also for pdf,zip, exe, avi, mpg, mp3 and so on. They show as thumb usually an icon, for example the pdf icon. And for this type of media, you have the replace thumbnail. NOT for the normal image. The only thing which is a bit lacking,.. is that when you choose a file it should switch to upload. On the other hand... this is handy for you, the beginner. But for the pros it is stupid, because they will use it mainly to replace an icon with a nice thumbnail. So when they forgot to switch it,.. they do not break it, with your automatic, they break their image.

There is not a perfect solution fitting for everyone, just accept that. Your crying sounds like a guy who is sitting in a BMW and crying that the automatic ashtray pusher is not working. Come on, ... calm down and write it better. write a js for it and an option to the config. we will add it.

[lipes]

Milbo... the problem is that many of us used the image upload in VM1.x and we got the function that "automatically switches"...
Now we dont have it. I do not understand what you said correctly, because we still have the language barrier and it was my fault, already apologized for that.

The problem is that this new "image upload system" when we create a new product we dont have Nothing to change or Edit... No files in the new product... and in my opinion its stupid only for that.. nothing more about.

(1) - Thumbnails its fine.
(2) - I'll have to know better about the "mediahandler"... i'm on my Pc (local server) with the AMPPS ... why should i use a ftp software to access my hard drive?! I can "copy paste" the folder to that directory, right? :|
(3) - Yes, i think that i understand what you've explained, and i agree with you its better .. But i'm talking about when we want to create a new product.. do we need necessarily have to upload? We only go to "Search Images".. type the image name and puff.. it displays the image in server image folder with the name that we want?

But if we dont want to upload the images / thumbnail / etc by ftp? If the file does not exist (we cannot search them) why the "replace thumb" its an option? Why not take only the upload option... So i think there is no logic in it. And it was this no logic that I was referring to...  I do not know if you could understand what i mean..
i'll have to learn more English and some web english terms too in order to understand better this...

[Milbo]

of course you use then your Filebrowser and not FTP. And yes, it is exactly meant that way,.. you enter car and get all car images.
and yes, I could remove the "replace thumbnail" option, when the product is completly new. But this mini thing will cost really a lot of time. Because in the moment you attach an image, we need to change the options... and the options alreay get changed. Go in the media edit view and add there a media,.. hehe. There are a lot more and different options, suddenly.

[lipes]

Milbo: Thanks for your patience, possibly the biggest problem is the lack of adaptation and knowledge to what is new here. I'll wait for the changes in next VM versions but obviously I'm going to use what already exists and how well you explained to us.

[lipes]

Hi. I'm with the J1.7.3 with vm2.0.0 right now... 
I've copied my old images files (and the resized files too) to the directory:
- localhost\images\stories\virtuemart\product
- localhost\images\stories\virtuemart\product\resized

Then i've "Synchronize media to VirtueMart" and it gives me this msg:

"Start with a new migration process and setup log maxScriptTime 39 maxMemoryLimit 89.6
Synchronized 743 media for product in directory images/stories/virtuemart/product/
The synchronisation is not finished, please execute again"

"vmError: Attention script time too short, no time left to store the media, please rise script execution time"

[Milbo]

As it says, synchronise again, 743 medias synchronised. Rise the execution time to prevent this.

[lipes]

Hi Milbo, i didnt find where is located that "execution time".. but NO problem at all! i've clicked (many times..) in "synchronise media" in my localhost and now all the images are fine (finally)!     in a online server will be worse i think..

I've also moved the old table jos_users .. by the phpmyadmin... to the new joomla 1.7.3 / J2.5 and the only difference is that we now dont have the column named "GID" (I've removed that column in excel and save the jos_users.csv file) ...
I've also saw that the user ID number have a blank space from the number 43 (new user vm2) to 62.. (old VM users)..  is that when we had the user 61 registered, then someone wants to create a new user "62" it will go over the old record of 62 or automatic jumps to the last number "80"?

i dont know or understand about this new joomla table called "jos_user_usergroup_map" .. i only got 1 user row, was necessary to have more users like jos_users table? :S

I've also see that the Virtuemart tables have the extended name.. previously only had short name "...vm...", and some of them have "_pt_pt" this is normal?! I have not installed any language...

Next days i will try to pass some tables like vm categories, vm products and vm manufacturers from the old VM1.1.9 to the new tables in Vm 2.0.0 ... by the phpmyadmin ..

[jenkinhill]

in a online server will be worse i think..

No, it will be quicker, as localhost is much slower than a proper webserver. Unless it is a cheap, overloaded host, though.

[Milbo]

This problem is also solved now,.. synchronising media is not autogenerating thumbnails anylonger, so you can maybe synchronise 2000 media in one row.