The images folder on my site now contains over 3,000 images of wild flowers and
related stuff. These images appear on the relevant but separate web pages of
which there are now over 2,000. You find your way round all this using various
indexes which point to the folders containing the web pages. The site will get
bigger each year and I need to re-structure it for example putting all the
images beginning with A in one directory and B in another etc.

This is easily done but how can I do this and get Dreamweaver CS3 to update
the links - copying and pasting doesn't seem to do it and dragging and dropping
prompts for some updated links but not all. Updating over 2,000 pages by hand
seem a touch tedious as each one would take about 20 minutes minimum.

I don't really think this can be done easily can it??

"carduus" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The images folder on my site now contains over 3,000 images of wild
> flowers and
> related stuff. These images appear on the relevant but separate web pages
> of
> which there are now over 2,000. You find your way round all this using
> various
> indexes which point to the folders containing the web pages. The site
> will get
> bigger each year and I need to re-structure it for example putting all the
> images beginning with A in one directory and B in another etc.
>
> This is easily done but how can I do this and get Dreamweaver CS3 to
> update
> the links - copying and pasting doesn't seem to do it and dragging and
> dropping
> prompts for some updated links but not all. Updating over 2,000 pages by
> hand
> seem a touch tedious as each one would take about 20 minutes minimum.
>
> I don't really think this can be done easily can it??
>

Would this not be a very good case for using a database to produce the
pages. It would be fairly easy to program it to look in the appropriate
folder. So for example if your picture was daffodils upload the file to the
D folder and code the database to use the first letter and the folder name.

This would then mean that uploading would be easier, once you had made the
change you would no longer need to re-code file paths and you would only
have potentially one pagew which displays the photo but the database loads
the right bits in to it ready to be displayed, i.e. you only have 1 not 2000
pages.

Derek

You can use mod_rewrite ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
) on Apache or even a 404 error handler to map requests from
http://www.somesite.net/images/foo.jpg to
http://www.somesite.net/images/theCo...ectory/foo.jpg or wherever you
moved the file to.