Easy Populate and adding Images

[Hobbies]

It took a few tries, but we got all 10,000 products on the site using Easy Populate and we're now uploading graphics in the 3 different sizes. I can get the graphics to work if I go through admin one by one. My question is: Can I edit individual products with Easy Populate? Lets say I cut and paste 500 of my products onto another spread sheet and insert the image.jpg into column B will the rest of my products remain on the site unchanged or will I lose them? And will Easy Populate attach attributes using column A (v_products_model) as the target?

[misty]

When using EP, did you add image name to each product
within EP?

[schoolboy]

See my WIKI article here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

[Hobbies]

Thanks for the replies! I didn't put in images the first time I did EP. I had planned on uploading images as I went through them later. After using EP I'm wishing I had done this in the beginning. Now I'm saving all my images and naming the same as the SKU or model name and have saved them as image, image_MED, and image_LRG in respective folders. I'm hoping that I can now go through and update the items I have images for and EP will just add the images to those items I modify. .. Rather than uploading the entire inventory file again I'd just update a few hundred at a time.

I'm going through the Wiki information now and downloading my tab delimited files to give it a go. .. Now would be the time to stop me

[ronpeled]

There shouldn't be any problem if you try to upload the exact same tab delimited file if you only add the image file names (with paths). I have done it many times.

[misty]

Only need to state one image in each product via EP..then
install Image Handler..it will resize that image to med and lrg images for you.

[yd29999]

Make sure you resize your images and load them in the proper folders. Such as large, med. A good resizer is Mihov Image Resizer. It will do 1000's within mins. Also a good batch renamer is IrfanView. Then you can ftp them all. Including your small pics. Then just put the pic name in your ez populate and reload it.The is a F&Q I think in here someplace that gives the set by step process. It's super easy.

[Hobbies]

Thanks for the help :) It's coming together slowly. I've been using photoshop with a script to resize. So far everythings gone to the right folders on the database, but the quantity still seems neverending!

[misty]

Thanks for the help :) It's coming together slowly. I've been using photoshop with a script to resize. So far everythings gone to the right folders on the database, but the quantity still seems neverending!

Which is why suggested using Image Handler..

[yd29999]

and I with Mihov Image Resizer