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Hello I installed the wiki from scratch and replaced the new 5GB photo folder The previous wiki is 1.35 with the current one Everything is fine but does not call photos Also, Special:ListFiles is nothing

I'm disappointed in your guidance. Is it permissible to take more than 1,000 photos from Wikiman and transfer it to The Destination Wiki? @Jonathan3

this is a free forum. You get what you get.

I don't know anything about Wikiman so don't know what's permissible.

I don't know enough about MediaWiki to work out your problem for sure from what you have said so far. I suspect it's just that MediaWiki doesn't know anything about the contents of your photo directory. If that's the problem then you could remedy it by bulk uploading the contents of the directory. Or if you are trying to recreate an old wiki then just follow the relevant instructions, which include transferring the wiki database as well as the files.

Thank you

You will explain more about this article please:

if you are trying to recreate an old wiki then just follow the relevant instructions, which include transferring the wiki database as well as the files.@Jonathan3

I recently moved my wiki to a new server and found these two articles helpful:

• Manual:Moving a wiki
• Manual:Restoring a wiki from backup

I will receive notifications from this topic without being pinged/tagged (whatever the word is) - and it might make other (better qualified) people feel more willing to reply too :-)

The wiki won't know about the files, unless you copy across the old database (as well as the wiki files) - or maybe Category:Bulk_upload will help.

use importImages.php.

Mediawiki needs to have imported the image metadata into db before it can see it. it wont recognize just a folder of images.