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I hope someone can help me solve this one!

I was importing data in batches to build the database ... the images would not link in the import so I manually edited each one in the Product Manager to display and assigned the Base, Small and Thumbnail settings ... all was going well.

I then did a complete export of data and added some items to the end of the file in the appropriate columns. When I re-imported it wiped out hte links to the images, even though the path was in the file just as it was exported using the Magento Export tool…

I have wasted two days trying to get this working smoothly, and just when I figured I had it .... boom!

Anyone know if the links can be re-established? I don\\\\\\\’t want to go into each product and upload the images again as they are already on the site.

Any help would be appreciated.

Allan

As far as I know the path to the images should NOT be the same as the path exported, because the import tool looks for images in the media/import/ folder without the alphabetic folders like: /a/a/. you could replace this with regex: Replace ^/[a-z]/[a-z]/ with /. You you’ll work it out!

I am needing help with this too.  I have read and re-read potential solutions and instructions for days on solving this issue.  I have made media/import folder.  I have magento version 1.7.  I also renamed my images files and just placed / in front of it /image-file.jpg.  I also added the “_1” (really don’t need to cause magento does it for me) and even “image”, “small” , and “thumbnail”.  Every time I import new products, all my existing images goes blank.  When I clean out the catalog/product/cache the images disappears on the front end.  I have 2 stores.  I am just at my wits end on how to import new products/images without wiping out the existing images.  I been importing/exporting through dataflow.  That’s another thing, I see import, export, dataflow in backend system menu.  That confuses me on which one i should use.

Michelle

In app/code/core/Mage/ImportExport/Model/Import/Entity/Product.php

move line 1226 two lines up (inside the if statement ) so the new code will be

This will not fix all the problems, but at least I can now import my products if they already have images.

roy_russo - 04 June 2012 02:11 PM

In app/code/core/Mage/ImportExport/Model/Import/Entity/Product.php

move line 1226 two lines up (inside the if statement ) so the new code will be

if (!array_key_exists($rowData[$imageCol], $uploadedGalleryFiles)) {
    $uploadedGalleryFiles[$rowData[$imageCol]] = $this->_uploadMediaFiles($rowData[$imageCol]);
    $rowData[$imageCol] = $uploadedGalleryFiles[$rowData[$imageCol]];
}

This will not fix all the problems, but at least I can now import my products if they already have images.

Chief i have magento 1.7 and i was having the same problem .
and thanks to your solution i got my issue fixed.
ok thanks so much

I think I have succeeded to solve the bug in a better way.
Now new images can be imported, and old images keep their values.