I've Googled, and Stackoverflowed this to death (and checked the Wiki), but I can't find a solution to my problem :(
Problem:
With Magento Magmi: all products and single images are importing fine, the only catch is that Magmi throws the following error when I try to import multiple images (e.g. /BJ977L.png,/BJ977R.png):
Image attributes processor v1.0.25 - /BJ977L.png,/BJ977R.png cannot be found in images path
Obviously I checked and the files are there... Also, if I change it to only reference one image, then it works. I find this very confusing.
The images are located in: media/import and the Magmi Image Plugin configuration reflects this. Also, if I move the images to another folder, say var/import/images; then it makes no difference...
Your help is hugely appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
As the Images Attribute Processor documentation states, you should be using a semi-colon ; to separate multiple images.
/extraimg1.jpg;/extraimg2.jpg
Also ensure that the column names you are using are correct. media_gallery is the correct column header name for the media gallery images.
Have you tried using semi colon?
/BJ977L.png;/BJ977R.png
Have you tried using the complete file path to the images? Also, did you specify the file path root for the images in the plugin settings?
If you have formatted the .csv file the right way then you should check the Image Renaming setting for the Image attributes processor. If you specify a bad rule to rename your newly imported images you could end up with the same name for every picture. So basically the first image will be imported, then the second will overwrite it because it was given the same name. If you only see the last picture you specified for the media_gallery attribute then this is probably the cause.
Hope this helps.
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I'm using magmi 0.7.22 in a magento 1.9.3.1
I need to import several images, and replace all the current images by the new ones.
I'm trying first with on single product and I see that it is working fine, except that the first media_gallery image is not imported.
The test csv is the following:
"sku","image","small_image","thumbnail","media_gallery"
"S1712400-10","+/S1712400-5-10.jpg","+/S1712400-5-10.jpg","+/S1712400-5-10.jpg","/S1712400-2-10.jpg;/S1712400-3-10.jpg;/S1712400-4-10.jpg"
The import finishes without any error, but the image S1712400-5-10.jpg is not showing anywhere, though the other 2 following images are in it's place.
I checked that the image name is correct, and that it is in the same place as the other ones, but still the same result.
I cleared all the magento's caches, including the "catalog images cache" but see no change.
The same happens to all the products, the first image of the media_gallery is completely ignored.
I finally found the answer in this question: https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/71962/import-multiple-images-with-magmi
It seems there is some problem with Image attributes processor v1.0.33a image renaming.
To solve this go to itemprocessors and in the Image attributes processor v1.0.33a select configuration. Then empty the Image renaming and save.
This solved my problem.
I am trying to add products by duplicating them in a CSV file. It seems to work fine but when I update the product image path with the same path to multiple products it doesn't seem to update. When I export again and look at the data it has reverted to it original state. What is the problem here...?
Please review the following: http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/importing-product-images
Typical Problems:
Path
Name of File (Name does not match file name. ie: Name.jpg vs /name.jpg)
Image file does not exist on server for processing. (file is not at store/media/upload/file.jpg)
Permissions (store/media/* store/media/upload not accessible)
Reminder: When dealing with Image Modification/Upload etc, please flush (disable during trouble shooting) the cache, then re-enable after.
Uploading via Dataflow:
Assuming you have the correct basic required fields, there are two main behaviors.
If the SKU is unique, the product ID will be created in the system.
If the SKU exists, information will be replaced/updated or Appended in the system.
When you copy and paste, you will want to make sure each SKU is unique, and that there will be a correlating image that will 'live' on the server during the upload dataflow process.
In the case of Images, the Path is going to be looking for yourstoreroot/media/import/ for the images you reference in your image / small / thumbnail, if the image doesn't exist with the path described, or doesn't match exactly the name, then the data will not be added/appended in the cart as it is invalid to the import files and would not show on new exports.
To solve this problem I learned how to create an attribute, an attribute set, then a configurable product. With the configurable product I can apply the image once. Each product listing with a different size or color is listed as an associated product with all duplicate content but is not visible individually.
Here is a tutorial that got me started:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-creating-a-configurable-product
Found this question via Google looking for something similar and thought I'd chime in.
The most common problem I've encountered (and its poorly documented) is that when importing using the built-in import tool, the "image" path must be relative to /media/import/. Note that by default there is no 'import' folder in /media, you'll need to make it.
That means that in your CSV under the "images" column, you should have '/somepicture.jpg', this corresponds to /media/import/somepicture.jpg during the actual import. If this is incorrect, while the import is going on you'll see a bunch of "image not found" errors scroll by, and the existing image data will not be updated.
Unfortunately it does not look like there is a way to simply update the stored image path (such as pointing a bunch of products to the same image) using the built-in importer, as it expects to be importing new images, and will dupe them up just like editing images manually does.
I am having an issue in Magento where my pictures are not being uploaded even though rest of the fields gets properly imported.
I don't know what's the path that I should specify for my pictures in order to get uploaded.
In my feed file I have something like this: /test.png or just test.png and I have tried to copy the image to the \var, \var\import, \var\importexport
Assuming you're using the default CSV-Import try to put them in media/import.
These are the steps i followed :
I created a category and added product to it in the backend of
magento
System->Import/Export-> "export" the csv file .
Removed the current values of the product already added then added
values new values to it.
Copied that csv file to media/import directory where images to be
uploaded were also present. (value = /image001.Jpg)
Went on to import and it says import successfully.
Output :
Products with the data uploaded successfully
BUT
No relevant images found, while i can see images uploaded in media/catalog/product..... folder
I have visited many many blogs forums, spent alot of hours for it but in vain. So in last i am posting it over here.
I would greatly appreciate if someone can post in the whole process in steps with sample Csv file and also tell us required fields and values for fields ib brief.
In my experience you have to make sure you put the image information in all the right places in the import CSV file. The three sets of image columns (image, image_label; small_image, small_image_label; thumbnail, thumbnail_label) are what set which image will be used for what purpose. And, they are one image per product.
However, it is the media images columns (_media_attribute, _media_image, _media_lable (yep, misspelled in Magento), _media_position, and _media_is_disabled) that actually define the image(s) for the product. These media image columns have to be completed on a one row per image basis. The _media_attribute is the id of that attribute (77 in my experience). The _media_image is that actual name of the image file in your media/import directory (case sensitive). The _media_lable is the title you want on the image. _media_position is the relative order of the images for this product. _media_is_disabled is the flag for each image that identifies whether the image is shown in the product media group or not.
I try this also pcproffitt: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1202982/pcproffitt
I have noticed that in my .csv file the columns were only (image, image_label; small_image, small_image_label; thumbnail, thumbnail_label) - that was from my Magento1.3 export but when I try to import it there is no error in importing but the Images were not seen on the site.
Then I found your Answer that in new version of Magento1.6 the column name is defferent it is (_media_attribute, _media_image, _media_lable (yep, misspelled in Magento), _media_position, and _media_is_disabled)
Whoops! I'm badly solving this. What would your suggestion though since I have 7000 plus products and images on my old site to transfer :( Is there a way to make this things gonna work out?
Thank you Sir!
Using Magento, is there a way to reuse the uploaded image for a product so that I can assign the same image to a different product?
You could assign the same image to the file using the export import. But this only works well if you are using one image. What you could do is export your products, set the image to be the same file on them all and reimport. That would set the image to be the same file.
Since the values are ultimately just stored as string paths in the database, the solution to this would center around changing that database value rather than using the Magento uploader (since we know that will duplicate the image).
There's a magento extension extension that makes this very easy
http://magvana.com/reuse-images-extension/