The synchronisation features are intended for the situation where you maintain a large library of files on your server, neatly organised into directories and subdirectories, and you want LDM to translate that directory/file structure into the corresponding category/entry structure, and automatically create/delete categories and entries as necessary.

Two examples:
a) you are running your web server directly on a PC where you also maintain your personal photo library or music library. Rather than using LDM to upload and enter the files one at a time, you can use it to monitor the contents of the directories where you are storing these photo/music files.
b) you have a group of support staff who provide files to you by ftp upload. You don't want them to bother adding them to LDM; instead you can use the LDM synchronisation features to add them automatically.

What the synchronisation feature can't do is provide descriptive entries for the categories or entries, but you can do this yourself after these have been created.

Hope that's clear.

Oh, ok, but what if i use thumnails or a second image, does this search for the thumbnail or i should also add it later? :)

Thanks Andrew!

If the thumbnail comes from the entry itself, then it's created automatically. If you use a second image, then you have to add it later.

Installed ok as far as I can see but when I try and upload say a short movie clip it goes through the upload process ok, then it just says its ok but nothing shows in the catagory?

Also sometimes it just says its finished uploading and it just repeats the same white page over and over again and if I refresh it nothing has uploaded?

Any ideas?

Take a look at your php.ini settings (ldm/admin/settings or vb/admincp/maintenance/phpinfo) and see if you are actually able to upload files of the size you are trying (post_max_size, upload_max_filesize). Check that post_max_size has a larger value than upload_max_filesize.

Try uploading a small pdf file just to check that the basic upload process is working ok.

Tried a small upload and that failed, it said "The page cannot be displayed".

Any ideas?

Good, i'll test this feature, thanks Andrew! :D

Hello,
unfortunately I have a small problem and must you again trouble.
I changed and now can the server I unfortunately no new left with me more enter.
If I enter everything and on send press then come after approximately 3 min a white side, or he says procedure worked on, please to wait.

There it remains hanging then.

You can help me please.

Greeting Rene

Same sort of problem here.

When I click on _http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/local_links_admin.php and in there I click Settings then I click Update I get the following error:

Website found.
White page
Done

Then The page cannot be displayed Cannot find server or DNS Error

If I then refresh the page, then I see the page ok but nothing has changed.

Any ideas?

Have re uploded all files and still getting the same error?