Yes. In the option description it says:

It means, if you have a gallery folder, you would add in a new line:

/gallery/

If it is a subdomain or domain:

gallery.domain.tld

If it is ImageShack:

imageshack.

And don't forget to backup your post table this time ;)

The point is: it moves external images to your server. But I can't tell if it is useful to you :)

I only have a complete backup from about 6 months ago and Ive since upgraded from 3.6 to 4.1.4 Is it possible to only use the one table from the complete backup and since its the older version of VB would that be a problem?

It is a problem, because the database structure has changed. In order to use the backup you would have to restore the backup in a sandbox, upgrade, backup again and restore as indicated with replace into. However there is no guarantee it works, because I suppose you have (had) also other plugins and probably the database structure isn't exactly the same.

Yep it has changed.

So to be clear since I would like to use the mod.

in the white list, if my site is root/forum and root/gallery all I need to do is add /gallery/ to the list.

Perhaps I was reckless but I wanted image resizing, so I installed the 1.0.5 version on my test board.

I was not sure from the instructions whether the mod would create the /images/import directory or I would need to do that, so I ran it for a little while without manually creating the directory. The directory did not appear, so I then created the directory with 755 permissions.

I then ran the mod for about an hour and checked the table iei_img to see what was going on. The table shows a number of images have been re-url'd with many going to year based subdirectories and many just being ignored because they were invalid.

However, the /images/import/ directory remains empty.

Here is a translated url from the table

http://mb.nawcc.org/forum/images/imported/2006/11/1.jpg

Are these entries just a "plan of work" and the code actually does the transfers as another background task?

I have turned the mod off by disabling the cron job at the moment

Yes, you would add add /gallery/ to the list. This however may also exclude /gallery/ images from anywhere else ... so maybe it's a good idea to include the domain, too, e.g.:

mydomain.com/gallery/

And please don't forget the backup! :)

These subfolders are created from the post date of the one they were taken from. The code parses posts one by one and tries to find pasted image references. If it finds one, it creates a new entry ([forumhome][setting]/year/month/progressive.extension) and imports the image and changes the reference in the post. Then it sets a flag to the post in order to avoid reparsing with value 1. Other values may follow for additional services and new add-ons.

If an image was imported previously, it just sets the new reference.

Doesn't seem to be working for me - vB 4.1.5.

Either the cron task is not running (when running it manually, it completes in an instant), or the code is not working. Either way, none of the images are being downloaded, or the URL replaced.

Any ideas?