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WARNING:smugDAV is highly experimental. I wouldn't even call it BETA level software just yet. If you're not comfortable fiddling with your computer, and potentially breaking something, please don't try this!
SmugDAV is a means to mount your entire SmugMug site, including Categories, SubCategories, and Galleries, as if it were a drive on your PC. This makes for fast, easy backups - simply copy and paste files from SmugMug to some other local drive, such as a hard-disk, CD/DVD burner, etc.
Some caveats:
- SmugDAV is READ ONLY at this time. This means the following do not work, currently, though it is planned for the future:
- Copying files from your computer to your smugDAV drive.
- Copying files from one folder in smugDAV to another smugDAV folder
- Deleting any files inside of your smugDAV folder
- Renaming any folders or files
- Creating new folders
- SmugDAV uses a unique naming scheme to make it easy to correlate the folders and images to SmugMug's layout at a later date. It's highly recommended that you maintain these special folder and filenames for easy comparison and re-uploading to SmugMug, but that's your call. They work as follows:
- C####_???? is a Category, and the #### represents the category's ID
- S####_???? is a SubCategory, and the #### represents the subcategory's ID
- A####_???? is a Gallery (aka Album), and the #### represents the gallery's ID
- ####_??????.jpg is the actual photo, and the #### represents the image's ID
- Currently, SmugDAV is recommended only as a means to make copies, for backups or otherwise, of your photos. No other use is intended, though that will change in the future.
Try it out on SmugDAV for Windows or SmugDAV for Mac if you're not too faint of heart 
Fix from our community of Smuggers!
"I too can not connect via the instructions on the Wiki via Vista. But, I googled and found that there are two MS hotfixes that are said to resolve WebDAV issues.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907306
will give it a go, see what happens
edit: this works...add this update, and you can connect to smugdav as you expect...good luck!"
I'm getting the same error, looks like it's not working at this time. Please reapir it so I may download my database of photos for backup.
Posted by Anonymous
at Mar 09, 2008 13:48
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I am getting the same error. "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another."
Currently running Windows Vista.
Posted by Anonymous
at Mar 16, 2008 16:27
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Same problem as above. Any fix? I want to break Vista!
Posted by Anonymous
at Mar 22, 2008 14:50
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Hate to join the crowd...but looks like Vista won't connect (i tried my XP machine, no problems).
Posted by Anonymous
at Apr 08, 2008 18:37
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I am not able to connect via Konqueror from Linux. I don't use Windows or Mac but should still be able to use WebDav connections. Part of the difficulty is that my Smugmug user ID has the "@" symbol in it. The Konqueror method for connecting to a Webdav share is a URL like "webdavs://userid@example.com". Two "@" symbols in the URL is not permitted.
BTW, if I connect with the URL webdavs://upload.smugmug.com/smugdav.mg without user ID or password I see a bunch of category directories but all of them are empty. I assume it is a test connection of some kind.
Posted by Anonymous
at Apr 21, 2008 23:04
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Guys, I really do hope you'll work on that and allow write soon! I mean, if I ever be able to upload photos using my beloved Total Commander (+WebDAV plugin, of course) this will be like heaven for me!!!
Posted by Anonymous
at May 24, 2008 16:31
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Hi, I was trying to use this with Vista, but when I type in the URL, it says "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid".
Do you know if this should work with Vista?
Thanks,
Jay