TGPX - Merge Categories or Edit Database By Hand?

[Toby]

You can easily mass edit to change category. Do a search that pulls up all the galleries to be changed, then change the category of the first and click the double disk icon to save changes to all matching galleries. Just that simple.

Double check to make sure the old category has 0 galleries, then it can be deleted.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Pagan

I have no idea how you did tried to do this. I rename categories through the Settings frequently.
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In the top image, that first category is Anal Lesbians. I have been changing these to one word just because. I went to Settings, Categories, and found the one I want to change. Clicked on the pencil, made my change... I made it AnalLes. And if you look at the lower screenshot, you can see no more Anal Lesbian category. If it had done the copy thing, you still would have seen Anal Lesbian, then Anal MILF, right? But no.. you do see the new AnalLes category though.

You didn't have a category already named AnalLes with galleries in it.

Originally Posted by Toby

You can easily mass edit to change category. Do a search that pulls up all the galleries to be changed, then change the category of the first and click the double disk icon to save changes to all matching galleries. Just that simple.

All the galleries are tagged with multiple different categories, so let's say the 1st one is tagged:
Amateur,Blowjob,ThreesomeFFM,Blonde,Milf,zzzMilf
If I change zzzMilf to Hardcore & then click the icon, won't that apply those 6 categories to ALL of the galleries?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

If I change zzzMilf to Hardcore & then click the icon, won't that apply those 6 categories to ALL of the galleries?

Yeah, if zzzMilf is one of multiple categories, then the mass edit will not work.

[Pagan]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

You didn't have a category already named AnalLes with galleries in it.

No, I didn't have an AnalLes category before, but I had Anal Lesbian. I edited the name of the category. I thought that was what you were trying to do. Anal Lesbian had 71 galleries. It is now gone. The edited AnalLes category now has 71 galleries. You do have to go back and edit any page templates that called out the old name.

If you edit the name of ANY category, then it will be applied automatically to all of the galleries with that old category.

Just imagine it this way - your categories are just like filing cabinet drawers. If you have one labeled Anal, and want to change it to Ass, all you have to do is change the name of the filing cabinet drawer and it will apply that change to all of the contents inside. The templates have their own drawer, so you have to manually update those.


So, if you did NOT have a hardcore category before and wanted to put everything that had that zzzMILF category there, all you have to do is go to Settings and change the Category name. It will apply to all of the galleries in the old zzzMILF drawer because now that drawer is called Hardcore.

If, though, you exported galleries before you made the change... then imported them afterwards, they still have the old category on them, and they WILL make a new category for them. The other way to do it is NOT designate a category when you do your import and select it -- Bad Categories go into --->