Hey all - new to this site and looks like quite a bit of useful information. I just recently signed up to smugmug and hopefully can contribute some tricks and lessons learned going forward.
My goal for smugmug would be to backup my local photos onto smugmug. With the unlimited data, its a great candidate for this. Having access to pictures anywhere i have an internet connection is a bonus. My second goal would be to be able to make additional gallery's that i can organize for family and friends. Above all, my goals is privacy. Not that i'm ashamed of my 'little kitten' photos, i just prefer to keep photos as private as possible. (and yes, i do understand smugmug has visibility to all photos).
So - initially, i createf a private folder at the root. I created sub folders below the private root folder which inherits the privacy from its parent (nice). i then created a private gallery below the private folders.
My second step was to create a unlisted/public folder & gallary at the root in parallel to my private folder. My thinking was that these "unlisted" or "Public" folders i would be able to drag some of my private pictures into it. Hence, i could control which pictures where visible and which pictures were not. Immediately i found out that a "unlisted" or "public" gallery can't access a "private" folder/gallery.
I was told by smugmug that this is intentional. No private/unlisted folder could reference a private folder. I was informed my options where to make a copy of the photo into the unlisted/public folder. I tried that and it did work - but the procedure and interface to do this was ridiculous and furthermore you couldn't tell which photo is the copy and which was the private. I wouldn't' even credit this solution a hack.
So, i'm trying to find out from you out there. How would one organize their folders to achieve private photos with unlisted/public photos
As far as i can tell i have the following options:
1) Smugmug Copy each photo i want to place into put into the unlisted/public folder as mentioned above.
2) Change my private folder to be unlisted w/ password.
3) Upload another copy of photo to unlisted/public folder.
4) Use some 3rd party application that would copy the photo in a much more elegant manner. I'm on Mac OSx.
Really, unless i'm missing an option, i can only see option #4 being feasible, yet i haven't found any 3rd party apps that do this.
If i did change my private folder to unlisted/ password, does that equal to the same privacy as a folder being private?
thank you
~george