SmugDAV

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