So as you may or not know I'm in the process of moving from smugmug to zenfolio. In many ways it's no different from moving your belongings in an apartment or house move. I was bit worried, it took me the better part of 3 years to upload the 30,000 pictures (75gigs) to my website. Never mind my near OCD organization habits. The thought of packing, moving and unpacking, or in digital terms; uploading and organizing would have made for some sleepless nights I'm sure (not that photography doesn't provide that all by itself).

You have to check this out, http://www.uploadjunction.com/. He's a third party programer that wrote this really cool and EASY to use interface that runs in the background and emails you when it's done. He did warn me, that given the volume of my content and the traffic on his servers, "it may take a while". That's ok, it took Carbonite 47 days to back up my 250 gigs when I signed up with them. Currently there are about 9000 pics to go.

Here is the best part (in my opinion, my blog, my opinion!!) IT MAINTAINS THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FROM SMUGMUG!!! The pictures move in the folders and galleries that they were in and are neatly organized in a locked (hidden from the public) easily identifiable "Group" called "Smugmug Import".

If I was so inclined, I could simply unlock some or all of the galleries and viola!! Same stuff, different host. Although, I'm taking the opportunity to clean things up a bit. Perhaps OCD can change to CDO (the order it should be in anyway).

Thanks Denis (upload junction) and Thanks everyone I have dealt with thus far at Zenfolio.

Neil