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I am working on a fully-developed site that is currently live, with hundreds, perhaps thousands of images and files in preset folders using File Manager in EE.
As a pre-purchase question, I guess... I would like to migrate the files & images to Assets, and was wondering if it was as easy as changing the channel fields from a File field to an Asset field?
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
I was doing just this last week on a few thousand entries. Assets works really well at converting.
First make sure Assets is synchronised with your upload paths. Assets creates a reference to all the files in exp_assets_files.
EE File fieldtype stores it's data in the format {filedir_x}your-file.ext, where x is the reference to upload paths config.
When changing an existing fieldtype from File to Assets, Assets matches the file name against it's stored reference in exp_assets_files and create the appropriate rows in exp_assets_selections.
I did have some issues with files starting with underscore. I've yet to work out if this is a real issue or specific to my install.
Yes, it is that easy, I've done this many times. In some earlier versions of Assets I had some issues doing this on a couple of sites, but later versions smoothed out the bumps.
As always, do this on a dev copy of the site first - or at the veery least, take a full DB backup first.
