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When trying to import images via CSV imported, we ran into numerous problems. At first, we assumed the dynamic resizing would allow us to just map to the field "product_full_image" and the system would automatically generate a thumbnail at our presets of 90x90.

We had to also use the field "product_thumb_image".

Given that the CSV control panel said it was going to upload from the media folder (we assume that is what the control panel is suggesting), we uploaded both the FULL image and THUMBNAIL into MEDIA folder path of Joomla.

root/media

That did not work.

In the template setting, the image path default is the root/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/

So, we moved the images there.

That did not work.

We copied the images back to the media folder, then imported, and now the website has both thumbnails and full images.

So, either we do not understand the instructions, or there is a bug in CSVimproved which requires the images be loaded in 2 places.

To reduce excess usage of hard drive space, we deleted the images in root/media.

System notes:

Database Version:       5.0.51a-community

Database Collation:     utf8_general_ci

PHP Version:      5.2.5

Web Server:       Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

Web Server to PHP interface: cgi

Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.3 Production/Stable [ Vahi ] 22-April-2008 22:00 GMT

VirtueMart 1.1.2

Name: CSV Improved

Version: 0.9 RC 1