[support] Copying you rimages to your drupal server

[Roger]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 12:00 +0000, support-request at drupal.org wrote:
> Is there actually a way to upload photos into my website without any 
> modules? Also, how would I set it up so that photos would go into my 
> private files directory? 

Hi Andre
Yes I do this frequently because image upload in drupal 7 doesn't work.
Open your server drupal/sites/default/files/images directory with your
ftp server.

You can create a directory but I find that /sites/default/files/images
seems to work well as the default.

You can create new directories in the /images directory if you wish.
Using ftp copy all the images you have prepared previously into
the /images directory or the directories you have created in the /images
directory.

I use filezilla or gftp.
I usually reset the permissions on my /images/my/directory to read only
after copying images across.

You have to ensure the images you copy over from your computer are the
right width, height and resolution you want to display. I use maximum
300 wide, up to 600 long and 72 dpi. Mostly smaller than those
dimensions 180px x 250px so that I can have text to the side of the
image.

To get the images to display in drupal 7 is a bit of a mine field.
I could not get CKeditor to place images well at all, and CKfinder is a
dead loss for me in drupal 7 so I code the url by hand using the default
drupal 7 CCK. 


You need to enter the full url, not
just /sites/default/images/your/directory. 
For example,
http://public_ftp/yourdrupal7/sites/default/files/images/your/directory/
my-image.jpg

Hope this helps
Roger