diff --git a/piwigo_refresh.pl b/piwigo_refresh.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# author: Sebastian P.
+# version: 1.0
+#
+# usage:
+# perl piwigo_import_tree.pl
+#    --base_url=http://address/of/your/piwigo
+#    --site=site_index (default galleries=1)
+#    --user=your_username
+#    --password=your_password
+#    --directory=absolute path to your photos
+#    [--caddie=0 or 1]
+#    [--privacy_level=4 or 8]
+#    [--cat=categorie_id]
+#    [--subcat=0 or 1]
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+# make it compatible with Windows, but breaks Linux
+#use utf8;
+
+use File::Find;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use File::Basename;
+use LWP::UserAgent;
+use JSON;
+use Getopt::Long;
+use Encode qw/is_utf8 decode/;
+use Time::HiRes qw/gettimeofday tv_interval/;
+use Digest::MD5 qw/md5 md5_hex/;
+
+my %opt = ();
+GetOptions(
+    \%opt,
+    qw/
+          base_url=s
+	  site=s
+          username=s
+          password=s
+          directory=s
+		caddie=s
+		privacy_level=s
+		cat=s
+		subcat=s
+      /
+);
+
+my $album_dir = $opt{directory};
+$album_dir =~ s{^\./*}{};
+
+our $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
+$ua->agent('Mozilla/piwigo_refresh.pl 1.00');
+$ua->cookie_jar({});
+
+my %conf;
+my %conf_default = (
+    base_url => 'http://localhost:81/piwigogit',
+    site => 1,
+    username => 'plg',
+    password => 'plg',
+	caddie => 0,
+	privacy_level => 4,
+	cat => 162,
+	subcat => 1,
+);
+foreach my $conf_key (keys %conf_default) {
+    $conf{$conf_key} = defined $opt{$conf_key} ? $opt{$conf_key} : $conf_default{$conf_key}
+}
+
+$ua->default_headers->authorization_basic(
+    $conf{username},
+    $conf{password}
+);
+
+my $result = undef;
+my $query = undef;
+
+binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf-8)";
+
+# Login to Piwigo
+piwigo_login();
+piwigo_refreshFolder();
+piwigo_refresh();
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Functions
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub piwigo_login {
+    $ua->post(
+        $conf{base_url}.'/ws.php?format=json',
+        {
+            method => 'pwg.session.login',
+            username => $conf{username},
+            password => $conf{password},
+        }
+    );
+}
+
+sub piwigo_refresh {
+	if ($conf{cat} > 0)
+	{
+	$ua->post(
+		$conf{base_url}.'/admin.php?page=site_update&site='.$conf{site},
+		{
+			sync => 'files',
+			display_info => 0,
+			add_to_caddie => $conf{caddie},
+			privacy_level => $conf{privacy_level},
+			sync_meta  => 1,
+			simulate => 0,
+			cat => $conf{cat},
+			'subcats-included' => $conf{subcat},
+			submit => 1,
+		}
+	);
+	}
+	else
+	{
+	$ua->post(
+		$conf{base_url}.'/admin.php?page=site_update&site='.$conf{site},
+		{
+			sync => 'files',
+			display_info => 0,
+			add_to_caddie => $conf{caddie},
+			privacy_level => $conf{privacy_level},
+			sync_meta  => 1,
+			simulate => 0,
+			#cat => $conf{cat},
+			'subcats-included' => $conf{subcat},
+			submit => 1,
+		}
+	);
+	}
+}
+
+sub piwigo_refreshFolder {
+	$ua->post(
+		$conf{base_url}.'/admin.php?page=site_update&site='.$conf{site},
+		{
+			sync => 'dirs',
+			display_info => 0,
+			privacy_level => $conf{privacy_level},
+			sync_meta  => 1,
+			simulate => 0,
+			#cat => $conf{cat},
+			'subcats-included' => 1,
+			submit => 1,
+		}
+	);
+}
diff --git a/piwigo_thumbgen.sh b/piwigo_thumbgen.sh
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+++ b/piwigo_thumbgen.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#Author: Poul Serek
+
+shopt -s globstar
+
+#echo "Starting Piwigo thumbnail generation"
+
+#Remember a trailing '/'
+sourceDir="$1"
+destDir="$2"
+
+echo "Source: $sourceDir"
+echo "Dest: $destDir" 
+
+counter=0
+fnNoExt=""
+fnExt=""
+fnPath=""
+
+STARTTIME=$(date +%s)
+
+# drop CIFS cache in case target files existed before 
+sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches;
+
+for file in "$sourceDir"/**/*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG}
+do
+        if [[ ! -f "$file" ]]
+        then
+                continue
+        fi
+
+	case $file in
+		*[[:space:]]*)
+			# replace all blanks
+			mv "${file}" "${file// /_}"
+			file=${file// /_}
+			echo "Space replaced: ${file}"
+			;;
+	esac
+
+        fnNoExt="${file%.*}"
+        fnExt="${file##*.}"
+        fnPath="${file%/*}"
+        fnPath="${fnPath#$sourceDir}"
+        fnNoExt="${fnNoExt#$sourceDir}"
+
+        #echo "${fnPath}  ${fnNoExt}"
+
+        #If the medium thumbnail exists we assume that the rest also exists and skip this image
+        if [ ! -f "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-me.${fnExt}" ]; then
+	
+		mkdir -p "${destDir}${fnPath}"
+	
+		#Error checking
+        	result=$(jpeginfo -c "$file")
+	        if [[ $result != *"[OK]"* ]]
+        	then
+                	echo $result
+	        fi
+
+		# Auto rotate source image according to exif orientation information
+		orient=$(exiftool -Orientation "${file}")
+		if [ ! -z "${$orient##*"normal"*}" ]; then
+			mogrify -auto-rotate -quality 94 "${file}" #> /dev/null 2>&1 
+		fi
+                #echo "MISSING! ${destDir}${fnNoExt}-me.${fnExt}"
+                #Store correctly oriented base image (medium) in memory. All other thumbnails are created from this
+                convert "${file}" -auto-orient -thumbnail 1008x756^ -write mpr:baseline +delete \
+                	mpr:baseline -write "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-la.${fnExt}" +delete \
+			mpr:baseline -thumbnail 792x594 -write "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-me.${fnExt}" +delete \
+			mpr:baseline -thumbnail 150x9999 -write "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-cu_s150x9999.${fnExt}" +delete \
+			mpr:baseline -thumbnail 144x144 -write "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-th.${fnExt}" +delete \
+			mpr:baseline -define jpeg:size=144x144 -thumbnail 120x120^ -gravity center -extent 120x120 "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-sq.${fnExt}"
+			#mpr:baseline -resize 240x240 -write "${destDir}${fnNoExt}-2s.${fnExt}" +delete \
+	fi
+        counter=$[$counter +1]
+        if [ $(($counter%100)) -eq 0 ]; then
+                ENDTIME=$(date +%s)
+                echo "Processed: ${counter} - Executing for $((($ENDTIME - $STARTTIME)/60)) minutes"
+        fi
+done
+
+chown -R www-data: ${destDir}
+
+ENDTIME=$(date +%s)
+echo "It took $((($ENDTIME - $STARTTIME)/60)) minutes to complete this task..."
diff --git a/piwirefresh.sh b/piwirefresh.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+catId=0
+subCatId=1
+
+if [ "$1" != "" ] && [ "$2" != "" ]
+then
+        catId=$1
+        subCatId=$2
+fi
+
+
+perl -w /root/script/piwigo_refresh.pl \
+	--base_url=https://change.me/gallery \
+	--site=2 \
+	--user="-change me-" \
+	--password="-change me-" \
+	--directory="/var/www/piwigo/network" \
+	--caddie=0 \
+	--privacy_level=4 \
+	--cat=${catId} \
+	--subcat=${subCatId}
diff --git a/piwisync.sh b/piwisync.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+myyear=$(date "+%Y")
+
+if [ "$1" != "" ]
+then
+	myyear=$1
+	#echo Error subdir parameter missing
+	#exit 1;
+fi
+
+subDir="$myyear/"
+piwigoThumbRoot="/var/www/piwigo/_data/i/network/network/${subDir}"
+networkPhotoRoot="/home/network/Qbilder/photos/${subDir}"
+
+if [ ! -e ${networkPhotoRoot} ]
+then
+	echo "${networkPhotoRoot} not found"
+	exit 1;
+fi
+
+/root/script/piwigo_thumbgen.sh "${networkPhotoRoot}" "${piwigoThumbRoot}"
+
+/root/script/piwirefresh.sh