Import media file

The icon just means Kentico detected a file but has no Database record of it. If you hit the import button it will create a record and generate a GUID for it.

Is the old site also Kentico? Even still there probably are references to that images which you'll break.

So you probably need to create a import for the pages and make sure all links to media is correctly mapped.

Check out the api samples for some pointers.

if you just need a way of importing all files not in Kentico yet, you'll have to create a method that reads all folders and files and tries to map it to the records in the Database.

Have a look at CMSModules/MediaLibrary/Controls/MediaLibrary/MediaLibrary.ascx for a starting point.

Here is some code that I have used to import files into a MediaLibrary. As already suggested you would need to read the files on the disk so that you can create the Media Library file object.

Note: that the code below is a subset of a larger block that reads an old database and copies the files before creating the Media Library File Object.

// Prepares a CMS.IO.FileInfo object representing the local file
CMS.IO.FileInfo file = CMS.IO.FileInfo.New(filePath);

if (file != null && file.Exists)
{
    // the path to the image within the library
    string mediaPath = "Subfolder/Images/" + file.Name;

    // Creates a new media library file object
    MediaFileInfo mediaFile = MediaFileInfoProvider.GetMediaFileInfo(library.LibraryID, mediaPath);
    if (mediaFile == null)
    {
        mediaFile = new MediaFileInfo(filePath, library.LibraryID);
    }

    // Sets the media library file properties
    mediaFile.FileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file.Name);
    mediaFile.FileTitle = ValidationHelper.GetString(row["images_caption"], "");
    mediaFile.FileDescription = ValidationHelper.GetString(row["images_description"], "");
    mediaFile.FilePath = "Subfolder/Images/"; 
    mediaFile.FileExtension = file.Extension;
    mediaFile.FileMimeType = MimeTypeHelper.GetMimetype(file.Extension);
    mediaFile.FileSiteID = 1;
    mediaFile.FileLibraryID = library.LibraryID;
    mediaFile.FileSize = file.Length;

    MediaFileInfoProvider.SetMediaFileInfo(mediaFile, false, userId);
}