Magento import products with images

Question

I have tried all afternoon to import some products in Magento, but all without any success. After trial and errors it all came down an \"Image does not exist\" error. I have

Answer 1

For those who bored with endless bugs of Magento's out of box Dataflow profiles and considers paid solutions: check this one. With it you simply avoid 99% popular errors raising during importing products with images:

-- no BOM character problem (as it's going to happen through online CSV editor)

-- no "wrong paths" problems (you can set the path where to pick up images in settings, if the image is missing - the log will inform you immediately)

-- no "multiple images" problem: you can import small_image, thumbnail, image fields along with "media_gallery" field containing multiple paths separated by semicolon.

Also, it can EXPORT, so if something goes wrong and you can't figure out what happened - just create your product manually, upload image manually via magento admin, and then just EXPORT this products. It will populate the CSV with proper paths to the images, it will also copy all the required images into the folder that you set in settings as "Media folder". So you can import them back without taking care if the images are in correct folders.

I know most people are looking for free stuff, but if you spent already dozen hours struggling with Dataflow to achieve a simple task of bulk assigning images to the products - I bet you understand what I'm talking about :)