First, let me say, That NO ONE should be kicking themselves about this issue. These things happen. All it shows is that this a computer system. It may show that we may need to get better coordination. It also shows that I need to automated the creation of photo galleries, which I have been avoiding becuase of the work involved.
Now what happened? First, it was not as bad as it looked. Everything was there. The reason, it took so long was I wanted to be very careful so I didn't make things worse.
I had to look at the DB first so I coulld see what really happened, before I tried to fix it. Then since I was there I fixed it there, but it could have been fixed from the admincp.
Oh one other, a catergory disappears, adding another with the same name, is not good idea. In a database system such as this, the name has no real meaning, the true identy of cats and their hierarchial relationship is a unique number assigned by the system. cat 4 = Member's Abums. It name got changed to cmartinson's album, somehow and it settings were changed to be that which we use for for member's album plus thos of a highest level cat. So everything was there, but was not being displayed.
Now what happened? First, it was not as bad as it looked. Everything was there. The reason, it took so long was I wanted to be very careful so I didn't make things worse.
I had to look at the DB first so I coulld see what really happened, before I tried to fix it. Then since I was there I fixed it there, but it could have been fixed from the admincp.
Oh one other, a catergory disappears, adding another with the same name, is not good idea. In a database system such as this, the name has no real meaning, the true identy of cats and their hierarchial relationship is a unique number assigned by the system. cat 4 = Member's Abums. It name got changed to cmartinson's album, somehow and it settings were changed to be that which we use for for member's album plus thos of a highest level cat. So everything was there, but was not being displayed.