Can anyone help a newbie?

[traci]

Hi there.  I do not know anything about Coppermine or phpBB other then being on the user end.  I had someone install them for me and they don't know it that well from what I gather.  I had someone else customize Coppermine for me and join Coppermine and phppBB and I haven't heard back from them with regarding my problems.  Thought I would try here.  I do not know php, just some html.  So please be patient with me.

I had emailed them and I will paste the email here that I sent them.  One of the problems that resulted was I had users that on each program and when we merged them some of the Coppermine albums became renamed by names from the message board that didn't even sign up or have an album with Coppermine.

Here is my email:
First of all, you know about the album names getting messed up.  Well, I
tried to fix it and I changed the Member Layout (default category) to
Un-used.  Created a new Member Layouts category and made new albums for
everyone and put the correct layouts in the correct album.  Then I made a DT
Category and gave everyone their own personal album and a DT album for their
DT projects.  Everything is where I want it, with a few problems.  I can not
get rid of the original Member Layout Category that is now labeled Not in
Use.  Even though I moved everything out of it, it still shows that it has
albums in it.  When I created a new name and uploaded a file, it
automatically goes into the not in use Category.  Also, people can make
their own album, which goes into this not in use category and upload to that
and they can upload into ScrapRooms, but I can not figure out how to give
people permission to upload into other albums, such as the DT uploading into
their own albums that I created.

So basically, the first Default Category won't go away, which if I can
delete all the empty albums in there that would be great and I will just
move things over to it.  Then I can't give the DT permission to upload to
their made by me albums.

Can you help?  I am new to this and don't get it.

End of email.

Thank you in advance.
Traci

[Nibbler]

The category that won't go away is likely the user galleries category. You can't remove that, just empty it of albums and it won't show any more. Permissions for this are controlled by the groups page. Upload permissions for normal albums are set globally in the groups page, and set per album in album properties.

[traci]

Thanks for replying Nibbler.

I can't figure out how to get the albums out of the user gallery.  I clicked on everything and I did not see where I can do that.  It is not listed in the category list.

I have the groups page set up for people can upload to public albums, but it doesn't seem to work.  THey can only upload to one album, other then their own that they create in the user gallery, which I don't want to use.  The one album is the album I made before we connected the two boards together.  Could there be a glitch? 

I can get to an album page, but not album properties.  On the album page I can just call up what albums are in each catagory.