lost pictures after gallery creation

[crazydad]

hi

is there any way to edit the text on the "upload file" page to warn users to create an album before they upload any files. if they try to create an album after the files have been uploaded, the files are gone (or are they???)

please, any answers in very plain english :-\

thanks

[Joachim Müller]

Not sure what you mean: if users don't have permission to upload to at least one album, they will be told so on the upload screen. If they have at least one album their uploads can go to, their upload is accepted. Subsequently, in stage one of the upload the specify the files they want to upload. In stage two, they specify what albums their upload should go to. If they skip the second stage (i.e. if they fail to specify where their uploads is suppossed to go), their uploaded files are lost. Technically speaking, they then reside in a temporary folder on the webserver's diskspace, where they are being deleted after some time by a garbage collection routine.
If you have issues with uploading, you should do exactly as suggested in the upload troubleshooting section of the docs. It is mandatory that you do so if you need help with uploading.

[crazydad]

hi again, sorry for being so vague. what i was meaning to say was that the users do have permission to upload to various albums in the gallery but i meant that if they want to create a personal album and don't do so before uploading their images, the uploads will be lost and will have to be uploaded again after they create an album. i was just wondering if i could edit the text on the upload file page to 'warn' them to create a personal album before uploading anything.

hope this is a bit clearer

thanks

[Nibbler]

Edit your language file eg. lang/english.php

[crazydad]

thats it!!

thanks very much.