[Solved]: A little bit of trouble after attack

[umad80]

After fighting with my host for almost a week in fixing this, I finally figured it out on my own. (I don't know if anyone else reported this, but I had index files throughout userpic albums!) Everything is working fine and properly. However, prior to this, my ingenious host thought a restore would solve the problem. Obviously it wouldn't because the files were still there and needed to be removed. But because of this restore, I'm missing files that were there after the day they restored back to. When I try to readd them to keep the views and such, no such luck. I figured this is because of the restore. The problem gets worse, when I try to delete the folders that have no pictures or the files that are stated to be there but not, I get a message like this:

Directory 'albums/out/jack the ripper/' is not writable, files can't be deleted

Now, I wanted to make sure this problem wasn't specific to just the files added after the restore date. Everything else is fine. I'm able to delete or edit other albums and files just fine.

I apologize up front if this has been discussed or if I'm not in the proper forum. I've looked for the specific 'not writable' string, but found nothing.

[Nibbler]

Easiest way is to create the folder mentioned in the message. Also, avoid using spaces in URLs.

[umad80]

Not entirely sure what you mean. Because it does exist. If I go to albums and create it, it's already there. It's not in my FTP - it was completely gone. I can't get rid of the album, or the files under the album. To show you what I mean: http://www.rupert-grint.us/gallery/index.php?cat=37

I tried to see if uploading them and adding them would do anything and it wouldn't let me do that either.

[Nibbler]

How can you say 'Because it does exist' and 'It's not in my FTP' in the same post ?

Create the folder albums/out/jack the ripper/

[umad80]

Because that is exactly what it did. I could see it in the gallery, but when I went to upload the files to try and restore them, the album did not exist in the ftp. I don't know why, but I can assure you that I had to recreate the album.

Look, when I click on 'albums', and then put in the category 'out and about' from the drop down menu, the 'jack the ripper' one exists still. When I try to delete it, it won't let me. It won't let me do anything to those files.

[Nibbler]

Stop talking about albums. Login to your FTP, go to albums/out and create the folder 'jack the ripper'. Now you can delete the files from within Coppermine.

[umad80]

You know, you do not have to be such an ass. You NEVER said anything about doing this in the FTP program. I told you specifically I did not know what you meant. You then made a snippy remarked about how I couldn't have it on my website and not in my FTP. I was clearly not understanding what you were meaning. Especially considering you wondered how I could have it on my website, but not my FPT, making me believe that that is what I was suppose to be doing. All you had to do was TELL me to create the album in my FTP. I thank you for the help, but next time, be more specific. I've used Coppermine for 4 years now, and this is the first problem and the only time I've asked for help. If you had been specific, this would've been resolved quicker than in the time it took you to write three posts to me.

[Joachim Müller]

You know, you do not have to be such an ass.

Not having a clue, not having read the docs, swearing, being ungratefull for free help. Result: ban. Farewell.