Switching between Admin & User Modes with bridge active

[AuGuR]

General question and not too sure if this is where it belongs..

When setting up the categories in admin mode, I went ahead and created my albums in the categories so I could upload some images then.  Now when I switched to user mode, my albums for uploading to the categories I created in Admin mode were no longer available.  Is this normal?

[Sami]

YES , when you switch to user mode you can see only your personal album and those album that have set "yes" for Visitors can upload files

[Joachim Müller]

You're not suppossed to switch to user mode except for seeing your theme without the admin controls during the theme design stage. From the docs:

4.2 Admin mode & User mode

When you are logged in as an administrator, the script provides two modes of operation : Admin mode & User mode. You can switch between Admin & User mode by clicking on the corresponding link in the menu bar at the top of the screen.

When you are in admin mode, you can administer your gallery using the menu bar that appears when in admin mode, as shown below :

(https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcoppermine-gallery.net%2Fdemo%2Fcpg14x%2Fdocs%2Fpics%2Fadmin_menu.gif&hash=e7d81544a1551624fe1ddca347ac4c7fb888c2c1)

When you are in user mode you are still logged in as an admin user, but the admin controls (the admin menu bar etc.) are hidden from the screen to give you a basic preview of what the page would look like for "regular users". However (as you still are logged in as admin), certain permissions and options in user mode will still look the same as if you were in admin mode; you can not use "User Mode" to see what a non-admin user is actually allowed to see. To see what a casual visitor can see and do on your site, simply log out. To see what a registered user can see and do on your site, create a test user account (non-admin) and log in with this particular user (when doing this it is recommended that you use two different browsers, NOT two instances of the same browswer, to view your site so you can stay logged in as admin on one and view what regular users see while making changes in admin mode. You will have to refresh the non-admin mode screen to see what changes you incorporated).