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Apart from having a stupid name (almost as brain dead as calling something .NET or COM) I actually really liked PHP Gallery. It was easy to set up and it did everything I wanted. Then one of my users created a sub album. Two actually. And I couldn't work out how to delete it. Unlike the main album there didn't seem to be a handy dandy button to say delete. Since it seemed to be directory based rather than DB base I did something slightly stupid. I just deleted the directory of the second album. (Which was in the root albums diretcory, not a subdirectory of the directory of its parent album). Without making a backup first. DOH! This actually appeared to do nothing. Apparently, I found out after trawling through the various web sites out there, what I should have done is scrolled through all 400 photos looking for the virtual photo representing the sub album. Anfd then hit 'album actions -> delete'. This worked fine for the first album but threw an error syaing that the second album didn't exist. So I grep for the name (album02) and find it in photos.dat of the parent album (still with me) which appears to be a serialised data structure. I make a backup and edit photos.dat by hand. Which causes all the photos in the parent album to disapear. DOH! Restore. Chew finger nails. Create two new sub albums. Sure enough these are given the name album01 and album02. Delete the orphan album02. It works! Huzzah! Delete the new album01. It works! Delete the new album02. Failure! Chew finger nails again. Repeat steps again but this time back up new album02 dir, delete orphan album02, delete new album01, restore album02 dir, delete orphan album02. SUCCESS! PIMMS ALL ROUND! Of course now I'm worried that other data is in an inconsistent state but it *looks* ok. What a fucking palaver.
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