Well I don't understand why the albums don't show in the list under the edit files dialog but I figured out a way. I just went into the database and changed the Album ID field. Seems to have worked -- hopefuuly there's no side effects.
There should be no side effects, as moving albums around with coppermine's user interface is doing the same thing.
I'm sorry you feel I've wasted your time. I was unable to delete my extra post on this forum.
If deleting is not an option (we don't allow users to delete their postings, as some tend to delete their question once they got an answer out of sheer selfishness, which quite defeats the idea of having a support forum), you could have edited your post to say "I've posted this on thread xxx as well", or you could have replied to it saying "accidental double post, moderator please merge/delete".
As a longtime OS developer (20+ years) and ex-employee of Cygnus I am a bit surprised at your post. Perhaps you were having a bad day.
I apologize, maybe I over-reacted. But especially if you know how development works, you should try to understand how support boards of an open source project the size of coppermine work, and how to avoid to make the supporters mad...
I willingly give free support if I have the impression the user has done everything he could to find an answer for himself, and he has provided all the information we need to support him. This includes respecting board rules, netiquette and common sense. If the user doesn't respect the rules (maybe because he doesn't know them), I'll tell him about the rules. If I get the impression the user still doesn't respect the rules after having been told, I get reluctant to actually help, because imo not respecting the rules means not respecting the work of all the unpaid volunteers.
Joachim