Hey stramm,
I've replicated the problems on your sandbox.
user: bitcloud
password:god
1 public album, 1 "buddies" album
1 picture uploaded in each
0 friends
you can only see "public album" in the "my gallery" section.
The "buddies" album can be uploaded to, reordered and modified without any problems, but you simply can't view it without a single buddy on your list. (you can change it to public and it appears, change it back and it disappears)
I noticed on my server that it *seemed* to be assigning them to the admin account (or uid=1 perhaps?) because I could see the albums in that account. (but I'd test that out on your end.. i don't want to send you on a wild goose chase
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Second Experiment:
I've created a few more friendly chaps:
bitcloudfriend1
bitcloudfriend2
bitcloudfriend3
password: god
And I've done different things on each one - added one as friends, uploaded two images, one image etc - to see how it holds up...
No problems were encountered once the buddy networking began...
Any users which have "buddies" seem to display as per normal, whether they have images in them or not. In other words, they work perfectly once you have at least 1 buddy (infact on mine you could delete the first and only buddy, and the "buddy" albums would continue to display normally... this is why I wondered if it was calling something from the database...)
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You'll probably want to figure out the root of the problem, but for me to resolve it at my end, I'd just want to figure out how to automatically add a buddy to a new user upon registration (this is a feature I would like to see anyway, so it'd kill two birds with one stone until you get a chance to do a patch or let us know how to fix it)
Kind regards
Lachlan