yeah i figured this one out.....but how did i lose 1200 images after a backup...
Maybe you have accidentally ticked the drop option when performing the backup.
There are few other people with admin rights, but we have agreement they I'm the only one adjusting the settings and config.
They might have done this by accident.
Look: there is no way how we could determine what went actually wrong. It looks like you have made a mistake, but there's a possibilty that your site has been hacked (which I doubt though, as a malevolent hacker wouldn't just have deleted some images). Another possible option is that your webhost had issues with the database and restored an older backup that didn't contain the entries of the missing pics. If you need to figure out what went wrong, hire a computer forensics expert to review your server logs etc.
After all, it doesn't matter
what actually went wrong - if the entries in the database are missing, you have to restore them or re-create them. There's little other advice we could give. Don't expect us to cure issues that we haven't caused in the first place - we're open source developers, not magicians nor detectives.
Can someone explain how to use the cpgmassimport plugin ? and not mess up what i have in the gallery right now...
Read the corresponding thread.
Tryed to search for PEBKAC in documentation....nothing.
Not in the documentation - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebkac