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[crosinski]

I just bridged my gallery (v1.4.12) to an smf forum (v1.1.4) and that worked great but the process resulted in an album being switched to a member it doesn't belong to. Is there a way I can change the owner of an album back to its original owner from the Admin. controls?

Thanks,
Carol

[Nibbler]

No, that's why it's not recommended to bridge an established gallery.

[Joachim Müller]

see "Documentation for cpg1.4.x: Coppermine users, groups and pics uploaded by users are lost when integrating". There is an even better explanation available in the preliminary documentation for cpg1.5.x: Coppermine users, groups and pics uploaded by users are lost when integrating:

Warning: If you already have users and custom groups in your coppermine database when you enable bbs integration, be aware that they will be lost. If your coppermine users have already created private albums and uploaded pics to them, they will be lost as well!

Detailed explanation:
As most community applications, coppermine stores everything that users (including the admin) do (like uploading pics, posting comments, rating files) inside the database. The reference to each user action is being kept using a unique user ID. The correlation between the user actions and the corresponding user profile is being kept by storing the user ID within each record in the database that determines the user action.
When bridging is enabled, coppermine's user management is being dropped in favor of the user management that comes with the application you bridge with. Subsequently, the user IDs from your bridging app (that differ from Coppermine's user IDs) are being taken into account.

Example:
Coppermine-user "Bill" has got the coppermine user ID "3". He used to upload several pics that went into the folder /albums/userpics/10003/. The URL of his personal gallery used to be http://yoursite.tld/your_coppermine_folder/index.php?cat=10003.
In the BBS application, the user "Linus" has got the user ID "3".
After enabling bridging, the URL http://yoursite.tld/your_coppermine_folder/index.php?cat=10003 points to the personal gallery of the user "Linus". All pics that Bill used to upload appear to be owned by Linus.

Summary:
Correlation between the actions that the unbridged coppermine users have performed and the "new" accounts from the app you bridged with is lost. Subsequently, you don't actually loose files that have been uploaded previously, but they appear to have been uploaded by a different user.

Has been asked and answered pretty often already and (as I pointed out) is being covered in the docs. Subsequently: please search before posting in the future.

[crosinski]

Thanks,

Sorry to have bothered you. I did search, but I didn't know what to search for, evidently.