Would need looking into - if there was actually something to look at. As you deleted the file in question that caused issues, there's no real need for the link, as there would be nothing special we could look at. This being said: if the issue you reported happens again, don't delete and re-upload, but reply to this thread instead, doing as I said (posting a link).
It wasn't one specific image that was the problem, the option wouldn't "stick" for
any of the pics in his gallery. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear in my original post.
It's pretty easy to cloak a link from bots and make it available to humans only. Example: coppermine (dash) gallery (dot) net (slash) demo (slash) cpg14x would be a cloaked link to our demo that humans can follow easily, but bots can't.
However, I don't believe in security by obscurity: stuff you put on the web can not be protected by not linking to it.
So are you saying that cloaking a link when posting in this forum is acceptable or not?
You'll need to apply some sort of authentification. For a coppermine-driven family gallery, that's pretty straightforward: give user accounts to your family members, disallow guests to see anything from the gallery except the login page and disallow new registrations. All those things can be done using coppermine's user interface.
Yes, I'm already all protected via config in the way that best suits my needs.
I have little tolerance for playing hide-and-seek.
That is certainly your preference, but
mine is to not have this particular gallery indexed on search engines.
Supporters have asked users to post deep links. Searching the board for that term, googling for it or looking it up in wikipedia would have told you what you need to do. Quote from Wikipedia:
"Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on another website, instead of that website's main or home page. Such links are called deep links."
Then why not just say "post a link to the specific file that is giving you a problem" to avoid confusion?
At any rate - here is the follow up to the problem.
In experimenting with 3 different users this morning I discovered that the problem exists for all of them - "make this my icon" won't stick for any of them no matter what pic in their gallery they choose.
However, there are two ways to get to that box to check.
One is by going to the image view page for the pic you want to use, clicking "edit file information" and checking the option there to "make this my icon".
The other is by going to the album that contains the pic you want to use, clicking "edit files", then scrolling down to the pic you want to use and checking the "make this my icon" box there.
In my case, the former does not work - checking "make this my icon" via "edit file information" does not work - but checking it via the album option to "edit files" DOES work. I will make a note of that somewhere for my Users.
Without insisting I post a link to the gallery or specific pic in inside it, can you tell me if this is normal behavior or not?
Thanks,
C