Well, you were doing pretty well until that last sentence of your reply "...you should have done that [check server logs] in the first place." But I guess that is consistent with this board's reputation of being "smart a__ses" and having little courtesy and diplomacy...at least there is consistency!
I found it interesting that there was even lengthy note saying that this board is not hostile/unfriendly. If you have to do that then I suspect you should take those comments as constructive criticism of how this board is managed...must be something wrong if you have to post a defense. The defensive posting:
http://blog.coppermine-gallery.net/2009/01/19/never-argue/I don't care if a product is free or not, if you want and encourage people to use it, then you have a defacto responsibility to treat them with respect and courtesy no matter how inexperienced they may be. If you truly believe that you have no obligation to provide technical support, then why have the board to start with...that's a form of technical support (by users). From another perspective why do you care if a question is asked one time or several? You don't have to reply and make assumptions that the poster hasn't done any homework. If you're bothered by repetitive things, please don't watch TV as you'll see the same commercial over and over. I don't get bothered when someone asks the same question again in a forum. All of us are in different stages of knowledge and when help is needed, do we spend hours and hours researching a problem or post a question to knowledgeable (and hopefully friendly) forum? Sure seems to me that wasting hours researching vs. asking those with more knowledge is a simple and easy choice. Is a forum supposed to be a "learning environment?" You guys could never be real teachers as you would treat all your students as dummies and with arrogance.
Now back to my specific posting...
You don't know what I checked on my server before consulting this board...again, an assumption on your part that I didn't do something as was the first response to my posting. I've used Coppermine in a self-hosting environment for a long, long time without problems and I don't recall seeing anything about it not being recommended but then too a bumblebee isn't supposed to fly either. Your comment about it being "un-pro" was a tacky comment. If my configuration works very well for my family, my friends, and me then why do you care? Being able to self-host Coppermine has lots of advantages.
You'd be surprised at how many emails I've received since my intial posting from others wishing to do the same thing. I would think a group wishing to promote Coppermine would be interested how others have implemented and use it since self-hosting is very easy to do.
As Bill Franklin said in his January 22, 2009 posting: "...Recently I have seen many users criticizing support team (sic) of being rude and un-friendly. The truth is they are right. Coppermine is good software. You are justified in being proud of that. But I will never post on the forum. I may have searched a topic but missed something. I don’t want the abuse."
Sorry I bothered to ask my question to start with. The solution was to change some settings on my new antivirus software. Batch Add is working fine again.