Here is the situation: I had a coppermine gallery 1.4.20 bridged with SMF 2.0 RC3 on host1. Recently I had to change to host2. I made a backup of the database. I then upped the database in the new host. Then I installed phpBB3, converted from the old SMF and all that is working. Then I uploaded albums directory from host1 to host2. Then I uploaded the latest stable 1.4 package. I then changed config.inc.php.sample to reflect new database settings and removoed .sample. I then realised my bridge would be broken, also I couldn't access the gallery simply because of the broken bridge.
I then went into the database and in bridge table I changed 'short_name' from smf to coppermine (as I found that file in bridge directory and after looking in init.inc.php how the bridging file was initiated). I tried again and coppermine was running fine standalone on new host.
I tried some stuff and the album seems to be fully functional (albeit stanadlone but I figured I'd fix the bridging after upgrade to 1.5), so I started the upgrade. I uploaded all 1.5 files but kept albums directory and include/config.inc.php.
Now, when I go to the update.php page I get this error:
Coppermine critical error:
The group table does not contain the Anonymous group !
And that's where I am right now. I tried using the 'old' files from the 'old' host for coppermine but that gave the same error. I tried looking in the source files for the above error statement and where it was invoked but it are too many files. I also tried to run the update sql straight into phpmyadmin but that gave me errors which probably weren't show-stopping but on error, phpmyadmin stopped the sql so that didn't work.
So I tried installing again as clean as possible and ask for help.
Note: I only have the backup files (data/database) from the old host. It's not online anymore.
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