Will my Photos Be Safe During Reinstalls?

abrogard

I can't log in to my zenphoto site. Forgot the admin password and any other user names/passwords and have lost all records of them days (two, three years ago).

The only thing to do seems to be a reinstall from my reading today.

Will the photo album directories be safe and get incorporated in a new installation or I should copy them off somewhere?

Can it be reinstalled by running some currently existing within that installation on my host machine?

Or what do I do?

acrylian

If you forgot your password/username you don't exactly need to reinstall. A reinstall will again require those credentials. But you need to access the MySQL database of your install directly to reset those. Please see here:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/login-and-password-problems/#forgotten-admin-password
Ask your host how to access the database.

Will the photo album directories be safe and get incorporated in a new installation or I should copy them off somewhere?

If you keep the root albums folder and the database used (although you seem not to have added any manual info) all should be save.
Please see here for installation and upgrade instructions:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/installation-and-upgrading/