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That we don't answer means we have no idea right now, additionally our chief developer is out of town for a few days.

got this from mu hosting company

Hello and thank you for contacting HostGator support.

We would be happy to help you. You won't be able to access the mysql log files. We do see that you currently have two databases. Additionally, we have reviewed the log files for you but don't see any errors in the log files. Is there an issue you are experiencing with mysql or a database? If you are experiencing an issue, "Would you please let us know?" We would be happy to help in any way we can. If we can be of any further assistance, please let us know. Thank you.

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I would suggest to try a reupload of zp-core to be sure that nothing broke on the ftp transfer. Sometimes that thappens. As said I have no idea about your issue right now.

What you experience is unique. In addition there seems to be no clues. So I fear we are unable to help.

Is it possible to make a change directly in my database ?

I can see all the tables in cpanel.

Do you know what tables and lines I would need to change?

I somehow doubt that this is a mysql issue and the changing anything directly will really help your overall issue. But sadly we did never encounter this.

Do you have cookies really enabled in your browser? If you have any kind of blocker installed, exclude your site from it please.

nothing installed, because when I change the options in admin to random for thumbnails, I do start to see random thumbnails, It's just that I loose all the text on that admin page.

Sorry, I fear we are running out of ideas. I cannot reproduce this behaviour anywhere.

I went into the ALBUMS table via cpanel. All the values in the field named THUMB were set to NULL.

When I changed the value to 0 (zero) on a particular album, that album now has random photos as thumbnails.

I did an export of the ALBUMS table and changed all the values to 0 (zero) in the THUMB field.

Then I imported back into the ALBUMS table overwriting all data.

Now all my albums and sub albums show random thumbnails like I wanted them to.

The question now is how do I make that the default? I guess that is in the OPTIONS table.

any help what field that might be?

UPDATE.....

Looking in the OPTIONS table on line 154 field name "AlbumThumbSelect". The value was set to 1 (which is "Most recent"). That is what my album thumbs were defaulted to.

I changed the value of this field to 0 (zero) for random.

I uploaded another album and subalbum and each time i refresh the webpage the thumbnil changes.

So I am where I wanted to be. Whooooo

Ok, you can do that but it does not solve the actual issue on your server. This is what we need to do, even if we don't have any clue..

I would love to get my hands on a CSV export of the OPTIONS table from someone not having this problem with V1.4.3 to compare.

I bet some fields should be labbeled as null and my database is missing those null's

But if the actual question is still why... I will leave it to my colleague to respond later as he is the actual expert on these things.

I installed a second copy of zenphoto on my server in another directory.
Zenphoto version 1.4.2.4 [10045] (Official Build)

I am able to set all the text fields with no problems on version 1.4.2.4 [10045].

I have this version set for auto update, so I guess I will have to wait for 1.4.3. Once updated I will compare the OPTIONS table of each database (if this database continues to work after the upgrade).

Ok, so at least that works. Why don't you try another 1.4.3 beta install and compare the databases right away?

Set to "auto update" via your host's installer? Note that we frequently get reports about issues with these installers especially regarding upgrades.

i'm unable to do a clean install of 1.4.3. after i put in the mysql info all I get is a white screen.

http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=11231

setup log

[20-Jun-2012 17:19:12] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function db_close() in /home/fdnyfish/public_html/143/zp-core/functions-basic.php on line 1464

HOLD THE PRESSES

I figured out my problem. I am not sure if this is supossed to happen or if it is a bug. Maybe someone else can verify.

In the OPTIONS>GENERAL tab, the only language I had selected was HTTP_Accept_Language

Once I selected America also, everything is working.

I can now set my gallery title and other options without loosing them after hitting apply.

I only had HTTP_Accept_Language selected because I wanted the browser to determine language.

Is this not the case? I don't want any flags on my webpage.