I notice when new albums are uploaded (ftp), the status defaults to published. This should be reversed so when the Gallery is 'live', the admin can work on new albums without them being viewable. Then when ready, set to publish via the Admin setting.

We have enough problems on this forum with people not seeing their albums/images because they are accidentally not published. Why would we make this worse by deliberatly making them unpublished?

Perhaps the admin upload page should allow just the creation of the album. Until that is available (no promises) it is a simple matter to FTP the empty folder and go to admin to mark it not published. Little chance of anyone seeing it in the mean time and if they do, there is nothing there.

Okay, here's a possible compromise: "Publish All" or "Unpublish All" buttons Saves having to do them one-by-one and refresh inbetween each.

Hi,
I'm sorry but I agree with macalter that the value should be in the options and should not be by default "published". Looking at the problem for a different angle, the option can be called share/do not share. I could be using the server as a remote backup of my pictures and might not want to "share" all my pictures.
if there is a problem with published/unpublished albums perhaps zenphoto should make the two states more clear to users rather than making everything published by default.

Sorry, but we are not going to change the default for the reasons stated above.

What is so hard about setting an album to not published before uploading to it? You can do that when you upload the first image using the admin upload. If an album is not published, nothing in it is visible.

macalter: how many albums are you creating at a time before publishing them? Or maybe you are marking each image unpublished? That is unnecessary as not publishing the album hides all images.

I have 1 published album currently. All others are desired as unpublished because I am doing all the restoration of everything (all lost). I do not use ZP to upload. I upload exclusively via FTP which I find a lot faster. I still have albums to upload, will try the creation folder in ZP first and then set unpublished.

If you refuse to procede as we suggest, we can't help you with your problem.

Again: First create the albums with the admin interface and mark them unpublished. (You will have to upload one image to do this unless you use last night's build.) Then FTP your content.