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Apologies for posting this again, as I have seen every post (a lot of them) on this subject, but none make sense or help in the slightest. After 2+ hours I am very frustrated.

I have 2 problems. The inability of a user to have more than one main category. I only have 2 for this particular client - "California" and "Baja". I want the client to be able to add sub categories and images under both main categories. However, I am forced to assign just one to my client so he cannot make new sub categories to the other (from what I see anyway).

The second problem is that I can't upload from the front end, period. I get the error "User folder not defined". I have read all the responses, but they make no sense and have not helped. It doesn't help that so many links within the posts give 404 errors. There is some posting about setting the user folder. Despite reading a number of posts, I have no clue how to do this. In the backend, under each category, there is a field called "Owner Folder" with a browse button beside it (see image below). Is this what's being talked about? I can't make it work anyway - gives me the error "There is no folder".



I like the display of the PG and the back end, but the front end is a nightmare to navigate. I appreciate the fact that it's free and thank you for your hard work, but it needs to work, and work simply. Please help!!!

Hi,

1) there can by only one main category for the user - because of different rights, security, etc. settings.

2) Set the owner folder in the settings, it is the places where the images will be stored on the server, every main category needs a place to save the images on server. If user will create main category in the frontend, the folder will be created automatically - search more in this forum (database vs. filesystem layer)
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... ser-upload

Jan

Thanks for the reply Jan, but it still doesn't work. I finally managed to add the Owner Folder (the little green arrow is very unintuitive). I have confirmed that the Main Category shows this as "Tim". There is a corresponding folder public_html/images/phocagallery/Tim with 0644 permission.

However, neither way of uploading (browsing to the category or using the User Control Panel) works. I still get the "No user folder defined" error.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I am very frustrated and my client is beginning to think I'm an idiot as I can't get this working.

Thanks.

Hi, hmmm, really no idea what can be wrong there

If I give you a temp log in, can you have a try - maybe I'm just missing something really simple? Email me on ian at citruskiwi dot come if you can do this. Thanks.