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I am new to all this so go easy on me.

I would like to have an empty folder with multiple subfolders.
I would like the subfolders to show up as categories

Everything is working great, but I see both my categories AND my directories listed as categories. How is this happening?
Did I accidently delete something from the media directory that told phoca gallery not to display these directories. it is kinda weird.

The reason I know it is showing both is that the directories on disk are all lower case and the categories are upper case. on the front page of the photo gallery I see all my upper-case categories and my top level directory, if I go into the top level directory I see all the sub-directories.

Is there a way to rebuild the database or something?

Hi, Phoca Gallery has indepentend file system and database layer, see similar posts in this forum where this is explained and see:

https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... categories
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... ing-images
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... categories

Jan

Thank you for the info, but I had read all of that. I have most of my issues figured out. Basically, the database got corrupted somehow. Creating a new category, pointing my sub-cats to it and then re-naming the orig, and renaming the new fixed the issue of seeing the actual folders on disk.

But I still have one more issue. The top folder (which I would like to be empty) always tries to show an image. For now, I have placed a single image in there so the website doesn't look broken. My question is how can I have the top level category empty and still display all the sub-cats?

thanks,
Mitch

Hi, you can use e.g. Categories view in Category view to display folders at the bottom of the site and the top will only display the subcategories, e.g.:

https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... d-glossary

Jan