We have installed the latest version of ZENPHOTO and it does seem to be working OK except to 1 issue.

When we create a NEW Album it does not save the Album Title data. We can add the data when editing an album but it disappears when you click on APPLY

this also happens for any data in the Album Description field.

Standard question: Any errors in the server or browser log? Any warnings or else running the setup script?

I have this same issue. I refreshed the database.

Error log without deprecated items (did not show anything after trying to update album name):

{4541:Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:54:36 GMT} Zenphoto v1.4.4.3[3b80873e7088f8115211acd7901634eda308ca2d]
NOTICE: Undefined variable: page in /home1/mysitecr/public_html/Venezuela/themes/venezuela2/gallery.php on line 72
require called from include (index.php [13])
from index.php [108]

Versión de Zenphoto 1.4.4.3 [3b80873e70] (Official build)
Puesto actual de ubicación: es_ES.UTF8
WEB path: http://venezuela.mysitecreations.com
Current tema de galería: venezuela2
Versión PHP: 5.3.26:
Soporte grafico: PHP GD library bundled (2.1.0 compatible).
supporting: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp
Límite de memoria de PHP: 128M (Nota: ¡Tu servidor puede estar dándole menos!)
Versión MySQLi: 5.5.32:
Nombre de base de datos: mysitecrznp1
Prefijo de las tablas: zp
Filtro de SPAM: simpleSpam

Sorry, we can't support older release. Please try to upgrade to 1.4.5 or at least the last 1.4.4.x release. Again, we don't release updates for no reason!

I do have 1.4.4.3 but I can try 1.4.5...

After upgrading to 1.4.5, none of my images are recognized within the albums any more... (mp3 items)

You probably need to re-enable the necessary plugins.

As far as I can tell all the plugins are still activated. The folders appear but without any icon. When you click on the albums they are empty.

Errors:

{24473:Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:27:11 GMT} Zenphoto v1.4.5[5cffbe455efd7b3c2579eaaaf8e6fac91dd878c7]
NOTICE: Undefined variable: page in /home1/mysitecr/public_html/Venezuela/themes/venezuela2/gallery.php on line 72
require called from include (index.php [13])
from include (index.php [112])
from index.php [15]
{24473:Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:27:11 GMT}
USER WARNING: printAdminToolbox (called from functions.php line 242) is deprecated This feature is now done by a "theme_body_close" filter. You can remove the function call.You can disable this error message by going to the deprecated-functions plugin options and un-checking printAdminToolbox in the list of functions. in /home1/mysitecr/public_html/Venezuela/zp-core/zp-extensions/deprecated-functions.php on line 86
trigger_error called from deprecated_functions::notify (deprecated-functions.php [86])
from printAdminToolbox (deprecated-functions.php [1295])
from printFooter (functions.php [242])
from require (gallery.php [111])
from include (index.php [13])
from include (index.php [112])
from index.php [15]
{24718:Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:27:13 GMT}
USER WARNING: printAdminToolbox (called from functions.php line 242) is deprecated This feature is now done by a "theme_body_close" filter. You can remove the function call.You can disable this error message by going to the deprecated-functions plugin options and un-checking printAdminToolbox in the list of functions. in /home1/mysitecr/public_html/Venezuela/zp-core/zp-extensions/deprecated-functions.php on line 86
trigger_error called from deprecated_functions::notify (deprecated-functions.php [86])
from printAdminToolbox (deprecated-functions.php [1295])
from printFooter (functions.php [242])
from include (album.php [445])
from include (index.php [112])
from index.php [15]

Now I see the first error is related to your custom theme as is the 2nd (which tells you what to do: remove it). None of these have to do with the backend and not saving of the titles/descriptions. If there is no other error we cannot really help.

Right-- I tried a normal theme and the same problem exists. So I am going to revert back to 1.4.4.3 because apparently there's an issue with 1.4.5

This is no issue we know of or encountered. We would have seen that since our site uses 1.4.5 naturally.

Do you suggest a reinstallation from scratch? One thing I use that you likely don't is the mp3 image files.

Zenphoto supports mp3 but only if the video class and a capable player is enabled. IF you use the flowplayer3 player plugin that is not part of Zenphoto anymore (as announced on the release). You have to use jplayer then.

Enabling jplayer fixed the issue with images not showing up, but of course I still have the album edit issue. Jplayer isn't working for me though (locked muted or something) so I think I prefer flowplayer...

Be sure your caches are cleared. jplayer has been tested on lots of browsers and is either html5 or flash on older. The flow player3 was flash only and I have no intend to update to the new flowplayer5 since that has no mp3 support anymore.

Feel free to use flowplayer3 still but it will not be maintained in the future.

Again, without more info about the album edit issue we can't help.

Yeah, I see the point re jplayer. Cleared cache and still nothing. With no applicable script or php errors I don't know where to go from here either except a total reinstall and migrate everything over.

It should really not be necessary. There must be an error or something, not that much has changed regarding the multimedia stuff.

I've seen album edit issues be permission related before. How are your album folders chmod'ed? Have you had this working before recently?

Backend editiong has not much to do with the actual file/folder permissions since the things like titles are stored in the database. Unless you do renaming/moving/copying of course.

I changed themes again to check the jplayer and the supplied theme works with out-of-box theme so jplayer can be fixed by looking at changes in the theme code.

That just leaves the album naming issue. Album folder permissions are 0755. I have another similar install that works fine with 1.4.4.3. This one used to work until after the server migration/PHP version issues that I was having (got an error saying that PHP version had been changed and needed to rerun setup). I should have mentioned this but it all seemed to work well after that and forgot about it until the need to rename/add folders. There could be something funky messed up during the fix because as I recall I tried to upgrade instead of doing the fix first, which didn't work so I reverted to a backup and completed the fix, then upgraded. However, when I loaded the backup I didn't load the database backup also so not sure if that would have caused the issue or not... lots of variables here, sorry.