I have tried and tried and read and watched videos and I still CAN NOT get gallery to work. I had it working a month or so ago, then got busy, set aside website and now back to it and so wanted to make changes. Deleted original galleries and planned to install new ones.
Go through all the directions over and over again and still it will not load. Then I find if I try to go back and open a gallery I made – it’s not saved so I have to start all over agin. I have now done this several times and am getting rather bored with redoing it. I save it, upload it – it shows DDF WWW SEP B&A NEW_files, DDF WWW SEP B&A NEW.html, DDF WWW SEP B&A NEW.swf, and DDF WWW SEP B&A NEW.xml but I can never re-open gallery.
When I try to I get the message “a semi colon character was expected. Line: 22 overclick=”DDF WWW SEP B&A_files/” “
I have searched in the forums and whatever and see many times where people have had problems but nowhere do I see a solution. Below one example but doesn’t all make sense to someone like myself who is not a “web” person. I’m fairly good with a computer but not this stuff!
“CoffeeCup Support Knowledge Base - Why Aren't My Images Showing Up?
We have found that the most common cause for this issue is that the user has not uploaded the images folder. The program uploads this folder automatically if the built-in FTP client is used, but if you use an external FTP program, you must make sure you manually upload the images folder.
Also, make sure the images folder is uploaded to the same folder on the server as the one containing the Photo Gallery HTML file, or the SWF file will not be able to locate the images.
If you normally upload to a folder on your site called public_html, web, www, etc. the files go inside this folder. For users of Visual Site Designer, you need to add the folder "My_Homepage_Files" in addition to any previous folders to display the player on any page besides the home page. This means that some Visual Site Designer users will be uploading to the Initial Host Folder "public_html/My_Homepage_Files".”
One video saves to desktop – can you not save everything to a file in My Documents?
Another video says - Archived Version 5.9.4: Uploading Photo Gallery to VSD - Save in VSD or vnu folder – don’t need to worry about upload dialogue box as you have already saved them to your vnu folder so close upload box – open VSD – use flash to install
Seems gallery did save when it saved to My Themes but I don’t want them saved there. Don’t know if that would still work or not. If I can save the gallery then I can maybe get it to show up in my website but right now I am VERY FRUSTRATED!!!
Don’t know if better or makes a difference between Software Forums or Get Support but desperate so posting on both! Apologies if this cause any confusion. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Deborah

Windows XP
Photo Gallery 5.9.4
VSD 6.0

Okay, so after writing my previous post I decided that even though I felt just too tired to try I couldn’t stop myself – so after seeing in my own writing that the gallery was saved if I saved it in “My Themes” I tried again and saved it there and low and behold – it works! Do exactly the same process as I did many times before and it works and loads into VSD and I can reopen it from My Themes in Photo Gallery. Does this make any sense to anyone?

Thanks,

Slightly less frustrated but still confused!

Deborah

WOW are those instructions confusing!!!!!!!

Hi DDF,
If you open Photo Gallery and choose an already made theme or one that is on your hard drive because you hadn't placed any themes in the "My Themes" folder yet, once you make your Gallery you cn save this anywhere you like. I made a folder in "My Documents" called "My Galleries" and save there. When I add any of these Galleries to VSD, I make sure I use the Flash Tool because this will let VSD add all the nesseary files needed to view and upload. Now this is just my way of doing this. Gallery makes a folder which holds all your images outside that folder should be the swf, html, xml -these must all be together on your server to work, or use the flash tool to handle it.
No need to make a folder on your server or website.

With whom are you hosting with?
I would also give them a smaller name without spaces like DDFnew or something

Posting with Lunar Pages, and it did work once upon a time but now when I save gallery anywhere other than My Themes it wont save and it wont work in VSD. Very weird. I get all the necessary files when I save to a new folder , it just will not work!

Thanks though, easier to just keep them as themes I guess!

Seems to me DDF you can save your Gallery project anywhere you choose, really, but go with what works for you