I'm sorry, it's about time for me to have another hiccough. I've been updating my web site on a regular basis recently - new images every few days. This afternoon I added a .PNG file to go with a video - this is about the 70th to go on the site and it's normally fine. I haven't done one of these for a few months though. I'm using the Turtle skin and after making the album, I try smart upload, but the album size just goes round and round and then I get a warning about overwrite protection and I need to upload to an empty folder. I'm using an older version of jAlbum 12.7.2 - I never can tell if I should upgrade or not. If it helps, then my web site is http://www.elements.uk.com/ . I have tried searching the forum, but I find it hard to understand a lot of the threads. I've said before, I'm a photographer, not a web site expert. Many thanks in advance

It now looks as though it did upload on an earlier attempt, even though it gave me a different error message. Is this latest error message about overwrite protect simply because there isn't anything new to upload?

Edited by: Zooey on 20-Jul-2016 18:54

See http://jalbum.net/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=48784

In your old post: it was suggested that you put your jAlbum generated albums in a subfolder of 'public.html'. That might stop the error messages. Is it something you would consider trying?

The jAlbum team are on holiday, jGromit (forum volunteer) who responded before is also on holiday, so getting replies might take a bit longer than usual.

I deleted the file, tried another upload and still get the same error. I no longer have the manifest file, zero size or not. I asked my husband about moving the web site into a sub folder of public_html, but he said the web site would no longer work on elements.uk.com, but instead would have /web_site at the end. I didn't really want this and I've had no problems since my earlier post.

I'm still confused. If I DID create a sub folder for the web site, then surely the same thing would happen? The uploading would want to overwrite files, which doesn't seem possible any more...

Just upgraded to jAlbum 13.3 and the problem hasn't gone away

Edited by: Zooey on 21-Jul-2016 21:55

As of now, 21:52 UK time, for http://www.elements.uk.com I am seeing a list of files:

Back up images for desktop/ 
Back up movies/ 
Back up photographs/ 
Home/ 
Katzenworld/ 
PF sig.jpg
ShutterNutters/ 
architecture/ 
holi/ 
landscapes/ 
nature/ 
trips/ 

Your album is at http://www.elements.uk.com/Home/
It doesn't have the manifest.jfm file, it should if you used jAlbum to upload your album to the subfolder 'Home'. Are you getting any error messages, a small yellow warning triangle at the bottom right to jAlbum's window, or in the system console (F7)?

Moving the album to a subfolder leaves two options, a landing splash page at http://www.elements.uk.com/index.html or a redirect to your Home folder - http://www.elements.uk.com/Home/index.html.
A redirect page was shown in one of the posts above, but if you want help on making one post back.

The reason why a warning was given when uploading to the root level (public_html) was to make sure that is what users really wanted to do. Many jAlbum users already have a website and just want to include an album, uploading to the root would overwrite their existing website.

Resolving what is happening might need someone from jAlbum getting FTP access to your site, so they can see exactly what is happening. If you are happy to do that David or someone else from jAlbum will post back here.

OK - you caught me mid-change. I deleted the old site and created a sub-folder under public_html called Home. The web site now works fine and I shouldn't have to bother you again (for a while)... BUT.

My favicon doesn't work anymore. Hubby is better at these things than I am. We tried moving it from Home up to public_html, but it doesn't like either.

I just wanted to thank everyone. You wouldn't believe it, but my first couple of web sites were built by hand by myself. I knew nothing about code of course. Hubby started me off and I just carried on by trial and error. I never did get the proper way of doing things though and I'm easily confused.

I've put the web site in a folder, which tidies everything up nicely and since upgrading to jAlbum 13.3, I don't expect any more problems for a while. I've done a redirect page - I just needed to understand the purpose and now I do. I've fixed the favicon too