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Thanks Rod. Finally figured out where the lorem ipsum is with your album template explanation.  The page lorem ipsum is in Album Settings which is confusing since it's not in Pages. The confusion is that your Pages are interface pages where as Lightroom's pages are actually Albums and Album Sets.

Thanks for your help.
Charles

OK thanks I didn't see that before - but where in that template is the lorem ipsum?  It's not in Page Content.

The issue is that there is no template for the Album "giraffes" in backlight admin - so I can't edit it. There is one for "Toronto Zoo" but that's my Album Set not the Album "giraffes". And the "Toronto Zoo" template is not the "Toronto Zoo" page, it's the top level page.

OK thanks.  I finally got it working but in a most bizarre way.  I thought I'd start again and delete everything in Publisher and then remove TTG Publisher as well and re-install it to make sure I had the very latest version.  When I clicked on Remove in the Lightroom Publishing Manager it seemed to delete TTG Publisher but then it appeared again, almost as if there were 2 Publishers one on top of the other. Once I tried it again after that it Published my Album Set and Album without any errors.

Weird.

One final question. How can I edit the Lorem Ipsum text on the Album page. I don't see Album pages listed in the admin, only Album Sets.

Thanks
Charles

Just checked again and the "CE4 Publisher" was only in the Publisher Description field, left over from before I guess - it actually is the new TTG Publisher. I did download it and install it a few weeks ago. If I click the Update Albums I get the same error. The Lightroom Publishing Manager lists the TTG Publisher with (not saved) under it even though I've successfully saved the configuration, if that matters.

I have my Backlight installed in a folder called "Photog" - inside that folder there is the "backlight" folders, and a folder called "galleries" and another folder called "photog" which has the "giraffes" generated template in it but no photos. I can see now that the folder named in the publisher is the top level so I could have named a folder galleries and a folder photog when I was trying to get it working.

In Lightroom, I have 4 old Album Sets in the Publisher (from Backlight 1 days) and I have created a new 'Album Set' called 'Zoo' and created 'Album' 'Giraffes' within that.

I'm confused by the term "top level gallery" because the publisher has one field for a "top level galleries directory", but in the Admin page there are options to create multiple Top Level Galleries.  These do not appear to be Album Sets because I don't have an Album Set called Galleries or Photog.

How do I get this to work?  I'm starting again because the old Album Sets are years old and so I don't mind deleting anything or deleting folders on the server but I remember in the past touching folders on the server made everything worse.

Thanks
Charles

Hmm seems the site is already broken... http://whatwant.ca/photog/ - the next set of top level album pages contain a php error.  They contained another set of index pages of years for each of the top level indexes. The ttg-be folder is still there on the root level but I haven't looked at this stuff for quite a long time which is why it's a good idea to do this now.

I'm not too concerned about keeping this site as is. It would be nice to convert it for time, but if I have to republish it I could do that. I might not keep all of it online anyway.

Will I be able to use the old templates in Lightroom that have the content in them? There is currently a template for every year in every category so there are lots of them.

I would like to keep the structure that I have which is:
- top level - photos by category - Kosh, Wildwood etc.
- next level - another index by year
- next level - all the photos and pages for that year

I don't care if I use Pages or Galleries or something else - whatever is the easiest. I don't have a lot of content on the Album pages other than the basic photo info like number and date. But they go back many years so there are hundreds of photos.

This is meant to be a "proofing" platform for people to let me know if they want one of these for posting somewhere or a high resolution copy to use to print. The purpose is not a pretty public website. That's why I put them in a "photog" folder so they aren't easily visible to the world. Whatever is the fastest and easiest system to update each year (Publisher was great for this) is all that matters.

Thanks for your help and advice.

Charles

OK, nearly got it.

I'm doing exactly what you said in the two "Create.." sentences - but initially it didn't work - as you say, I think Publisher wasn't recognizing my Autoindex  for some reason.

Do you mean, don't upload an Autoindex to the "gallery" folder?  I get that part - only upload Autoindex to "templates" and templates to "gallery" - the part about Publisher not seeing it unless I create it in Publisher is still a bit murky.  The Autoindex has to be created in the Web module in order to contain all the formatting I want.

Thanks for your help (as always).