Hello/Hi/Greetings,
I need a little help/advice on how to proceed please...

Right now this is what happens:
If I use Piwigo's administration website to upload my images, they go into this physical directory:

/upload/...
--(dynamically-generated-directory-name)

If I use FTP to upload my images, they go into a different physical directory:

/galleries/...
--(album-name-as-directory-name)

I keep many of my albums private, meaning they are not publically visible. That is easily do-able using Piwigo :-)

My problem is that I have a "private" album in both locations now, and Piwigo shows two albums on its website, both called "private".

Is it possible to somehow merge those two albums?
I mean I would like to have only one top level "private" album, where all my restricted sub-albums go into?

Maybe there is a way to move/migrate the old "private" album into the new "private"? I do not know what should be the best practice. I could stop using the admin website to upload photos, and only use FTP from now on, but what do I do with the existing photo albums which show up in the "wrong" place.

Please advise me how to proceed.

Thanks
-Raj



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