Hello Basilio,
Maybe you could try this.
Having the Admin Tools plugin installed, you display the album where you want to put the photos.
Then, on top oof your screen, in the admin tools top bar, you click on the Add photo link.
Then the web  upload form will open.
You choose the photos from your computer either by exploring your disks or by drag-and-drop. You may do it for several photos at a time.
You launch the upload and when you are done, the photos should be in the chosen album since you started from it.

Thank you for your help. I was out of electricity due to recent russian missile attacks on us, civilians. So, a little delay with the feedback.

Katryne, photos should be there, but they are not there for some reason that I cannot get.

eRack, I've just uploaded a photo to give it one more try. Hopefully it will get into the proper album eventually. Though it's now there yet. I will let you know what happens later. By the way, should I have installed any external packages for the lounge feature to operate correctly?

Updated: the photo is not in the album still (~7 hours since uploading), look like it doesn't work like it`s intended or maybe some misconfiguration from my side. I don't have a clue what's happening.

Last edited by basilio (2024-04-08 09:32:23)

It looks like something wrong is happening with the attribution of the uploaded file. In the batch manager it appears as an orphan in the predefined filter field. But refreshing it adds no file to selection. So it is not orphaned really. And it should not be, as I pointed it to some album when uploading. Meantime, applying the "with no virtual album" filter adds the recently uploaded file to selection. And I can associate or move it to any album. After that, it appears in selected album.

Could it be that attribution for virtual albums for uploading photos is broken somehow? As when syncing ftp uploaded photos work flawlessly.

When I try to upload a photo to the real album through the form, everything remains just the same. Only ftp sync works like expected.
Also, the documentation is very scarce. I could not find how to set up what kind of albums to use, real or virtual. Meantime, both type of albums coexist on my testing Piwigo installation without any issues. Except this problem with uploading photos. The only issue is that the uploading form cannot hold the information about the album until the end of the transaction or is failing to pass it to the right place. And thus I have to explicitly assign those photos to albums one more time in batch manager.

Fwiw, physical folder ("ftp") albums and virtual albums can peacefully coexist, but now that basillo mentioned, you are not trying to web upload a photo and assign it into a physical album, are you? That probably won't work.