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Known bugs

- If you get all your folders named e.g. "Photo Album" chances are you have loaded a skin which left an unnecessary user variable, called 'title'. Remove this from the Settings / Advanced / User Variables list.
- Using guestbook on MyJalbum.net requires setting guestbook folder to 777, processXML.php to 755 with an SFTP client (like WinSCP). Email notification is not allowed on MyJalbum.net.
- Using & character in file or folder name will render the guestbook unusable, because the Flash parameter calling method also uses this character to separate the different parameters.
- Using long filenames which end with numbers might cause difficulties with guestbook on some servers, because they only remember the first (32?) characters of the file name and treat the numbers at the end as version numbers, not as different files, so they might serve the guestbook file from another page.
- Using Opera browser when you reload the page the CSS stylesheet might not picked up. Place the cursor in the address line and press ENTER to reload the page correctly.
- The guestbook email notification's page address might not work if the file or folder name contains some special characters.
- Using Blog Style layout with "Images" type and password-protected folders, you might get broken links to pictures of folder images from nested folders.
- When using folder thumbnails from a folder where you added files one-by-one (=virtual files) (not adding the whole folder at once =real) the folder thumbnail might not appear correctly at the upper directory levels.
- If you generate your album directly into the source folder (possible but not recommended) the guestbook folder will appear in the album incorretly. Add the 'guestbook' word to Settings / Advanced / General / Ignore pattern, or better not generate the album into the image's folder.
- After opening a project the "enabled/disabled" state of some controls remain unchanged — some of them remain disabled (not editable) even though the corresponding checkbox (which would normally enable them) receives the correct value. In this case you need to enable/disable again the checkbox (or select again from the dropdown list) to make those fields editable again. This is not a bug, but a missing functionality in JAlbum, because the skins' User Interface doesn't get notified when a new project is loaded, and cannot setup the enabled/disabled state of the controls, only when it's loaded the first time.
- The same happens with Paypal Select box, which doesn't get filled up when a saved project is loaded again. It shows the select box empty even though the items are loaded correctly. Simply press the add button (+) to fill up the box.
- If you have problems with DigiBug printing service, find C:/Program FIles/JAlbum/includes/printing.inc file, open with Notepad and in the following lines (102, 103)
  <input type="hidden" name="company_id" value="$companyId">
  <input type="hidden" name="event_id" value="$eventId">
  change $copmanyId to ${companyId} and $eventId to ${eventId} . Make sure you have a valid companyId and eventId entered in the corresponding box on the Settings / Chameleon / General tab.
- Erasing album's Title in Edit / Properties cause JAlbum to use an empty string instead of the folder name (which is default if no album name was given). Locate meta.properties file in the source folder, remove "title=" line with a simple text editor, like Notepad and save. (JAlbum bug)
- Some labels on the User Interface on Mac OSX get truncated (with no reason). In this case you can use the help files to see what's there. (Mac OSX bug) The help files are here: Applications / JAlbum / skins / Chameleon / Help / general.html
- When using virtual folders there's no phisically existing source folder. It's not a bug, rather its the new way JAlbum works. This is why you need to place the enhanced image (using "this" option) into the project's folder when using virtual folders. You can open this folder by Tools / Open Directories / Image directory.
- Using JAlbum for a longer time and running multiple Album makes subsequentially can cause the User interface to reset to the first available skin. Use the classic "windows" workaround: close JAlbum and reopen.
- Sometimes when changing skins (e.g. BluePlusPlus) the custom user variables may interfere with each other and for example prevents Chameleon to use the correct gallery name, and also sometimes makes JAlbum itself unstable. Use the "Tools / Clear User Defined Variables" tool or just restart the program to avoid these problems.
- JAlbum sometimes will not process WAV, MP3, WMA, etc. files after changed to BluePlusPlus skin and returned to Chameleon because BPP puts their extensions on the ignore list. Please go to Advanced tab and clear the "Ignore pattern" box: "(bpp\-generated)|((\.|_).*|.*\.(wav|mp3|wma|voc|mid|au|rm))"
- The ColorMap filter problem on Macs has been solved with version 4.0!

For JAlbum related bugs, please visit JAlbum community forums