Meta_data in wp_ngg_pictures scrambled (2.0.66.16)

Since I am on MySQL v. 5.5 I cannot use FORM_BASE64, but I added the BASE64_DECODE function from here: https://wi-fizzle.com/downloads/base64.sql
which helped my being able to extract data from the meta_data column.
It is still strange to me, why it worked in 2.0.66 without any special handling and now in 2.0.66.16 it doesn’t.

I forgot to mention, that I changed the before mentioned function to work with LONGTEXT rather than BLOB as the meta_data column has been defined like that.

@johntheviking – As you have noted the metadata is being stored in base64 … I cannot say why what you were doing with 2.0.66 no longer worked with 2.0.66.16.

– Cais.

@cais – well OK, but anyways I now have it working as I wanted, so I will consider it solved.

@johntheviking – Thanks for the update. Hopefully this will not happen again … if it does, please send us a Bug Report (https://www.nextgen-gallery.com/report-bug/) so we can get it sorted out.

– Cais.