Gallery Settings & Other Options not saving

I had this issue as well trying to update a NextGEN PRO gallery back on 2.0.33 and 1.0.6 (pro). The update UI is so buggy it’s not even worth ranting about…

I was able to work around the issues by deleting the gallery and reinserting it with the settings I wanted.

Thanks @pressuser79. I’m not sure if I misunderstand your suggestion but the problem I am having isn’t with the settings of a gallery. It is with the global Gallery->Gallery Settings and Gallery->Other Options. Everything else seems to save ok.

I tried completely uninstalling NextGEN 2.0.40 in case something got messed up in the settings somewhere. Contrary to what the instructions say it doesn’t uninstall everything. The tables were still in the database and records were still in the options table. I tried to clean everything out but I must have missed something somewhere as after re-installing a couple of the settings I had managed to save before upgrading reappeared.

Unless anyone has a solution I am going to try backing up to 2.0.33 and see what happens there. If all else fails I will head back 1.9.15.

Many Thanks!

I found a workaround for this. I downgraded to 2.0.33 but the problem was still present. I then stumbled across another post (link below) that indicated the problem is with deleting the permalink slug. I had removed the permalink slug so the URLs would be shorter. Looks like I will have to do it via .htaccess.

This is how I resolved the problem:

1. Deactivated NextGEN.
2. via phpMyAdmin renamed ngg_options to ngg_option_bak.
3. Activated NextGEN which created a new ngg_options with the default values.
4. The Options and Settings now save.

There was no response from photocrati on the other thread (3 months ago) so I think I will submit a bug report.
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@zerogravity – Thanks for sharing your trials and tribulations with this issue, it is much appreciated and I will be making an internal note for our own references regarding how this resolved your issue.

– Cais.

Thanks @cais.

I just submitted a bug report. I had this happen on two sites. I tried deactivating all plugins and using a default theme and the problem persisted. I had the issue with both 2.0.33 and 2.0.40. I haven’t tried other versions.

@zerogravity – Thanks for the Bug Report … we can carry on this conversation there.

– Cais.