Gallery settings defaults changed?

hyachtshyachts Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
edited November 11, 2009 in SmugMug Support
Am I nuts, or did the default selections for gallery settings change recently? Roughly once a month I "publish " a gallery with a selection of photos from all my galleries from the month. I've always just created the gallery when I start moving photos to it (using the "new gallery" option in the move tool) and then, when I was done, changed the category and flipped it from unlisted to public. I've always left the other settings unchanged, but for some reason this last one I had to go back in and set "easy sharing" and "external links" to on. The only reason I realized what had happened was the SimpleMug on Facebook didn't see the new gallery - and when I went looking in the gallery for the Share button for a quick fix it wasn't there.

So anyways, that's a long story for a simple question, but it's frustrating to have this kind of thing change unexpectedly. Now I know what to be aware of, I guess... :rolleyes

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  • hyachtshyachts Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2009
    hyachts wrote:
    Am I nuts, or did the default selections for gallery settings change recently? Roughly once a month I "publish " a gallery with a selection of photos from all my galleries from the month. I've always just created the gallery when I start moving photos to it (using the "new gallery" option in the move tool) and then, when I was done, changed the category and flipped it from unlisted to public. I've always left the other settings unchanged, but for some reason this last one I had to go back in and set "easy sharing" and "external links" to on. The only reason I realized what had happened was the SimpleMug on Facebook didn't see the new gallery - and when I went looking in the gallery for the Share button for a quick fix it wasn't there.

    So anyways, that's a long story for a simple question, but it's frustrating to have this kind of thing change unexpectedly. Now I know what to be aware of, I guess... rolleyes1.gif

    Just noticed that printing and comments were off, and largest size was X3 instead of O - I never used to have to change those... why is all this stuff different? Did I miss an announcement?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2009
    hyachts wrote:
    but it's frustrating to have this kind of thing change unexpectedly. Now I know what to be aware of, I guess... rolleyes1.gif
    Hi, we didn't, wouldn't change your gallery settings, I'm very sorry.
    Andy

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  • hyachtshyachts Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2009
    Not my existing gallery settings, the defaults. I'm saying when I create a new gallery I'm reasonably certain that I didn't previously have to change some of these settings. I think I recall that "easy sharing" and "external linking" were on by default - but they weren't with this last album. Just as a sanity check I went to a gallery from a month ago when I am almost positive I ONLY changed the category and public/unlisted setting, and the settings are as I expect them.

    Note that I started this with "am I nuts?" because I'm not 100% certain about what all the settings were. So you're saying that no changes of any kind have been made to the default "out-of-the-box" gallery settings in recent weeks or months?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2009
    hyachts wrote:
    Not my existing gallery settings, the defaults.
    Oh, sorry! Let me check, they shouldn't have changed.
    Andy

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2009
    hyachts wrote:
    Not my existing gallery settings, the defaults. I'm saying when I create a new gallery I'm reasonably certain that I didn't previously have to change some of these settings. I think I recall that "easy sharing" and "external linking" were on by default - but they weren't with this last album. Just as a sanity check I went to a gallery from a month ago when I am almost positive I ONLY changed the category and public/unlisted setting, and the settings are as I expect them.

    Note that I started this with "am I nuts?" because I'm not 100% certain about what all the settings were. So you're saying that no changes of any kind have been made to the default "out-of-the-box" gallery settings in recent weeks or months?
    Nothing changed on our end... That move to gallery function will pick up settings from the gallery you are moving from....
    Andy

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  • hyachtshyachts Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2009
    Andy wrote:
    Nothing changed on our end... That move to gallery function will pick up settings from the gallery you are moving from....

    Huh - didn't realize that - I assumed they went to SmugMug defaults. Since EyeFi is automatically creating the galleries that I'm moving photos from, maybe something changed there? I'll have to take a closer look... Thanks, Andy.
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