Quota caused Gallery corruption on Raq3 (solution)

Hi, on my Raq 3 I had set a quota of 500mb. But the Raq for some reason thought the quota was 300mb and when uploading photos they hit the limit. I didn't notice anything until this morning, after the server had restarted as it usually does. I was missing half my photos :eek:

With help from the mailing list I figured out that the best thing to do is:
Log in to Gallery. It displays a warning (thanks!) saying which albums are causing problems.

Move these albums out of the /albums directory into another one.

Go through each 'album' directory, and rm *.sized.jpg, *.thumb.jpg, *.tmp, *.highlight.jpg

For each album, in Gallery: Create a new album, Add Photos, Use the URL to give the local path to one of the albums you've cleaned up on your system. Let it add all the photos back.

You'll lose any comments and photo rotations etc, but I think this will solve most people's problems. Thought I'd let you know :grin: