Everything gone back to installer page

Please forgive the WoT, I just want to give as much info as I can. I was using Gallery 3 beta 3 for about 3 or 4 weeks now for my wedding pictures, trying to get a feel for it before I went live for family and friends. I had one issue which lead into another, and I'm not sure if it's all related to the large file sizes, so I'll put both here and you helpful people can tell me which problems are separate and if I should make tickets.

How I set my albums up (might be relevant)
Basically I have one friend who had about 1000 pictures that he uploaded to test things with. The goal was to see if it could handle the upload, if it could handle the picture sizes, if it could move pictures and then rotate them. It looks like each picture was around 2.5mb, which I assumed was ok since gallery resizes them (I think). The upload went fine after one try stalled. After they were uploaded, they were all in one album. I created 4 sub-albums and began to move the pictures from the main album into the other album.

Issue 1: Subsequent picture moves cause selection errors
If I didn't close the window out, the next time I tried to select anything it would select EVERYTHING from the first picture up to where I clicked, even if that's not what I was trying to do. Thus what I had to do was when I moved files, I would have to close out the move window, wait (I assume for the server to complete the file moves), and then reopen it for the next move.

Issue 2: can't move as many pictures as you can select
The next issue was that even though I could select a potentially limitless number of pictures to move only around 10-20 pictures would be moved. (very nice tiny pictures appearing when you drag, btw.)

Issue 3: moving pictures caused pictures to disappear
After spending a good hour or three working on getting files moved into proper albums, I started seeing pictures coming up with the broken file image in both thumbnail and resized and full sized versions. The pictures seemed to have a placeholder, the album was there and the pictures were there, but the files that they were associated to were gone completely. I searched the gallery3 directory on my fileserver and found an empty folder where the files should've been.

Issue 4: everything deleted
I got my friend to send me all 2.5 GB of his pictures so that I could try them myself. I rotated them and put them into albums prior to uploading, thinking that not doing that via the web interface might help. I log in as admin, I try deleting the previous album. I get the pop up window and click 'Delete' and nothing happens. I try a few more times after a minute or so, but get the feeling that it's not working since I was using Chrome. I close Chrome, log in with Firefox, and the same issue happens. Since I had to leave for work in 5 minutes, I closed firefox, reopened it and logged in, and just created a new album with a new name and decided to upload the files there to mess with later. I get to the window about uploading, but in my haste dragged the folders into the browser rather than clicking browse. After I realized my mistake, I tried going back to my album to retry the upload, but now I just see the 'Welcome to your installer' page: hxxp://wedpics.terradin.com/gallery3/

I searched the fileserver, and now I can't find ANY of the pictures I had uploaded in the two other test albums I had up that had been working fine. The couple extra modules I added (download full size and a few others, I think) are still there, but I can't find anything else I added. I should mention my var folder is completely empty, too.

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Those are the main issues I've had. I'm not sure if it's due to the file sizes/quantity, but as of right now I'm not sure if I should re-install the gallery with the page I have there, or if I should delete everything and do a fresh upload of the installer, or if I should use one of the experimental installs. Any help would be awesome.

Forgive the repetitive nature but I don't have a list of the defaults so I don't remember all of them. Right now I have akismet, comment, digibug, downloadfullsize, exif, forge, g2_import, gallery, image_block, info, notification, organize, recaptcha, rss, search, server_add, slideshow, tag, tagfaces, user and watermark. I'm almost 100% sure that recaptcha, tagfaces, and watermark were disabled, and download full size was enabled. Other than that, I think everything was default.

I'll try doing a fresh install soon and then I'll link it. Thanks nivekiam.

Edit: Ok, I've gotten the experimental up at hxxp://wedpics.terradin.com/gallery-gallery3-b2d0b3e/index.php/ . I'll try doing some reuploading when I get home. Until then, let me ask you this - If I find this is working out well, if I just reinstall this to a clean directory and migrate the var folder, would that allow me to move the gallery's url, or should I just start fresh and reinstall when I'm ready?

Oh. That's basically exactly what I was asking. Sorry, busy day at the office, I get confused easily. Thanks again nivekiam.

Looks like one attachment per post, I guess. errorlog.txt below

I was only able to upload DSC_0391.JPG; the next file in the folder was DSC_0392.JPG and that failed. The first time I tried it I used a different folder/album and was able to upload DSC_0133, but nothing after that. These images range between 1 and 2.5 MB each. Thought I mentioned that before, my bad. The whole point is to enable people to upload full resolution pictures from my wedding so that I can grab the full res pics while other people can view sized-down versions of the files in the gallery. These are likely the largest files I'll be seeing (unless there are any videos) but I was able to upload all of them the first time before things started to disappear.

Nope, when I tried that I got the same bad file image error. I can try again when I get home if you'd like. I'll also try adding some smaller pictures if I get the chance.

Ok, I got home and tried adding the 392 file to the subalbum 'Ceremony' which already had 391 in it, to no avail. Same Bad Image File error. However, when I went up a level and tried adding it to the main album 'Simon's Pictures' it worked fine. But, when I then tried adding the next photo, 393, once again I got the bad image file error. You can find the 392 file here: http://wedpics.terradin.com/gallery-gallery3-b2d0b3e/var/albums/Ceremony/Pre-Wedding%20Week/Reception/Serenade/DSC_0392.JPG

Looks like I can't post more than one picture per album, for now. You can see the gallery here: http://wedpics.terradin.com/gallery-gallery3-b2d0b3e/ . Floridave and nivekiam, I PMed you an admin access account detail to the forums if you want to try things out. Let me know what else you want me to do.

Breadcrumb counts... this jargon is a bit out of my ballpark. I'd be more than happy to help you guys diagnose it any way I can, in the end it was probably just something I screwed up. I'm not very good with making internets anyways. What I'll do in the meantime is set up a new DB and do a fresh install; should I install an experimental or G3b3? I'll try to figure out how to get you guys shell access and go from there. Thanks for all your help.

I got your PM and logged in. You don't have the rescue module available. Click that link and follow the instructions for getting and installing the Rescue module as well as running it:
ttp://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:rescue

Or just scratch that install all together and start fresh with the current experimental code. I wouldn't even bother with B3 anymore.
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