existing users upgrading to 3.5

A few notes:

You absolutely _should_ back up your Pixory database before upgrading
to 3.5.

The Pixory database is a "hidden" directory named ".pixory" in your
home directory. You should first shutdown the Pixory application
before backing up (copying) the database.



Prior to release 3.5, there were two ways (modes) to share an album in
Pixory. These were controlled in the album editor section entitled
"access". 

The default mode, which had no name, was to share by sending out the
album URL to the people you want to share with. This method employs
"security through obscurity", because each album URL (which is static
over the lifetime of the album) includes a long unique random key.
This key is, for all practical purposes, impossible to guess. Thus,
the only people who can access the album are those you have shared the
URL with. Beyond "security through obscurity", there were no access
control mechanisms prior to 3.5. In 3.4, all "viewers" were anonymous,
that is they never authenticated (logged in), so Pixory never knew who
they were.

The other pre-3.5 sharing mode was "make this album public". All
public albums appeared on the "Public Catalog" page.

In 3.5, even though there are 2 new modes, the default behaviour
should be exactly the same as in 3.4. That is, the default  mode is
"anonymous url", which is the same default as in 3.4 and works the
exact same way. Public albums also work the same way. 

So the bottom line is that if you upgrade to 3.5, your album sharing
settings from the previous release should be preserved and the
application should behave as it did in 3.4 until you change the
sharing settings to one of the new modes.

regards,

joe



 

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