RE: existing users upgrading to 3.5

Except after install I am treated as an anonymous and cannot get to the user
page. How do I do that. How do I allow myself to have all access when I am
upgrading. Lacking that, how do I started over? I deleted all but the did
nothing for me.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Panico [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [pixory-beta] 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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