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As a prior user of web gallery who has purchased the buisiness edition of Shozam - I am quite disappointed.  Web Gallery allowed me to add photos / albums easily and quickly in that only modified files were added/uploaded and process took minutes.  With Shozam it now takes hours/overnight.  Unfortunately seems like I have wasted a lot of money to buy what I had expected to be updated/upgraded software.   Please let me know if I am missing something.  Thanks - Colin

Colin, we have just updated the help files to better explain the program behavior related to generate/upload modified files only. You should be able to have a pretty fast generate/upload process if you just add images (with no changes which would affect all other files).

GENERATE MODIFIED FILES ONLY
http://www.helpconsole.com/Shozam/default.aspx?page=5Gallery-General-Option.aspx

Technical Details

• If Album moved up/moved down or Image moved up/moved down, generate every HTML files + Theme folder + Intro flash images.
• If an Image changes (like: rotated, cropped, compressed), generate that Image + Theme folder + Intro flash images.
• If an Image adds/deletes of the Intro Album, generate that Image(s) (if image is added) + HTML files + Theme folder + Intro flash images.
• If any Image changes of the Non-Intro Album then generates Image(s) + HTML files.
• If Global Settings changes like Link, Label, Tag, HTML, Exif, Right click protect & Protect then generate each HTML files.
• If Global Settings changes like Image Compression, Watermark then generates each Images of the gallery.
• If Gallery title or Gallery path changes then generates each & every thing.
• If Theme changes then generates complete Theme folder.
• If previously selected Custom Theme or Embedded Theme not found then generated complete Theme folder.

UPLOAD MODIFIED FILES ONLY
http://www.helpconsole.com/Shozam/default.aspx?page=6Upload-Basic.aspx

To Upload only recent files to the Web server:

• Check this checkbox
• Shozam will compare modified date & time of each file with the date & time for the respective files on the Web server
• Shozam will not upload local files which have the same timestamp (or are older) than the respective files on the Web server
  

Razvan,

One item you mention in the above post was checking the modified files only. This was part of the issue I had when trying to edit a gallery after getting update v1.0.0.12.. If this was checked, and it seems to be by default, then when it came time to create a gallery Shozam crashed to the desktop. With the help of the help desk we worked out the invalid theme and I believe i told them of this issue, I just think everyone should be aware.  

It is a good idea, when encountering an issue, to uncheck "Generate modified files only" and generate the gallery under a different name or at a different location and see if that fixes the issue. This will generate all files in sync and will likely correct issues related to the gallery files getting out of sync. The drawback is that if this is the case and you generate all files for your "active" gallery (rather than creating a separate gallery for this test), then all gallery files will need to be uploaded again to the server. In any case, dealing with the longer upload times may be better than having an issue persist. Think of it as having to reboot your computer when it starts to be a bit unstable; it "resets" everything. We will work on fixing any glitches that appear such as the one you have encountered.