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Thank you Cais. I would like to provide a status update for the sake of complete information on the thread.

Since your login to my site and reworking the new code insertion and my resetting the settings to defaults gallery presentations seem to be stable. Additionally, I made sure that the location of all the galleries is the same, they all point to their respective named folders under:
wp-content/gallery

I am also in the process of recreating all new thumbnails and they are showing properly in their respective posts. It will take a while because I am doing one gallery at a time and I have 400+ galleries. I am about 10% done but will continue to regen all the gallery thumbnails to make sure that they go to the right places and relate to the galleries they belong. It is kind of empirical validation of the integrity of the installation. I wish I could update all the thumbnails of all the galleries at once, but I will finish this in due time.

I have turned off WordFence Falcon engine that offers site speed up in case its caching may contribute to the complexity.

I will monitor the gallery behavior and report any anomaly here again.

I appreciate all the help I have received from the NextGEN team, thank you.

Cemal

I had to reset all the settings to default to bring back the galleries which are important for my site. I really need to find a permanent solution to this, maybe I will organize my galleries totally outside the realm of WordPress. I used to use Slideshowpro, maybe I will revive my license and slowly migrate all my photographs to that. I pain for sure, but, live and learn.

Incidentally, the gallery that was inserted by NG 2.x gallery insert tool still does not display other than an error message. I will keep the error message until I hear from NGG or give up on this solution, whichever comes first.

This is the post with the error messages instead of galleries displaying. What is displaying properly is the old shortcode insertion of the same galleries. Maybe the presence of the new syntax is the source of the problem, who knows?

http://www.keptlight.com/salute-to-viktor-plotnikov/

Cemal

Thank you Cais. I will leave that post the way it is with missing galleries and one shortcode gallery working. I hope they will get a chance to look at it quickly so that I can bring back the gallery display on that page. One of them is very special to me.

Cemal

OK it happened again! There is now additional information, pure luck! One post with three galleries inserted by NGG 2.x lost all three galleries. I edited the post and inserted one of the galleries using the shortcode and it now displays under the error message. Look at the post:
http://www.keptlight.com/salute-to-viktor-plotnikov/

you will see three error messages indicating missing galleries. Under the first error message you will see the gallery thumbnails coming from the shortcode insertion.

The code for the new style insertion is:
<img class=”ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem” src=”http://www.keptlight.com/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id–5359&#8243; alt=”” />

Clearly the “id” is not the same ID used in the shortcode. This must be a new ID numbering system. What seems to be different this time is that only one gallery insertion is broken although I have not checked every single post. And that insertion was done using NGG 2.x tool and its inserted code. I don’t know why other gallery insertions are intact this time but I am grateful for that, for the time being. I also tried using the gallery insertion tool in a post that seems to be working as well. When all of them fail, the insertion tool fails as well.

I hope this unusual break (a lucky break) provides more information to the support team.

Cemal

Tizz, thank you for taking another stab at my problem. Thinking the process you described through, I cannot imagine an existing plugin is causing the problem. Because, they are all active now and everything is working. Disabling them will not gain any additional information for me, or for you.

If as you speculate the problem may be due to a database problem, which is probably a more productive venue to follow, how can I go about detecting the offending piece in the DB? Are there tell-tale signs that may indicate a potential problem? If I send a copy of my DB backup to NG team will that help them to look into it?

I am beginning to realize that being this invested into a technology can be a dead end road for all of us. With over 450 galleries and 5,000+ photographs in the collection I feel that I am trapped in that dead end street with nowhere to go. I truly wish developers of similar software can get together and establish a common storage platform. Other bells and whistles can be added by each developer to make their product more appealing while allowing the user to freely switch from one to the other.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cemal

Better late than never, best of luck to you and to Nextcellent Gallery. I have made my switch back to NextGEN and it is working fine now. By the way, two other questions I posted have been waiting for a response:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/gallery-picker-shows-no-galleries?replies=2

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-something-works-you-stick-with-it?replies=2

I sure hope Nextcellent will be ready for the WP 3.9 roll out which will, according to its notes, will break most plugins that put an icon on the editor toolbar.

Cemal

For the record, I got NextGEN 2.0.61 working by giving it a Heimlich maneuver! I reset all the settings to their defaults and whatever was choking it dislodged and NGG 2.0.61 started working. I am seriously considering going back to NextGEN Gallery, their team was very willing to help me out.

Cemal