Hey @ColtMann can you check your album links and let me know if they're valid?  

For example: https://www.adonismale.com/gallery/album/20203-hyde-gunnar/

um, do you suppose that was an album in my club, which has been deleted and replaced with a file in your club? I thought that I was supposed to not have COLT models . . . pls hlp - I cornfused . . .

https://www.adonismale.com/files/file/20553-hyde-gunnar/

@ColtMann and @JoelR : Except for the link to the Tom of Finland download file, none of the links above works, including the albums for Tab Hunter, who definitely wasn't a Colt model (alas 😟), and Chase Hunter (both the main album file's link and the zip file).  Hunter may have done some work for Colt -- he was definitely their type -- but his main œuvre was for other studios, including Falcon/HotHouse/RagingStallion.  

This daily message is from last August.  I don't know what Colt's process is when he posts a revision of an old file as he re-cycles through the alphabet.  Is the older album deleted and a revised one then uploaded anew?  Or are images just added and/or deleted from the existing album in situ?  If it's the former, that would explain why the links above don't work now, because that album was deleted and its replacement is in a different location.

Over time, I've noticed that comments I'd made earlier on either an album itself or on individual images within the album, as well as any stiffies I'd given, are missing when the revised album is featured once again in a daily message.  That seems to imply that the old album was completely deleted, and a revised set of images was uploaded as a "new album."

@JoelR : On a related note, in cases like this, where the album is either missing or has been moved to a new location, the system's error message is shown below.  It's completely misleading, and even meaningless, since I'm already a member and I'm logged on.  Joining AM is irrelevant.  This error message should be changed.

1 hour ago, ColtMann said:

um, do you suppose that was an album in my club, which has been deleted and replaced with a file in your club? I thought that I was supposed to not have COLT models . . . pls hlp - I cornfused . . .

https://www.adonismale.com/files/file/20553-hyde-gunnar/

 

Yes, that's probably exactly what happened after further investigation.  You originally posted an album in your club, and then replaced it with a file because of the studio.  

3 minutes ago, JackFTwist said:

On a related note, in cases like this, where the album is either missing or has been moved to a new location, the system's error message is shown below.  It's completely misleading, and even meaningless, since I'm already a member and I'm logged on.  Joining AM is irrelevant.  This error message should be changed.

I'm aware of the error message as a long-standing issue with the software.  The problem is that the software displays one generic error message for EVERYTHING, so I'm forced to use a message that covers the most common set of error(s).  Otherwise, I would have long-ago tweaked and customized the error messages as appropriate for individual circumstances.     

3 minutes ago, JoelR said:

I'm aware of the error message as a long-standing issue with the software.

Thanks.  I thought it might be something you couldn't control and should've mentioned that in my post.  I apologize for the omission.

memo to all: please be aware that computerized error messages are not reliable. the people who make so much more money than I, never consider the end user. or the end user's end 🤣

28 minutes ago, ColtMann said:

the people who make so much more money than I, never consider the end user.

I don't completely agree.  They often seem to make it as complicated, confusing, counter-intuitive, arbitrary, capricious, and downright difficult for the end user as possible!  😡

you forgot different - they always want something to be new and different. it's hard on old folks!