It is a mess. It's a mess because Boonex is mistakenly trying to keep all the shared media intact while introducing member albums and privacy controls. Shared media has to go.. period. It's the only way the whole privacy concept is going to gel. It should be a fairly easy matter to convert all existing shared photos and media on existing sites to an album system. All of the ownership info for the pool of images in the 6.1.4 sharingImages directory is stored in a database table, so it should see more be fairly easy to write an upgrade script to rearrange al of those photos into new directories that belong to individual members..... POOF!..... no more shared inages.