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Problem solved.

Here's how I did it.
Reinstalled Aeva - a little tricky as it isn't available anymore but I found tha last version I had installed from my backups
Uninstalled SMF Gallery and deleted all gallery tables from the Db
Reinstalled SMF Gallery
Ran Aeva conversion in SMF Gallery

All now working including thumbnails

Thanks for your help

I understand what you are saying as the folder http://smf-vpf.byethost14.com/gallery/albums is empty.

I think I need to go back to the beginning.
The original site (veraplayafriends.com) that I ma trying to copy from originally had Aeva but I recently installed SMF Gallery and converted the Aeva images. That now works OK and display all of the images in SMF Gallery. However if you open an image then use the browser tools (Chrome, right click, inspect) you can see that the url is of the image is http://www.veraplayafriends.com/gallery/albums/Bahia_de_Vera/Dir_1/main_242.jpeg. Now this is the bit I can't understand because that folder http://www.veraplayafriends.com/gallery/albums is also empty so how is the image working?

There is a folder from Aeva /mgal_data/albums that does contain sub-folders like /mgal_data/albums/Bahia_de_Vera/Dir_1/ and those folders do contain the images but not woth names like main_242.jpeg but in the format like 783_C9CD2624-751B-4574-928E-B3B2FB3B774B_jpeg336972b68de10a97d1b6c99250a65f7d_extjpeg.

So how is the correct image being displayed on the original site? and what did the SMF Gallery do to those images when I ran the conversion?

AS for GD I will need to contact my hosting support, but it is not as important as being able to display the main images.

I am running a test setup on my laptop using xampp . I am trying to to get everything running and ironing out the wrinkles before I do a live move. So unfortunately I don't have a publicly accessible link for you

I'm moving my SMF to a new host.

I've converted from Aeva and all worked fine. Then I copied the Gallery Folder and and all tables in the Db with gallery in the name to my new host but I can't see any of the images previously in the gallery.

It is reporting the correct number of images and if I open the Member Galleries I can see all of the image details but when I click on any of them the actual image is not shown.

Hoping someone can help.