Import from folder and Image titles under thumbs in compact album

I have a folder structure on my server I’m slowly importing different images into galleries. Initially that seemed to work well, but although nothing has changed in the environment. Clicking the import button doesn’t display that status of importing any more. Checking though, the images were importing into galleries still. Then I noticed they were corrupted badly pixellated versions of the originals. So I read the forums here and found that putting a line in wp-config.php disabling imagemagick. That solved the corruption issue, but I have to re-import all the ones I’ve previously done.

Question is, why doesn’t that status appear now? I’m hesitant to proceed to import other folders in case I have to do them again.

Also, how difficult is it to just add the title/alt under the thumbnail in compact album view? I read various articles about creating new templates, putting them in a folder under the sites theme folder. Then another saying to put them in the ngg folder in folder ascribed to a view corresponding to the layout of the album. Totally confused and lost over what I should be editing, your main site when you click on the template info link gives a 404 error. Is there a definitive guide? It’s a simple thing just wanting to put a title under a thumb. I did it by altering one of the core files, but I know that will get replaced when there’s an update.

Despite the above, still enjoying the software!