Some have reported that "solved" these issues by wiping out their galleries and starting over.
which I cant because images are from users
So, it seems that your upgrade was a hasty move if your galleries were important.
this is true, I am angry with myself. for my site also audio is important and audio mdule isn't ready for 6
I you still have the backup of the database before updating you may want to go back and upgrade only to 5.7.
Is this safe and are there instructions for that anywhere on the support pages?
If you don't have phpmyadmin, then that meants running "TRUNCATE TABLE" on all tables containing "cache" in their names. But if you ran update.php after the update then that should have been mostly done.
thanks
meanwhile another issue came up. two modules, poormanscron and simplenews, keep showing up in the modules list with a red button with cross. it says "This version is incompatible with the 6.2 version of Drupal core." yes but i would love to deinstall them and install the new versions but it does not let me. I rm the modules but they keep showing with this red buttons in the error list. how can i get rid of them and get the new versions
Have you uploaded the 6.x versions and run update.php?
yep
best a.