https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1640&p=12224#p12224
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Mighty Gorgon
Sun 15 Apr, 2007 20:36

Re: How To Prevent People From Uploading Pics To A Catagory?
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[quote user="Artie" post="12171"]In your ACP>Photo Album>Categories, choose Edit for the Pics Menu category and you will see several options for cat permissions.
Just set the Upload Level to Admin..... this will block uploads to this cat only, for all regular users. :wink:[/quote]
But I think he is right... if you block a category all the subcats will be locked as well for upload...

I didn't check this now, it is an old bug and I can't remember I've fixed it.