Saving the old material...
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 7:44 pm
Hello all, as most of you know it has been a hard few weeks for the VBD forum.. I am sure Nick has had tons of things to do and has really kept it together with lots of hard work and a terrible situation.. I for one think he handled it very well and made the right choice... Now let's all try and help out somehow cause it is a huge task for him and the admins... On my part I tried saving some of the old stuff and would like to start with the old casting show from the old (2nd site).. I don't know how much this will work cause I have had trouble saving some of the picture links. It had to be done one at a time in the right order and right page number etc.. . So if a link has no picture that means it was lost and could not be retrieved. Most I was able to save, however unfortunately some members lost all their pictures such as nearlymint.. The funny thing about his picture links is that they opened but gave completely wrong pictures.. Most of the time I would get pictures of an RW display case! Another member sadly is motorman, all his picture links gave "This page can not be displayed"... So please be patient as I try to get those pages back up.. It takes a huge amount of time to fix all those links...
There are three types of pictures to work on.. First the ones that have a hyper link connecting it to an online storage site such as photobucket .. These have to be rerouted and pasted in here.. The 2nd type are the ones that have been uploaded and still had an unbroken link on lefora, these have to be downloaded from the saved page by opening the thread in a program like MS word or other, saving them on my computer then uploading them as an attachment at the exact place in the reproduced thread here.. The third type are the pictures that were displayed only by hyper links on Lefora.. These have to be downloaded directly from Lefora and then uploaded here again at the correct place...It takes a lot of stitching work!.. Too many broken links that have to be patched up to keep the integrity of the text and pictures connecting the words. One by one.... but I reckon I can manage one or two pages a day.
PS: PLEASE VERY IMPORTANT!
Please do not remove or change the locations of your images from storage sites like Photobucket etc... Thinking oh well now that all has been saved I might as well save space and delete or remove them.. The reason for this is that in most situations I have tried keeping and using the storage site hyper links and have not physically saved them... (I had to save them for a few members only)... So if you move, delete or change the location of your pictures there will just be a lot of dead links..
Thanks!
Cheers
There are three types of pictures to work on.. First the ones that have a hyper link connecting it to an online storage site such as photobucket .. These have to be rerouted and pasted in here.. The 2nd type are the ones that have been uploaded and still had an unbroken link on lefora, these have to be downloaded from the saved page by opening the thread in a program like MS word or other, saving them on my computer then uploading them as an attachment at the exact place in the reproduced thread here.. The third type are the pictures that were displayed only by hyper links on Lefora.. These have to be downloaded directly from Lefora and then uploaded here again at the correct place...It takes a lot of stitching work!.. Too many broken links that have to be patched up to keep the integrity of the text and pictures connecting the words. One by one.... but I reckon I can manage one or two pages a day.
PS: PLEASE VERY IMPORTANT!
Please do not remove or change the locations of your images from storage sites like Photobucket etc... Thinking oh well now that all has been saved I might as well save space and delete or remove them.. The reason for this is that in most situations I have tried keeping and using the storage site hyper links and have not physically saved them... (I had to save them for a few members only)... So if you move, delete or change the location of your pictures there will just be a lot of dead links..
Thanks!
Cheers