I guess I'll just have to unstick the thread :( since most of the pics are gone and it doesn't look like they will be back any time soon :(

No Slip , no don't do it, that was a whole winters entertainment!
Maybe by next Janurary there will be more Band-With to keep us going again.:huh:

Bandwidth
 

I have a unix box sitting on my broadband connection.
I can host some of these more permanent like if you want.

Also, some of the pics can for sure be scaled down either in resolution or size or both without too much loss in on-screen quality.

last option (but my favorite) I know someone starting out a webhosting company. Some of the folks with a lot to post could contact him and rent some cheap space there to offload the bandwidth cost here.

PM me for info as I think the owner of this board offers commercial hosting too. PM him too :)

I don't think it is a bandwidth problem :(
just a matter of moving the pics from the old server

John is a busy guy

I miss this thread. :(

Me too. Hey John hows 'bout it. I got smore shtuff!!!!!:rtfm: :bounce:

:happy: Ya,now we're talkin!:happy:

ya know what? I'd like to take the time to remove posts in this thread that are like this conversation and leave all pertinent posts and the pictures of course. But that can't happen till the pics are put back :(:(:(

Come on John, give us a few moments of your time PLEASE! :happy:

Sure hope you've insured that collection of yours Steve...

NICE STUFF!

Sure hope you've insured that collection of yours Steve...

NICE STUFF!

no pics dump this thred

tell me about it :(

Really, this is agonizing. I have all my pluggage stored now. Nothing hanging except whats in display cases. John, any hope? If not please disconnect the life support. It's time to let this one die a peacefull death.

:( :( :( :(

shoot.... got unstickied, guess that means it's in the crapper... might as well flush it, instead of lettin it linger, that way sometime when I'm doing a search, I won't see it again, and get all bummed out all over again.....

I protest this great loss of photos with a BUMP

I hear taps playing......................:crying:

:(

John, if there is any chance to resecitate this thread, please do add the pictures back if you can find the time :(

or atleast let us all know that it is not possible or something.

thanks

John---I think there are other people on this site who could put the pictures back if you could send them the downloads or whatever(I'm a computer idiot).
This was probably the best posting ever on this(or any other site). It would be a crying shame to let it disappear.
You probably don't have the time and we all understand that, but please dish it off to someone else rather than let it go.
Thanks for listening.:(

:smash:

:)

:) .

The nickel version of what happened is this - before I moved to the new server back in April, the site kept crashing as I would run out of memory exporting the databse. Which was HUGE because of the 3 years of pictures in it. I had to kill the attachments database inorder just to export the threads and get them onto the much more powerful server we run on now. The problem has been getting those pictures back into the new DB without trashing the pictures added since. I've worked on this before and it has been the cause of some downtime - including todays...

So I'm REALLY trying guys and gals and Flaptails!

dude. you done good.
Since you actually have the datafiles, maybe just putting the pics up in gallery or something and asking the members to re-ID them for you would work better?

I've been trying to get them back to where they are supoposed to be. The problem is that when I import them back into the MySQL Attachments table it winds up bouncing the ones that occured later. So I can somewhat easily get the pics back but then I trash the attachments that were uploaded after the fact...

How good are you with MySQL?



Now, the important part - AT LEAST FOR VIEWING ONLY, I have retrieved the Some Plugs thread. Hopefully I will be able to completely ressurect it as part of the main boards...

http://www.striped-bass.com/VB229/sh...threadid=13081

I've been trying to get them back to where they are supoposed to be. The problem is that when I import them back into the MySQL Attachments table it winds up bouncing the ones that occured later. So I can somewhat easily get the pics back but then I trash the attachments that were uploaded after the fact...

How good are you with MySQL?



Now, the important part - AT LEAST FOR VIEWING ONLY, I have retrieved the Some Plugs thread. Hopefully I will be able to completely ressurect it as part of the main boards...

http://www.striped-bass.com/VB229/sh...threadid=13081

THERE IS A GOD!

thank You

very little db experience I'm afraid..
(I have a friend that I rely on for db help)


A bunch of linked pics, I thought they are from Capesams but I cant tell for certain, ask for a username/password for "Wbetsy"

I got that also when the pages come up with capesams pics. His pics are gone now I believe since he linked them himself to a host.

I was seeing the pictures this am but not seeing them anymore???:confused: Is it just me?:confused:

Its you blabber mouth. :D

I see them:eyes:

Why don't I see them.....:confused:

because if you bothered to read what John said, then you would realize that the pics are not on this thread here on this forum, you have to click the link he provided:rolleyes:
I know it's easy to confuse you but try to pay attention Larry :D

Confusion came from the fact that I was looking at them yesterday through this forum!:huh: