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Ickie

Ickie

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We have worked for 24 hours and cannot get the attachments to work, all 25,000 of them, we moved them in binary, added them to the data base, you name it we did it but they still refuse to work.

I am at witts end and plan on doing a DUMP and starting over, this cannot be reversed, once flushed they are gone.

What do you think?

I am not spending another day on this, attachments have always been a pain moving and getting to work again, remember the last time it took weeks to get them to work, I do not have enough hair to waste on this.
 
Hi Ickie,
IMHO most attachments are like yesterdays newspaper. If there are important ones, those can be added again. Most of us have the important ones saved. So not porting these over is no big deal. :mixedsmi:

Dump "em. :pop4:

Dave
 
Looks like this would be the price to pay for the server migration, besides more grey hair and sleepless nights, as far as you're concerned...

This of course would be quite a huge loss, but if there's no other solution, we'll have to bite the bullet, or - like a german saying goes - we'll have to swallow the toad. (You might want to choose the less painful variant).
 
Start from zero! If there is a post with an attachment that someone wants to see then let that guy ask the poster to re-attach it to the new forums.
 
Well, the new forum is up.
If someone else wants to take their time (read: life) to . . . .

I feel it is a job well done as is.
You deserve a big round from us all.
There comes a time to say -- enough.
 
Don't know if this a clue or not, but yesterday I could not upload an avatar photo either. It said the photo was a invalid file. Today it works with the same photo, so you fixed part of the problem.
 
Two questions:
I can understand about old files but if you can't attach new files how will dumping solve anything?

What about the addon library, will that work?
:kilroy:
 
Terry said:
Don't know if this a clue or not, but yesterday I could not upload an avatar photo either. It said the photo was a invalid file. Today it works with the same photo, so you fixed part of the problem.
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I tried to upload one today and it says invalid file,and none of the generic will load either.
 
i am re-thinking this, but we may have reach a limit to how many GB's the data base can hold

its a nice day in paradice so I am taking the day off
 
I dumped all the photos I have uploaded over time. Perhaps if everyone did the same it would help relieve the space problem.
 
Start anew with attachments Ron, we'll survive just fine. My 2cents only.

Have a great day off.
 
start affresh is my opinion also
hey what good is it if we cannot upload new ones
i know you have been trying
sometimes just quit banging your head against a wall:icon_lol:
we will survive
just my 2 cents also
H
 
You can ignore my other mail, then.

I had earlier reported a busted link to one of HouseHobbit's missons.

You can dump that along with all the other stuff.

I quite agree with all; clean start. Trying to fix will only drive you unnecessarily mad.
 
Well, here I go again...
While most posts are shoot-from-the-hip, often there are threads which have a little reference value.
It would be nice to be able to find them again - I see the posts database has started anew with the new board, don't know if it's possible to resurrect the links from the previous one?
And of course keep the attachments.
There, it's said...so if you do succeed, there is someone who would appreciate it!
 
Wing_Z said:
Well, here I go again...
While most posts are shoot-from-the-hip, often there are threads which have a little reference value.
It would be nice to be able to find them again - I see the posts database has started anew with the new board, don't know if it's possible to resurrect the links from the previous one?
And of course keep the attachments.
There, it's said...so if you do succeed, there is someone who would appreciate it!
Click to expand...
the previous ones?
the post database is the same
its just attachments
H
 
I say go ahead and dump the attachments and start fresh since the forums have come back up. I deleted all of mine this AM. I'm still trying to figure out how to upload an attachment in this new format. :banghead:
 
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