Re: A question about the archive from the old server.

Don Richter Wrote:
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> John may know some voodoo trick to get things
> associated correctly, but when we were discussing
> it, earlier, we didn't have any good ideas. We
> still have all the original material, and if some
> spark of brilliance comes up we can go back and
> take advantage, but at the moment, I don't know
> how to re-associate all the images with their
> parent posts.
>
> Don

The only voodoo would be to make a change to the conversion script and re-run the database conversion.

Here's the old format of one of the messages (no. 95305) Phil linked to above:

Quote

SUBJECT>C&TS Engines *PIC*
POSTER>Rich Muth
EMAIL>*removed*
DATE>1181185396
IP_ADDRESS>c-75-71-65-136.hsd1.co.comcast.net
PASSWORD>*removed*
PREVIOUS>
NEXT> 95307 95308 95309 95310 95311 95312 95317 95358
IMAGE>ht t p : / / www.ngdiscussion.net/Images/pic95305.jpg
LINKNAME>
LINKURL>
< P >I forgot I had these in my camera. They were taken during the week before Opening Day, 2007!
< P >

As you can see, the image link is there. But it did not make it into the new database - the conversion script throws that information away. As I said above, images are stored differently in Phorum (they're in the database, not files on the server), and the conversion script was not written to convert images - only text.

If someone wants to take a crack at hacking the conversion script to convert images, I'll re-run it.

If someone wants to volunteer to manually re-link the 2433 images, I'm sure Don would love to hear from you (even if he might question your sanity).

JAC



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2007 05:00PM by John Craft.