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whats happened to the photos?????????
GSteer
Registered
Aye, the old posts prior to mid afternoon today just list text Attachment links for me with nothing on the end.
Johnny5's post is showing some here: http://www.penturners.co.uk/acrylic-turned-items/19076-timeless-collection.html that was posted at 16:14.
Actual image link address: http://www.penturners.co.uk/attachm...1d1485619992-timeless-collection-p1286258-jpg
Johnny5's post is showing some here: http://www.penturners.co.uk/acrylic-turned-items/19076-timeless-collection.html that was posted at 16:14.
Actual image link address: http://www.penturners.co.uk/attachm...1d1485619992-timeless-collection-p1286258-jpg
A very good question - what HAS happened to the photos? One problem sorted - another rears its ugly head. This software and database is doing my head in. I'll get it sorted though. Have faith and have patience.
Lons
Fellow
I don't envy you the job Phil
Penpal
Grand Master
I have some to post will wait until the all clear.Thanks for the heads up George.
Peter.
Peter.
chas_41_uk
Registered
I'm glad its not just me who can't see the photos.
wm460
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I can see the photo's.
May be only the good people can see them.
May be only the good people can see them.
sammy
Graduate Member
Glad it's not just me, I thought my new kindle was on the blink.
George
George
Update
Sometime either over night or tomorrow I am going to install a new set of clean, upgraded files which I have been supplied by vBulletin. It's not a simple operation and I have an awful lot of reading and preparation to do before that can happen.
I sincerely hope that by doing that, not only will all the missing photos re-appear, but that all these stupid, niggly little errors that have beset the forum in recent months and which have been driving me mad, and I have no doubt everyone else too, will be laid to rest.
The database will be backed up over night, as it is every night, so if anything is lost, which I'm hoping it wont be, the losses will only date date back as far as this evening.
You should be aware that the forum will be offline for a short while to allow this to happen. vBulletin have suggested a working method to minimise the downtime, but in truth I have no idea how long it will be. However I'm guessing it will be a matter of perhaps an hour.
There are two worst case scenarios - one is that the forum is down for longer, in which case you will know it hasn't gone to plan. Don't despair though (that's my job!!) You can rest assured that I will be doing everything possible to mend things as quickly as possible.
The other worst case scenario is that the upgrade fails to retrieve the lost photos, in which case I will have no option but to restore them from a backed up version of the database from before the time that they vanished, which means that all posts made after Friday night will be lost.
I'm painting a black picture though - hopefully all will go smoothly and nothing at all will be lost. However, you can expect the forum to be down for a short time in the next 12 to 24 hours.
Thanks for your patience.
Sometime either over night or tomorrow I am going to install a new set of clean, upgraded files which I have been supplied by vBulletin. It's not a simple operation and I have an awful lot of reading and preparation to do before that can happen.
I sincerely hope that by doing that, not only will all the missing photos re-appear, but that all these stupid, niggly little errors that have beset the forum in recent months and which have been driving me mad, and I have no doubt everyone else too, will be laid to rest.
The database will be backed up over night, as it is every night, so if anything is lost, which I'm hoping it wont be, the losses will only date date back as far as this evening.
You should be aware that the forum will be offline for a short while to allow this to happen. vBulletin have suggested a working method to minimise the downtime, but in truth I have no idea how long it will be. However I'm guessing it will be a matter of perhaps an hour.
There are two worst case scenarios - one is that the forum is down for longer, in which case you will know it hasn't gone to plan. Don't despair though (that's my job!!) You can rest assured that I will be doing everything possible to mend things as quickly as possible.
The other worst case scenario is that the upgrade fails to retrieve the lost photos, in which case I will have no option but to restore them from a backed up version of the database from before the time that they vanished, which means that all posts made after Friday night will be lost.
I'm painting a black picture though - hopefully all will go smoothly and nothing at all will be lost. However, you can expect the forum to be down for a short time in the next 12 to 24 hours.
Thanks for your patience.
Bucks
Fellow
Good luck with it Phil, hope it all goes to plan
Penpal
Grand Master
I spent quite some time with my provider who suggested changing from a dynamic IP to Static would cost 10.00 Dollars a month on top of my costs now Phil so I wonder at the need with the forum in limbo as it is now.
Peter.
Peter.
Pierre
Graduate Member
But the photos were back this morning!!
Not all of them Pierre. There's a huge chunk of them missing.
UPDATE
I took the forum off line for about half an hour this morning. All the files have been successfully upgraded, but there still seem to be a lot of pictures missing. I'm in contact with the people at vBulletin to try and establish a way forward.
Lons
Fellow
Best of luck with all that Phil, not an easy task.
As an aside, the forum wouldn't let me in last night, needed to log in with name and password which normally is automatic, no problem as possibly my laptop but then refused my password saying incorrect.
No probs now though logged straight in.
As an aside, the forum wouldn't let me in last night, needed to log in with name and password which normally is automatic, no problem as possibly my laptop but then refused my password saying incorrect.
No probs now though logged straight in.
Lons
Fellow
Nope still playing up, wouldn't allow me to click a like button saying I don't have permission then logged me out and made me log in again 
wm460
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Its contagious I seem the have caught as well. 
Had to do same a s Bob.
Had to do same a s Bob.
Everybody needs to log in again the first time. The site was switched off for maintenance, so everyone got logged out. Even though it might have looked like you were logged in at first, that was just the cache in your own computer giving you a false illusion. It's not a system fault.