UPDATE
I have finally got to the bottom of this and am pretty close to slashing my wrists - either that or pouring petrol over myself and lighting a match.
On the afternoon of Saturday 28th January, the hosting company decided they were going to move the servers on which the forum is hosted, along with all their backups. In so doing, the database was corrupted, and all the backups lost.!!!
The net result was that every photo on the forum simply vanished. Coincidentally, I was working on the files in the Mother Ship at about that time, and for several days I laboured under the misconception that the problem was due to something I had done. I'm pleased to say that it wasn't, but that does not help to overcome the issue.
I have spent a huge amount of time since last Saturday, repairing what damage I can, which has been most of it thankfully, but unfortunately we are still in a situation where most of the photos posted between about the middle of September and last Saturday are missing. For many obvious reasons it is desirable that those photos are visible, and I am currently going though every single thread since last September to establish exactly what is missing.
I intend to contact all those who have been affected, to see if a fresh copy of each photo can be sent to me, so that I can edit them back in to the relevant post - if you are one who is affected - in other words if you uploaded any images to the forum since last September, and you can trace your image, do please let me have a copy and I'll do the honours. There are only about 2600 of them, so hardly any work for me at all
I apologise for the obvious inconvenience surrounding this, both in terms of having to supply your photos again, and for not currently being able to see them in the posts. The circumstances that caused it were completely beyond my control I'm afraid, but with your help, we'll get everything back to how it should be as soon as possible.
I have finally got to the bottom of this and am pretty close to slashing my wrists - either that or pouring petrol over myself and lighting a match.
On the afternoon of Saturday 28th January, the hosting company decided they were going to move the servers on which the forum is hosted, along with all their backups. In so doing, the database was corrupted, and all the backups lost.!!!
The net result was that every photo on the forum simply vanished. Coincidentally, I was working on the files in the Mother Ship at about that time, and for several days I laboured under the misconception that the problem was due to something I had done. I'm pleased to say that it wasn't, but that does not help to overcome the issue.
I have spent a huge amount of time since last Saturday, repairing what damage I can, which has been most of it thankfully, but unfortunately we are still in a situation where most of the photos posted between about the middle of September and last Saturday are missing. For many obvious reasons it is desirable that those photos are visible, and I am currently going though every single thread since last September to establish exactly what is missing.
I intend to contact all those who have been affected, to see if a fresh copy of each photo can be sent to me, so that I can edit them back in to the relevant post - if you are one who is affected - in other words if you uploaded any images to the forum since last September, and you can trace your image, do please let me have a copy and I'll do the honours. There are only about 2600 of them, so hardly any work for me at all
I apologise for the obvious inconvenience surrounding this, both in terms of having to supply your photos again, and for not currently being able to see them in the posts. The circumstances that caused it were completely beyond my control I'm afraid, but with your help, we'll get everything back to how it should be as soon as possible.
