I have noticed many of old threads with missed attachments. ( i.e. my signature threads ) Will be recovered or are they definitely missed?
Unfortunately, I didn't realize the upgrade had broken the attachments - nor how many were broken - until about a week after the upgrade. It was too late to start over again. So, I'm fixing them as I can but it's much more labor intensive to do it while the site is live. I should be able to recover most (if not all) of them. There's over 300k in total so checking them will take a while. Right now I get an error message for every one that fails and there's thousands of errors per day.
Troy
Don't worry, I was just asking! I can guess is a hard labor.
Happy birthday BTW!
Thanks! I was away all weekend but will be back on it tomorrow.
Troy
Quote from: Troy on April 26, 2023, 10:39:12 PMUnfortunately, I didn't realize the upgrade had broken the attachments - nor how many were broken - until about a week after the upgrade. It was too late to start over again. So, I'm fixing them as I can but it's much more labor intensive to do it while the site is live. I should be able to recover most (if not all) of them. There's over 300k in total so checking them will take a while. Right now I get an error message for every one that fails and there's thousands of errors per day.
Troy
Dumb question for you, Troy...
The way you're describing the "patch" for photo attachments after the forum software upgrades, it sounds like an absolute mess - which you didn't create, and certainly didn't need. Plus, it has to go way beyond irritating to get thousands of error messages
per day. :rotz:
Here's my question for you:
How long would it take to make the repairs if the site were NOT live? If it would be down for +/- a day while that were happening, it might be way easier for you than fixing them (more or less) one at a time. It seems like if we gave everyone a couple of weeks' notice before a planned shutdown for maintenance, that wouldn't be the worst thing...?
Just a thought, and I'm sure I'm over-simplifying things and/or overlooking some major impediment to that approach.
:cheers: