Pictures gone missing

**Ueee** · 23rd February 2014, 12:15 PM

I have just been looking through an old thread of mine and to my dismay all the images are missing from the first few pages. https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...=148329&page=2

Now i know this happens if a photo bucket etc account is changed or deleted, but these photo's are all on my WWF albums. https://www.woodworkforums.com/members/74282-albums Has there been a URL change for these or somesuch?

Seeing as how the lathe in question is one of only 2 i have ever seen on the internet i'd like the images to come back if possible.

Cheers,
Ewan

**Big Shed** · 23rd February 2014, 03:20 PM

Ewan, have referred your query to the powers that be and they will be looking in to this.

**Ueee** · 23rd February 2014, 09:05 PM

Thanks Fred,
Our fantastic forum owner is on to it.......

Ew

**ubeaut** · 24th February 2014, 11:58 PM

For anyone else who thinks pics have gone missing, here's what we have discovered.

Looks to be tied in with our removal of vBSEO (Search Engine Optimisation) program about 2 1/2 weeks ago. vBSEO was integrated with the forums but no longer being supported by vBulletin and had become a security threat. Took almost 3 weeks to fully uninstall it and get or keep all of our search engine rankings and everything else that went along with it. The problem with pictures was not one we had anticipated or even knew of until Ueee mentioned it in here.

We are working on a universal fix which could take a few days. Only other option is to restore each and every pic individually one at a time and this could take until 2021 if this is a wide spread problem.

Cheers - Neil

**Bryan** · 20th March 2014, 07:39 AM

Any progress on this? I'm having the same problem.

**ubeaut** · 20th March 2014, 03:48 PM

G'day Bryan - 'Twas fixed Feb 25th.

Please send details (url) of the thread/post your pics are missing from and I'll have a look see.

Cheers - Neil

**Bryan** · 21st March 2014, 08:10 AM

**ubeaut** · 22nd March 2014, 11:33 AM

Working on it Bryan - It appears to have the wrong urls to the pics in each post the same as Ueee's did. I have asked Steven for a universal fix but this may take a couple of days.

I did a manual repair to one to make sure the pics were there and it worked fine, but best to do a universal fix rather than heaps of searching for correct pics then manually editing and changing each one.

Cheers - Neil

**FenceFurniture** · 22nd March 2014, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by ubeaut

I have asked Steven for a universal fix but this may take a couple of days.

Neil, do you mean a universal fix for all pics missing on the forum, or just Bryan's? There is a least one thread of mine where pics are missing, but i haven't checked others as yet.

**ubeaut** · 22nd March 2014, 12:05 PM

Was under the impression the last fix was universal but I guess it wasn't.

Same deal as Bryan.

If you can find the individual posts where pics have gone missing please post a list of them here and I'll add it to the to do list and hopefully this time it will fix them all if it is the same problem.

Cheers - Neil

**FenceFurniture** · 26th March 2014, 06:11 PM

Sorry Neil, somehow I missed your reply here.

The one that i know about is this one (and the pics are still missing from the first post)
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f44/drill-deck-181639

If you need it, the BB code for the first pic is (I used the bb in the thread):

and the second:

I'll have a look through some other threads to see if they are ok.

**FenceFurniture** · 26th March 2014, 07:16 PM

**FenceFurniture** · 26th March 2014, 07:49 PM

I just tried to see what would happen when I copied two posts to a word document to see what I got (the two posts with and without the drill deck pic). In neither case did the BBcode or pic show up, BUT when when I pasted it into a reply here it did. In the word document it just shows up as a blank line.

That doesn't prove anything, and I guess isn't helpful, but is just an observation.

**ubeaut** · 28th March 2014, 09:41 AM

STILL WORKING ON IT.

Won't show up in word doc because they are on the forums. In your album.

They all for some reason have the wrong address. They can be found and uploaded manually but no wau am I going to try and track down every single pic and manually reload them. Many, many, nmany, hours of work to do that.

Steven is trying to find a work round for it if not able to work it out we will reassess the matter and put the outcome in here.

Neil

**FenceFurniture** · 28th March 2014, 09:58 AM

Cheers Neil. No, I wouldn't expect you to reload every pic - as you say a mammoth task. The problem as I see it is that it may be happening to anyone who uses the BBcode.

Re Word doc - I knew the pic wouldn't show up, but I thought the BBcode might, but it's just a blank line (even though pasting into a post reveals the pic (i.e. the BBcode is there). Ni big deal at all, just thought it may provide a clue.

Ueee: do you use the BBcode, and was it those pics that were missing in your posts?

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