Old "modifications" forum

[rknize]

...is now diy->discussion

[Soarer]

Will any of the images/attachments be coming back?

Surely many of them should be recoverable from a backup. Even though the more recent ones are gone for good, we have some chance of people still being around to re-upload them. The older ones, probably not.

[mkawa]

the attachments will most likely not be coming back.

[Soarer]

But they mostly still exist, somewhere, right? There must be a way, even if they aren't proper attachments as far as SMF is concerned. How about something like...

1. Build an index from the old DB, to get a filename for each old attachment ID.
2. Store the attachments somewhere accessible.
3. Modify the SMF page display code to replace [ Attachment Invalid Or Does Not Exist ] nnnnn[/attach] with an IMG or URL tag.
... and replace direct links to attachments similarly.

[mkawa]

modifications is now "making stuff together"

the attachments no longer exist, for the most part. they were lost in the initial attack (think the new battlestar galactica miniseries)