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Title: Old "modifications" forum
Post by: rknize on Fri, 20 July 2012, 16:58:17

...is now diy->discussion

Title: Re: Old "modifications" forum
Post by: Soarer on Sat, 21 July 2012, 08:14:41

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.

Title: Re: Old "modifications" forum
Post by: mkawa on Sat, 21 July 2012, 08:29:48

the attachments will most likely not be coming back.

Title: Re: Old "modifications" forum
Post by: Soarer on Sat, 21 July 2012, 08:53:29

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 [attach]nnnnn[/attach] with an IMG or URL tag.
... and replace direct links to attachments similarly.

Title: Re: Old "modifications" forum
Post by: mkawa on Tue, 31 July 2012, 18:19:59

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)