wheres all the pictures gone

[MTboatguy]

None of the images I have uploaded in the past have disappeared, they are still there.

 

[sam am I]

Then why are all of the images I had previously loaded still here?

:israel:

Perhaps then I'm out to lunch here and it's just me, but none of the images from months ago I posted for example, that were in my(the server) library then, are in the current library now, they're all gone/MIA. And, if I go back to months ago posts(mine or others), all the images appear to be broken still.

 

[sam am I]

None of the images I have uploaded in the past have disappeared, they are still there.

So, were they gone once and came back? or always there? Sounds like(as per his post) achris and I have the same issue then

 

[sam am I]

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[MTboatguy]

Could be an intermittent broken database link and as they get those fixed I would imagine based on my experience over the years, that they will start showing back up for everybody.

 

[sam am I]

Could be an intermittent broken database link and as they get those fixed I would imagine based on my experience over the years, that they will start showing back up for everybody.

Do you see the images?

http://forums.iboats.com/forum/engin...es-anyone-know


"Link"? More like links, 1000's ...........Every page from the past that has a pic, months ago past, mine or not are broke like the print screen image above. You and Bob_VT are telling me yours aren't? You're serious?

 

[MTboatguy]

Sam, the links in those images are currently broken links due to different database formatting in this version as opposed to the previous database version as I said, it is format changes in the database currently causing the problem, and it also depends on how those images were first place on this website, if they were uploaded to the iboat server, then until the full conversion of the database format is all done, which I can obviously see it is not, then images are not going to show up. It takes a while with any database upgrade to get all of the cell formatting updated to the new version.

Now, I am sorry, that might not be a satisfactory answer for some, but it is what it is an it will take time. The database link I am talking about it not the same as an internet link, images are stored in a directory and assigned an identifier as to where the location is, when you upgrade to a newer system the database link can and often times is in a different format based on the particular database software you are using, this software uses a mysql database, which when upgraded to a newer version changes cell linking formats and naming formats. Those images are still on the server, but right now that database does not know how to find all of them.

Again, I am sorry if that explanation is not what some want to hear.

 

[sam am I]

No worries and I have all the time in the world, but as stated, if and I mean IF(just have that feeling is all) they don't make it back, corruption, crash, jumbled mess beyond sorting and re-patching each and all, whatever, I was just offering help and a suggestion, not blood.

 

[MTboatguy]

No worries on my part either Sam, I am just trying to help people understand some of the various things that are going on, I have loaded one of my servers in a very similar situation and then did the upgrade that they did to see what various problems it is creating, every time I get an error on iboats I go to my server to see how to duplicate it and start working to see if I can find a solution, I am not anything to iboats except a user like you, but in my retirement I have do virtually all of the server, database and .php support for my wife's internet company that deals with tons of .php, mysql and forums software for her clients, in addition I run several of my own forum systems for quite a few different topic areas.

They will get it fixed, I am sure, it just takes time when crap happens along the way.

 

[jbcurt00]

I haven't back checked all of my pre-changes posts & pix, but I 'think' most of the pix I posted via PB's IMG code are still visible & shown.

Any I used the previous forum software uploader or that I cut & pasted from somewhere online as a drag & drop, are not. And for sure the pix I copy & pasted from another iboater's post to drag & drop aren't all showing up.

That may be because of however the original poster uploaded them. I do that most often when someone posts pix as attachments & it's troublesome to flip back & forth from my reply to the opening the attachments & back to my reply. I'll just right click their pix & drop it into my reply.

 

[MTboatguy]

That is what I was trying to explain JB, there are a lot of different ways to add pictures on this type of forum software, and it creates a problem when upgrading to newer versions of the software sometimes, I have noticed quite a bit of formatting changes in the newer versions of mysql as well as the VB software.

 

[jbcurt00]

I was only letting Sam know that it's not just him. Thanks MT

 

[toneeees]

Any images uploaded directly to the forums in the previous version were stored in our database. With the database changes this caused a problem and we are working on getting that fixed with the help of vBulletin's support team.