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Updating old picture links?
TankManNick
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Posted: Monday, September 12, 2016 - 04:31 AM UTC
I was forced off of comcast as an ISP last year and had to sign up with another provider. As a result, any past pictures pointing to my old site now don't work

So my question is, is there any way of updating those old links to point to the new site?

I'm guessing I am not the only one as many past posts have broken links. I guess the external links are to save on space, but that has the unfortunate effect of invalidating many older entries...

Anyway, just thought I'd ask!
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Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 07:45 PM UTC
Ah, the essential weakness of the internet! Any time an image is moved to a new folder (or new ISP) this happens. We cannot go back and edit all our old posts anymore - this was disabled a while ago after one stroppy ex-member went back and deleted all his old posts. So the only way would be if Jim S decided to write a program to trawl through the threads database and do a swap. But that assumes all your images are in exactly the same folder structure (including spellings!) on the new server, so that only the top-level domain needed changed. It could be done (in theory), but only if it is a 100% exact match, and only if Jim thinks it is worth the effort!

That's why things get published as Reviews or Features even if they already appeared as blogs. The images for these articles are held on the Kitmaker servers, so are less likely to move anytime soon...
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Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 09:56 PM UTC

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Ah, the essential weakness of the internet! Any time an image is moved to a new folder (or new ISP) this happens. We cannot go back and edit all our old posts anymore - this was disabled a while ago after one stroppy ex-member went back and deleted all his old posts. So the only way would be if Jim S decided to write a program to trawl through the threads database and do a swap. But that assumes all your images are in exactly the same folder structure (including spellings!) on the new server, so that only the top-level domain needed changed. It could be done (in theory), but only if it is a 100% exact match, and only if Jim thinks it is worth the effort!

That's why things get published as Reviews or Features even if they already appeared as blogs. The images for these articles are held on the Kitmaker servers, so are less likely to move anytime soon...


Yeah kinda figured that would be the case. The idea that nothing ever dies on the internet is so obviously not true!

I see you are in East Anglia - fun fact - I attended UEA waaay back in the day!
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Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 10:52 PM UTC
Are you sure about not being able to edit old posts? Is there a cut-off date, as I am pretty sure I have been able to edit my old posts.

However, if you have a lot of posts it would not be much fun going back to replace all those old links.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 11:08 PM UTC
As a last resort you could reply to your own post with all the new images...
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Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 11:36 PM UTC

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Are you sure about not being able to edit old posts? Is there a cut-off date, as I am pretty sure I have been able to edit my old posts.

However, if you have a lot of posts it would not be much fun going back to replace all those old links.


That's a good question! I know it was put in place a couple years ago, with a short (1 hour?) window of opportunity to edit posts, but I just looked at some of my old ones and I still get the "EDIT" button. But that may just be a Staffer's perk... (Never needed to know before, so never checked up!)

Nick, how'd you get from UEA to California? (Probably as convoluted as my life journey from New York to Barking, Essex, I guess. )
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Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 03:15 AM UTC
The edit and delete buttons go away after 10 minutes.

Moderators could go back and edit uses' old posts, but it really is too much to ask.

I think adding a new post to an old thread with the new image links would be a nice gesture.

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Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 09:24 AM UTC

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Nick, how'd you get from UEA to California? (Probably as convoluted as my life journey from New York to Barking, Essex, I guess. )


UEA = University of East Anglia for those who don't know!

UEA->Programming job @EMI->Whitbreads->Traveling in France and Italy->Waitrose->Ampex-> "temporary 3 month assignment in California"

..and well the temp job became perm job and I've been 'stuck' here ever since!

Eventually dug all my old models out of Mum's attic in UK and brought 'em over to CA - and started up again!
TankManNick
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Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 09:25 AM UTC

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As a last resort you could reply to your own post with all the new images...


Actually a good idea - at least for the ones I can remember!
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Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 04:24 PM UTC
On your profile page there is a link to a list of your forum posts and articles, the subject should give you a clue of whether you need to update it or not.

Hope this helps!
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Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 05:02 PM UTC
I suppose another option would be to post pics in the Kitmaker Gallery and pay the miniscule subscriber's fee in order to obtain an obscene amount of storage space. just sayin'...

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