How do I get to all my old pmails/photos/notifications?

[da9000]

Let me start off by saying: thanks for running Amiga.org!

As everyone, naturally, I don't like change, but I'll wait to see how I feel about it in the long run. I know the old software was missing a lot of features, and this has some extra, but surely they aren't all equally important.

Having said that, we now get to the meat of the post: since the site has changed, I've lost a few important items which I couldn't save off because it wasn't clear as to when the switch was happening and all that. Can we get access to the below?


1) ALL the old pmails? (even if they're in a raw dump)

2) Our uploaded photos?

3) Our post notification/bookmark selections? (I used to bookmark interesting threads so I could quickly search for them, later, in one page)


Lastly, it might be a good idea to keep a version of the old forums (like other vintage sites have done), so that links from other web sites still work (and change the new forums to use amiga.org/newforums/ as the base path)

[da9000]

Thank you and everyone for all the effort. And for the quick and thorough reply.

1. The last 100 newest should have been migrated over with a script by Karlos. I assume your missing them.

I think the cut-off was/is 250 (in other words I had 247 transferred over). Is it possible to get all the ones I had or at least raise the maximum a bit? (like say 300? I will try to stay below it, I promise :-) ) If we can't raise the max, then at least I'd like to get those old PMs and save them someplace for reference.

2. Working on it. We have a photo gallery installed. Just working on how to migrate over the photo data. I know Wayne posted about this today.

Sounds good. There are too many threads/emails so it's not easy for everyone to be up to date.

3. Gone. Different notification system and bookmarks rely on the URL, which under new software is going to be different. Sorry, not much can be done about that. You can try searching and bookmarking. All forum posts have been migrated over since day one.

OK, I don't mind finding those threads again, however I will need the original list of "notification URLs" so I can search for the thread IDs, because surely I don't remember what threads I had bookmarked. Is it possible to get this information? (it should be stored in some place/file obviously)

EDIT: unfortunately I think the notification URLs won't help. The thread IDs of the old forum don't match the thread IDs of this one :-( I will need the thread subject lines. Unless there's something else that I'm missing.

EDIT: ignore last edit. I can use Google's cached pages to figure out the old thread subjects.

[da9000]

Piru, I obviously missed these announcements due to the short time span over which the switch took place and because I've been way too busy lately to check out things daily. Do you have anything helpful/constructive to add?

[da9000]

@Piru:
It's funny how snide remarks are taken for signs of intelligence these days.

What you wrote is neither helpful nor constructive, because simply: I already know that information and it doesn't help solve my problem which happens to be post-facto regarding the migration. For whatever reason what happened, happened. What can you do or say that will actually have a positive material difference in my current situation?

Anyhow, none of the above cases you mentioned took place. The data is still existent, just not available due to changes in interface/configuration. Furthermore the previous system didn't offer any exporting functionality, so if you wanted to keep a pmail you'd have to copy and paste the text, which beyond arduous, if I recall correctly weren't even complete (containing detail headers, the sent messages, etc. like emails).

Oh, and most importantly: anyone servicing thousands clients, for free or not, ought to keep backups too. So if the data's gone, that is a primarily failure of the service provider. And let's not start with this is a free service and all that mumbojumbo, because as everyone understands a forum is nothing without content and content is added by the members, therefore it's not a "one way" service. It's an ecosystem.


@Wayne:
If the data is around, would it be possible to get a raw dump of them? At the very least the pmails. Who can help me here? Pmails are theoretically text only and couldn't be possibly taking that much space. The photos I have on my disks as that's where they originated, but pmails didn't.

[da9000]

If 100 was the cut off then how come I saw 247 transferred over?

Once again, is the data somewhere or some disk? Can I have a raw dump of those pmails emailed to me? I don't know what my user id was, but I'm sure it won't be hard to find out.

Thanks in advance.

[da9000]

Sorry but I don't know how the importing and transfer all works as I've never played with forum software, even though I do software, but if it was run one more time (in order to get over 100), is it possible to have it be run yet one more time to get all of them?

If not, is the database still around? Or are there multiple databases/files for each user?

Thanks in advance for the explanations.

[da9000]

@cecilia:

That makes a lot of sense. I would have done the same but it wasn't clear when the move was going to happen. I got an email, but I was out of town and didn't think we wouldn't be given at least a month or something. Imagine all the people that visit once a month...

@Karlos:

I understand. If you have some downtime, and can either dump the raw data or modify the script to run per-user, I'd appreciate a heads up.

Thanks