Photobucket Fix

[PridenJoy]

Originally Posted by PG2

Link them into a PM as you would if you were posting them into your build thread. You will need to let the person know which pic goes to which thread/post.



Did you save your photos to some sort of hard drive?

You can put all of the photos into one folder and do a bulk upload into Flickr.

Click on 'upload' and go to bed and it can upload them while you sleep.

If the photos have kept the same file name Russ can more or less do a 'set and forget' with a' search and replace' function to re-link the photos.

The members listed above have volunteered their time to do this. If it is one or one thousand photos that need to be re-linked we are happy to do it. If you do want to do the re-links just be patient while someone does them. It may take a few days to do.

I think most pics kept their same name, the above would be my preferred option. I appreciate the volunteers have donated their time, and a big thanks to them for doing so, but i don't think they would know which pic goes where (as in which post and which paragraph in each post), so i would rather leave it the way it currently is than having pics in places where they don't belong. But if Russ has a way of finding pic names and just replacing the links around them then that would work.

Currently uploading 1000 Triplet files to Flickr. It didn't like me and a message came up telling me 'wow, too many pics'

[russellw]

Originally Posted by PridenJoy

I think most pics kept their same name, the above would be my preferred option. I appreciate the volunteers have donated their time, and a big thanks to them for doing so, but i don't think they would know which pic goes where (as in which post and which paragraph in each post), so i would rather leave it the way it currently is than having pics in places where they don't belong. But if Russ has a way of finding pic names and just replacing the links around them then that would work.

Currently uploading 1000 Triplet files to Flickr. It didn't like me and a message came up telling me 'wow, too many pics'

The bulk replace function takes the original url and replaces it with a new one and it's a one off command to do it.

So, for example:

OLD LINK http://photobucket.com /fred/pics/123.jpg
NEW LINK: http://wherevertheyarenow.com/fred/pics/123.jpg

is a simple replacement. In fact, as long as the image name is the same it doesn't matter how different the rest is. All we need to know is the old photobucket folder name - the bold bit above (which we can look up even where they are broken) and the new hosts link.

Originally Posted by mcflux

G'day Russell,

Great effort from all on this!

For clarity, what constitutes a "bulk" edit? Only two recent-enough threads of mine come to mind where there are photobucket links, but they have only 16 and 8 PB pics respectively.

A ton of facebook-linked pics have disappeared though - not even a broken link, just a blank line in the post(s).

Cheers,

Dave

The blank lines are where some bulk edits have already been done but as per above, replacing them is easy.

Originally Posted by BLU-220

What happens to my images now?? since I have closed my PB account can they still be edited??

Cheers Dean

We can still edit the links manually. We don't need to know what image belongs where as the editors can see the old URL even when it is broken so as long as the image name is still the same (or similar) they can be fixed.

Cheers
Russ