Webshots/Tech article ALERT!

[Agnem]

All, maybe this has been covered already, but in case not, I've just learned that all of my (and anyone elses) webshots albums and pictures will be deleted on December 1st. This is a terrible blow to our tech articles section which has relied heavily on linked webshots pictures. I have so many and am so busy with my job that I will not have time to move all these to the new sucessor, Smiles (which is stupid and worse than webshots ever was). I'd suggest any of you that have time, print out and save these old articles, or if your tech savy and can steal the pics away and re-write the ariticles, that would be wonderfull. Our tech articles section is about to be blown up into smithereens.

 

[whiteboyslo]

Anything we can do to help? Maybe host pics on our photobucket accounts temporarily or something?

Mike

 

[hesutton]

I'm in the same boat Mel. Over 600 pictures will be lost on my account. Don't have the time to move and recaption those. Once gone, they will likely stay gone.

Really sucks, but nothing I can do now.

Heath

 

[bagpiperjosh]

that sucks! i really feel there needs to be a better way to organize these tech articles and vid posts and etc.. i see alot of tech articles with broken images. I dont know much about that sort of thing. but if there is any way that i can help. i will.


(on a side note, maybe a video section dedicated just for how to vids might not be a bad idea)

Edit- Can't images be hosted on this web site? that would be the safest bet

 

[icanfixall]

So why can't we as a collective print all this information and save it on a hard copy ourselves or at least save it to our systems. Going back to a paper copy is really going back to the stone ages but not as far back as a carbon copy is...

 

[riotwarrior]

I don't know if I can do this or not, I could theoretically save each image in webshots...(READ LOTS OF WORK) and then save them in a file for which they can later be uploaded to either this site hosting the images and linking them in the article or perhaps on to a photobucket account of the sites choice??? Or Pixa...owned by Google IIRC...

The biggest issue, is knowing which article is webshots...and which isnt...

Kinda leaving this to last minute no????

 

[gandalf]

So far I have 14 tech articles saved to my hard drive, including pictures. They're from page 1 of the tech article section. I'll go on to pages 2 and 3 later--maybe tonight or Wednesday when we're scheduled for rain.

Some of the pictures in articles do not save the way I'm doing this. I'm skipping those articles for the time being. Some of the articles don't have pictures. Those articles aren't at risk, so I'm not saving them.

The real test will be whether the pictures are still there after I reboot, and if I disconnect from my router--go completely offline.

Questions:

1) Can OB save the articles and pictures on it's own server space?
2) Presumably the author of each article has the accompanying pictures on their own hard drive. Can they not "re-supply" the pictures?

This problem was discussed several months ago, as I recall. Why are we in a blind panic just five days before the pictures disappear? People knew this was going to happen.

This is a prime example of the "Principle of the Seven Ps."

Proper prior planning prevents ****-poor performance.

For what it's worth, I'm right in there with everyone else. I didn't do anything about saving articles and pictures either.

 

[hesutton]

I'm not paniced, just don't have the time to upload hundreds of photos with captions in a few months. It took me years to put all that crap on there and only a few weeks to find a solution. Not in the cards for me and my webshots stuff.


You can and I will download all your pictures (637 in my case) onto your computer. Screw "Smile"........ **********!

Heath

 

[The Warden]

I imagine it would be easiest to host photos directly on this site in the future, but FWIW I have some webspace that could be used to store pictures. I'm pretty sure that the articles I've written all have photos that are stored directly on my webspace.

I'll see what I can do about storing pictures from other articles...

That's really not "right" of Webshots to be shutting down with this short of a notice

 

[riotwarrior]

Can the owners of the webshot accounts not go in and download their respective images to save them, we can rebuild the articles later with the images once the hosting is taken care of?

I'm fortunate that I'm all photobucket for my stuff....SO FAR...who knows if they'll change too....

 

[franklin2]

You can save the articles intact, but it does take time and a fast connection. I have done several through the years, and glad I did because they are gone. Somewhere along the way I saved a article on how to rebuild a E4OD, and sure enough it's gone now.

You need Microsoft Word.

Go to the article, and highlight and copy all the text. Open a blank word document and paste. All the text will go in, the pictures usually will not. Then go back to the pictures, right click over top of the picture, and then hit copy. Go back to your word document you are building, find where in the text the picture belongs, make sure the cursor is in the right place, and then right click and paste. Word will accept the picture and put it in the document. If you have just a link to the picture, click on the link, bring the picture up, and do the same thing, right click copy and paste it in the article in the right place.

The text goes in all at once, but I seem to have to do every picture separate. I am not a computer guru, so someone may have a better easier way, but when I am done, depending on the format, it looks just like the original article.

I don't know how hard it would be to convert something like this back to a new tech article page.

 

[gandalf]

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You need Microsoft Word.

Go to the article, and highlight and copy all the text. Open a blank word document and paste. All the text will go in, the pictures usually will not. Then go back to the pictures, right click over top of the picture, and then hit copy. Go back to your word document you are building, find where in the text the picture belongs, make sure the cursor is in the right place, and then right click and paste. Word will accept the picture and put it in the document. If you have just a link to the picture, click on the link, bring the picture up, and do the same thing, right click copy and paste it in the article in the right place.

I don't know how hard it would be to convert something like this back to a new tech article page.

The 14 articles I did earlier this morning were done this way, copy and paste into M$Word. The pictures transferred in all 14 as a single cut and paste. I did not have to go back and select them individually.

There were other articles in which the pictures did not transfer. I will come back and do those the slower way, time permitting.

Copying the articles this way I am ending up with them in doc format for M$Word. The pictures are not separate. I have not yet tried to lift one out of a doc file.

This is not the ideal method by any means. I will have articles on MY hard drive, with probably no easy way to get them back online in html format. They can go back into a tech article section in doc format, but that would mean that anyone wanting to see them would have to download into M$Word. If nothing else, this gives us more time to play with them for a final answer.

 

[Darrin Tosh]

Yup Mel, It really sucks, I found out about it last month, We all have spent so much time taking pics, uploading them to webshots so we can have big pics show up in the threads.

All of my makeovers, Big Ed, Makeover 1 and 2, Droopy Build, the Yamaha Royal Makeover, all on 3 and 4 different websites, All of the Fall Rallys, All GONE!

Here is my original post on it:

http://www.oilburners.net/forums/sh...of-my-Pics-will-disappear!&highlight=webshots

It has taken the wind out of my sails to be taking pics of stuff and posting,....

 

['94IDITurbo7.3]

you mean all of Big Ed's and Droopy's pics are on webshots only?

 

[Darrin Tosh]

you mean all of Big Ed's and Droopy's pics are on webshots only?

No They are on my computer as well, I just wont have the time for a while to redo all of the threads on them...So they will be gone in all of the treads.