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Post by Arnie Benton on Jul 11, 2015 20:55:15 GMT -6
Are we going to be able to save the old forum in any way, shape or form, or will all disappear on July 15?
Arnie
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Post by Kuba on Jul 12, 2015 1:01:24 GMT -6
Arnie, I think it is possible to archive old forum by some software/plugin to archive web pages for offline reading. I will try to find some soft for that.
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Post by William Melstrom on Jul 12, 2015 4:04:08 GMT -6
kuba, if you or anyone else can archive or save the information on the old forum that would be great.
Otherwise, the fate of the old forum is a slow death to its auto-archiving feature. On the old forum, over time, all threads get moved to the Archive Section where they are difficult to access and use, and become close to useless.
Most of the old forum has ALREADY been auto-archived. The old-forum's auto-archive feature was random and unpredictable. All I know for sure is that a thread that wasn't updated or added to would eventually get archived.
If I had known about the auto-archiving feature on the old forum I would never have chosen escoboard as the host, and would have found a different forum software platform.
Auto-archiving was the number one liability of the old forum, and a serious short-coming. The New Forum is hosted by ProBoards, the industry leader in Free Forums. Auto-archiving, unreliability, instability, and many other annoyances will not occur on the New Forum.
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Post by Kuba on Jul 12, 2015 5:46:55 GMT -6
I am doing forum copy for 5h till now and have more tan 400MB, will see how its gonna look like when I finish. I am using HTTrack Website Copier. Never used before but it is worth trying.
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Post by Arnie Benton on Jul 12, 2015 6:50:18 GMT -6
That's wonderful! I hope it works and we can arrange a ceremony to give you a medal.
Arnie
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Post by Kuba on Jul 12, 2015 12:11:09 GMT -6
OK, it is about 500MB and works but I tested it for 5 minutes only...
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Post by Kuba on Jul 12, 2015 12:18:30 GMT -6
I will share link after uploading on my google drive, so You can all test if it is working
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Post by Kuba on Jul 12, 2015 12:42:43 GMT -6
I uploaded all forum files and packed it to one ZIP file. You can download it here: OLD FORUM ZIP file 370MBI cannot guarantee it will work in 100% I tried with some post form archive and I can open posts form 2009 so I think it should work in most cases. Firstly You need to unpack ZIP file and then open the "index.html" file. Regards Kuba
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Post by joerg on Jul 12, 2015 13:10:51 GMT -6
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Post by Kuba on Jul 12, 2015 13:23:11 GMT -6
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Post by Avi on Jul 15, 2015 14:01:14 GMT -6
Amazing!!!! The entire Forum as of July 12th. 377 megs zipped. 536 MB/ 27,548 Files, 4,207 Folders unzipped!!!
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Post by tileman2 on Jul 28, 2015 21:27:24 GMT -6
Just checked the old forum tonight before I hit the hay. Seeing more and more black book markers: which means more of it will disappear shortly. Almost like watching the Titanic sink... sorta sad.
Tom
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Post by joerg on Jul 30, 2015 15:43:58 GMT -6
Amazing!!!! The entire Forum as of July 12th. 377 megs zipped. 536 MB/ 27,548 Files, 4,207 Folders unzipped!!! thanks, Jakub and Avi! and it's clean... at least Avira ...did not find any virus :-) hasta la vista! Jörg www.crystalsforever.com
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Post by Kuba on Jul 31, 2015 0:31:41 GMT -6
Good that someone scanned it with antivirus soft Thx Jorg
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Post by Dave Hodapp on Dec 21, 2015 23:31:23 GMT -6
Is there a way to search the old forum once it has been downloaded and unzipped onto a computer?
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