Mutt
03-31-2009, 06:35 PM
yep, you can now recover the old lost attachments. I wrote a couple custom scripts which gives us access to them 1 thread at a time. Now alot of them are crap but there are many threads I'd like to rebuild like all the photo album threads.
if you have permissions to upload attachments, you have permissions to recover lost attachments.
on the forum display page where all the threads are listed, look for the thread with the missing attachments that you'd like to recover. See the little paperclip to the right? (red arrow is point to it in this pic)
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click on that paperclip and a little window will open like this
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The window is broken into Attachments (stuff that's already in the new system) and Old Attachments. (the crap that's missing) Only users with upload permissions will see the Old Attachments. Clicking on those links will open up the lost attachment allowing you to save it locally. once you save them, please attach them to the thread using the new system.
Please don't try to post these old images with the IMG tag, the ATTACH tag or any tag. The permissions on them are very limited and most people will just get dead image links. You need to save them, then re-upload them. you can upload them to the posts they came from or you could just reply to the thread and upload them all in 1 post. if you are the thread owners, you could edit your first post and upload them there.
I'd like to come up with a more automated process but this is as far as I've gotten and there are more important things for me to be working on right now.
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also, you can now embed attached images in your post FULL SIZE. the 2 above images are actually attachments to this post. I'm using the tag. To use it you need to grab the images attachmentid. there's alot of numbers int eh URL so make sure you get the right one. Wrap the attachmentid with the [ATTACH] tags like this [ATTACH]2146 and your done.
it only works in the post that the images are attached to. all it does is change the existing thumbnail a the bottom of the post to an inline image.
Outside of that post, you could always use the [IMG] tag.
if you have permissions to upload attachments, you have permissions to recover lost attachments.
on the forum display page where all the threads are listed, look for the thread with the missing attachments that you'd like to recover. See the little paperclip to the right? (red arrow is point to it in this pic)
2146
click on that paperclip and a little window will open like this
2147
The window is broken into Attachments (stuff that's already in the new system) and Old Attachments. (the crap that's missing) Only users with upload permissions will see the Old Attachments. Clicking on those links will open up the lost attachment allowing you to save it locally. once you save them, please attach them to the thread using the new system.
Please don't try to post these old images with the IMG tag, the ATTACH tag or any tag. The permissions on them are very limited and most people will just get dead image links. You need to save them, then re-upload them. you can upload them to the posts they came from or you could just reply to the thread and upload them all in 1 post. if you are the thread owners, you could edit your first post and upload them there.
I'd like to come up with a more automated process but this is as far as I've gotten and there are more important things for me to be working on right now.
[hr]
also, you can now embed attached images in your post FULL SIZE. the 2 above images are actually attachments to this post. I'm using the tag. To use it you need to grab the images attachmentid. there's alot of numbers int eh URL so make sure you get the right one. Wrap the attachmentid with the [ATTACH] tags like this [ATTACH]2146 and your done.
it only works in the post that the images are attached to. all it does is change the existing thumbnail a the bottom of the post to an inline image.
Outside of that post, you could always use the [IMG] tag.