by Mark » Thu May 24, 2018 6:01 am
Right, as far as I can tell, the pictures are corrupted on the server. Probably, the folder was corrupted as it's got a huge number of files in it. I'm hoping that I can get a copy of the back-up from before the site went down, then I can restore them. Unfortunately the back-ups are un-accessible to me as the old control panel is no longer accessible via the internet. Therefore I'm reliant on the hosting company sending it to me......and they aren't the brightest stars in the sky!
Sadly, it looks like it's impossible to re-upload your photos directly to the forum en mass. The forum software renames all the photos to something unintelligible and I can't see any way of automatically renaming the original files to what the forum is expecting. There are some 5000+ files and I don't know if it's possible to relate them to the original file names in the database, if the original file names are even stored there.
Finger's crossed that the hosting company can provide me with a back-up so I can recover them. If they can, it's shouldn't be too difficult.
Cheers
Mark
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