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From: Dust Bowl
St. Jude Donor '03-'04-'05-'06-'07-'08
In other words, the files that most of us have had here for the better part of the decade are likely gone forever unless something's done to where we can log in.
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From: [QUOTE=onedef92]Remember when that spookable closed the door on that mofo and trapped him inside tha
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I did some investigation on the homepages. The application is hosted by a 3rd party, whose database server is not responding. We haven't decided the future of this feature yet, but I wanted to let you guys know we are looking into it.
We are looking into the database errors.
We are looking into the database errors.
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Originally Posted by Cars2007
I did some investigation on the homepages. The application is hosted by a 3rd party, whose database server is not responding. We haven't decided the future of this feature yet, but I wanted to let you guys know we are looking into it.
We are looking into the database errors.
We are looking into the database errors.
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As I understand it, the home pages have not been lost, but the software Troy used to manage the homepages was not transferred to IB and remained on Intechnic servers until about two weeks ago.
At that point, Troy moved his other automotive enthusiast sites away from Intechnic and the home page management software disappeared in the process.
I think that must have been about the time we were no longer able to log on to the home pages.
An upgraded version of that software is available. Whether it will work on the home pages created with the older version of the software will have to be determined.
At that point, Troy moved his other automotive enthusiast sites away from Intechnic and the home page management software disappeared in the process.
I think that must have been about the time we were no longer able to log on to the home pages.
An upgraded version of that software is available. Whether it will work on the home pages created with the older version of the software will have to be determined.
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This is the kind of problem I think we'll start to see crop up with the aquisition of this site by Internet Brands. This site is just one of many owned by IB and for this reason we'll never see the personal touch and attention to these minor type issues that we did when Troy owned the site.
Had this issue cropped up when Troy owned the site I'm guessing he would have posted some type of message advising members to save any files stored on homepages prior to the recent changeover in the event that information was lost.
I could be off-base with this assumption, but it certainly seems to be the case in my opinion.
Had this issue cropped up when Troy owned the site I'm guessing he would have posted some type of message advising members to save any files stored on homepages prior to the recent changeover in the event that information was lost.
I could be off-base with this assumption, but it certainly seems to be the case in my opinion.
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From: Dust Bowl
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As I understand it, the home pages have not been lost, but the software Troy used to manage the homepages was not transferred to IB and remained on Intechnic servers until about two weeks ago.
At that point, Troy moved his other automotive enthusiast sites away from Intechnic and the home page management software disappeared in the process.
I think that must have been about the time we were no longer able to log on to the home pages.
An upgraded version of that software is available. Whether it will work on the home pages created with the older version of the software will have to be determined.
At that point, Troy moved his other automotive enthusiast sites away from Intechnic and the home page management software disappeared in the process.
I think that must have been about the time we were no longer able to log on to the home pages.
An upgraded version of that software is available. Whether it will work on the home pages created with the older version of the software will have to be determined.
I have alot of things on my page and file that I don't have anywhere else if I lose it I'll be very bummed
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From: Dust Bowl
St. Jude Donor '03-'04-'05-'06-'07-'08
The pages have been there for years and now, *poof*. I'm searching old threads trying to find the ones I really want to keep, old pics of my dogs, etc, that I don't have anywhere else.
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it would have been nice if Troy had posted in OT to let us know he was changing the server........so we could get anything off of our pages that we wanted
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We have sent an inquiry to Intechnic to see whether they can send us a dump of the old database. If they can, we can get it up and running. If they can't or won't, we will not be able to fix this. The database holds login information, maps usernames to the directories all the stuff was in, etc.
In the case that we are not able to get a database copy from Intechnic, you can still go to any of the homepages and do a File->Save. It should grab the whole page, images and all. You'd have to do it once for each page on your site.
In the case that we are not able to get a database copy from Intechnic, you can still go to any of the homepages and do a File->Save. It should grab the whole page, images and all. You'd have to do it once for each page on your site.