Smarch 3,194 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Two things to help going forward: 1. Everyone update their avatar (It makes it seem like the site is active and not everyone is just default/aka attracts people thinking we are active) 2. When starting new posts make sure things are capitalized where they need to be, it helps the overall look being professional) no eaglesfan036 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle 667 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Yeah I have 6.2 GB downloaded, I bought a program last night that extracted all the files while I slept but it's all coded. So it's essentially useless, then? Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarch 3,194 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 So it's essentially useless, then? i'm sure someone that knows computers might be able to do something. The only thing I could have gotten was all our smilies on the old site. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 So it's essentially useless, then? In theory if we open up a temporary SMF forum and import the backup there (since it's designed for SMF it should work there) we should be able to access what we need. I just hope it actually contains actual posts and not just forum system info. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins 3,618 Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 I'm going to try one more time to download, if not teamviewer sesh later? Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarch 3,194 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 In theory if we open up a temporary SMF forum and import the backup there (since it's designed for SMF it should work there) we should be able to access what we need. I just hope it actually contains actual posts and not just forum system info. thats all i recognized other then smilies was forum system info Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 thats all i recognized other then smilies was forum system info Actual posts could be highly encrypted though. 6GB seems way too large to be behind the scenes info and smilies. Might be best to check with smf support about whether or not the backup file will give us access to what we need. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarch 3,194 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Actual posts could be highly encrypted though. 6GB seems way too large to be behind the scenes info and smilies. Might be best to check with smf support about whether or not the backup file will give us access to what we need. alright i'll keep checking out all the stuff i got here. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 alright i'll keep checking out all the stuff i got here. Chances are if anything is there, like I said, it's probably encrypted. Is there a way to get SMF for free or would we have to pay for it if we needed to build a temp site? Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarch 3,194 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Chances are if anything is there, like I said, it's probably encrypted. Is there a way to get SMF for free or would we have to pay for it if we needed to build a temp site? i'm not too sure about that, but i'll look into a temp smf page. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack 498 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 SMF the software is open source, you can grab it for free if you have web space. http://download.simplemachines.org/ Or you can run a local XAMPP server and get it running on that, PM or post here if you have questions. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 So basically if we could find some free web space and not have very many people access it (therefore avoid bandwidth issues) we could probably set up a free SMF forum and put the backup on it to get the information. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack 498 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 So basically if we could find some free web space and not have very many people access it (therefore avoid bandwidth issues) we could probably set up a free SMF forum and put the backup on it to get the information. Exactly, the only issue is finding a free web host that gives you over 6GB free. Worst case we pay $5 and get a month of it. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 Exactly, the only issue is finding a free web host that gives you over 6GB free. Worst case we pay $5 and get a month of it. Yeah, that's not bad. I would just like to know that we CAN get all of our important posts back before we pay anything. $5 isn't much but it would be annoying to pay just to find out that none of the posts exist anyway. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack 498 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Yeah, that's not bad. I would just like to know that we CAN get all of our important posts back before we pay anything. $5 isn't much but it would be annoying to pay just to find out that none of the posts exist anyway. If I can get the whole thing downloaded I'll try running it locally to see if it works. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage 2,899 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Btw, anyone know if we can increase avatar size a bit? Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 If I can get the whole thing downloaded I'll try running it locally to see if it works. That could work. Smarch, do you have any suggestions for getting the download to work? I think for most of us it gets to like 1.5GB and then stops downloading and extracts to like a 2.5GB file. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 Btw, anyone know if we can increase avatar size a bit? I'll look into it. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar 283 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Im here Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boragina 89 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Boys. Everyone here is doing great work. I wish I could help... but I'm so tied up with school and personal problems...This weekend doesn't look good, but I'll look around during the week a bit more and see Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 Btw, anyone know if we can increase avatar size a bit? From what I've found it used to be doable but they removed the ability in recent updates. I'll look into some hacks for it later because they are pretty small. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarch 3,194 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 That could work. Smarch, do you have any suggestions for getting the download to work? I think for most of us it gets to like 1.5GB and then stops downloading and extracts to like a 2.5GB file. No tips, I just did it at night when no one was on the site, Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,101 Posted September 28, 2013 Commissioner Share Posted September 28, 2013 No tips, I just did it at night when no one was on the site, Alright so chances are it is the fact that we were all trying to download it which likely fucked with the servers that I doubt are too robust for something like this. So download one at a time guys Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devise 4,475 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 So nice to head off for a few hours come back and you guys have already continued to do a lot. Honestly at this rate it won't take us too long to get this running, provided we get the back up working as intended.Also Jackim, I was assuming SMF would have a way for you to check stuff locally before making it live. But who knows, forum domains are far more particular about stuff than traditional domains. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 11,021 Posted September 28, 2013 Admin Share Posted September 28, 2013 Oh FFS, I just realised I changed the style of the cup winners' threads on the new board as well. Someone did a lot of potentially useless work. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/2-new-forum/page/5/#findComment-428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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