Attachments

[admin tim]

Testing the attachments .... Attachments are now stored in the database.

[How Brown]

:phone:"...Bruno...yeah its me, How. Call off the hit on the Texan...repeat...call off the hit...come home...and bring home some canoles..."

Good going Tim.

[How Brown]

38,106 posts last year. I personally took off over 13,000 posts myself during 2009.

Over 104 posts per day, day in and day out.

Very nice numbers from one and all.:eyebrows:

[Canuck]

Testing attachments. PNG format test.

[Canuck]

Testing attachments: WAV files. Now you can share your thoughts without typing them, perfect for the lazy.

[How Brown]

Canuck:

The wav. file worked on my end.

[Robert Linford]

Is it a piece of music? Nothing happened.

[How Brown]

Robert:

It was just one note.

[Canuck]

Error fixed.

[How Brown]

Come here and let me hug you Canuck !:thumb:

PM me and whatshisname as to what the issue was,please.

Thanks on behalf of the entire site...including Robert !

Your attachment was 613 KB....

Here's the same kitty at 38Kb

http://i908.photobucket.com/albums/ac287/HowieNina/Easter%202011/canuckcat.jpg

[admin tim]

I know what the cause was now, Howard.

We may have to limit our attachment sizes for reasons of security. Our host will advise us if so.

If so, then I think we should just switch to thumbnails that can be enlarged by the viewer upon clicking. I know of other VBulletin sites that do just that, probably for that same reason.

I'm sure we'll talk more of it, but for now the battle is won.

Three cheers for Canuck! :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

[How Brown]

Tim:

The battle is indeed won.

I converted one poster's attachments ( some newbie fellow ) into Photobucket ones all damned day today....57 Mb worth.

I feel sorry for everyone else, being conscientious, since I didn't get a chance to make great posts or captions, as they suffered the most. My apologies.

We'll get there.:thumb:

[How Brown]

13Mb less of a load....over 140Mb less than when I started a while back.
Replaced 168 or so attachments with PB today.

[How Brown]

Converted 28Mb today...and will be looking at 50Mb more converted tomorrow.

[How Brown]

We're down to 208 Mb of attachments on the site.
I just spent 4 hours pervertin' and convertin' and our data load is far lighter.
I successfully subverted 52 Mb in those 4 hours...which is a record for these here parts.

We lost no posts or attachments during this extensive subversion process.
Total attachments---3530 ( down from 4200 when I started on the 8th of May)
Disk space used-----208.21 Mb ( down from 422Mb when I started )

In short...I cut the load down by over one half from two weeks ago.

This should make it easier for members and onlookers to navigate the boards.

Much more to do.