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RWDPLZ
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JUL 31, 09:18 PM
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Found all the AC parts pics/lists in my backup files, restored to the thread.
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Patrick
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JUL 31, 10:25 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by RWDPLZ:
Found all the AC parts pics/lists in my backup files, restored to the thread.
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That's great that you were able to do that. Would've been impossible with an archived thread. 
I'm still holding on to the hope that Cliff is somehow able to get the 100,000 missing images from Jason (isthiswhereiputausername).
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fierosound
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AUG 01, 09:41 PM
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Cliff Pennock
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AUG 02, 03:23 AM
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The problem is as follows:
The hosting company where the (image) server was hosted, was sold to another party. According to isthiswhereiputausername, the new guys are a bunch of morons. During migration, they "acidentally" deleted everything on the server (I'm guessing this was a shared server and they simply repurposed it). So far, they have been less than willing to cooperate restoring from a backup.
I have emailed isthiswhereiputausername and asked him if I could help putting these guys under pressure. I'm pretty sure they can be held liable for losing all that data.
Other than that, I have a partial backup myself which I already restored. I was actually meaning to backup the rest of the images, but never got around to it since, well, life got in the way. I also didn't give it a very high priority because my own experience with hosting companies is that they simply don't lose your data. I never expected to encounter one who does and is even unwilling to cooperate after they did.
So will we ever see those images again? I really don't know. It sucks big time because I've always stressed how important it was to upload the images to PFF's image server so they would never get lost. And yet, here we are.
So how many images are we talking about? I'm not entirely sure, but between 40,000 - 100,000. I will try to write a script that will go through all threads on the forum and mark any missing image. That should give me a better idea.
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Cliff Pennock
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AUG 02, 07:00 AM
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Okay...
A total of 329,633 images were posted on PFF of which there are now 53,808 images missing (16% of the total). Of those 53,808 missing images, 10,340 images are from TO/T.
So a total of 43,468 important images are currently missing.
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Cliff Pennock
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AUG 02, 09:33 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Cliff Pennock:
A total of 329,633 images were posted on PFF |
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That should actually read: "... were posted on the PFF servers". There's also about half a million images posted on photo hosting sites like photobucket and imgur. I have no idea how many of those have disappeared over the years.
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fierosound
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AUG 02, 10:21 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Cliff Pennock:
Okay...
A total of 329,633 images were posted on PFF of which there are now 53,808 images missing (16% of the total). Of those 53,808 missing images, 10,340 images are from TO/T.
So a total of 43,468 important images are currently missing. |
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Thanks Cliff.
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