Forum issue: We've lost stuff

potatohead

I had drivers on my blog, and Eric Ball also had a list of nice work he did on P1. Links are dead, and I'm not sure I captured it all. At the least, I will be going through hard drives looking...

Sure wish we had an archive forum. Do we?

Some of this is pretty darn high value, and it might be gone now.

Seairth

potatohead wrote: »

I had drivers on my blog, and Eric Ball also had a list of nice work he did on P1. Links are dead, and I'm not sure I captured it all. At the least, I will be going through hard drives looking...

Sure wish we had an archive forum. Do we?

Some of this is pretty darn high value, and it might be gone now.

I asked about this a couple months back, but never got a reply. I would certainly like to get my blog entries back, as well...

potatohead

Yeah, not happy. Had I known, I would have went and archived a few things. The video drivers for p1 are not trivial to replace. So they won't be.

VonSzarvas

Last week of October I have the chance to meet with IT about a few forum issues, so I've included this as a task.

If the data is available then I will see about getting something done to revive the blog content.

More news after the meet, once I understand where stuff is and figure out what's possible. If it's just a resource issue, I'll post out for help!

potatohead

If possible, I would love to share a link to an old forum post that probably contains attachment numbers for the remainder of the "missing" things. I did find a couple, so not all is lost, but a lot still is.

potatohead

http://forums.parallax.com/entry.php?104-Links-to-Propeller-stuff-I-ve-done

That link went to a blog entry, I think. It was a list of high value video objects and code Eric did for us. Would be great to get those things and repost them, link, or just archive here somewhere, or GitHub...

VonSzarvas

OK, that's gonna help. link noted.

yeti

Mayhaps the WaybackMachine can help a bit:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://forums.parallax.com/entry.php?104-Links-to-Propeller-stuff-I-ve-done

http://web.archive.org/web/20140710131651/http://forums.parallax.com/entry.php/104-Links-to-Propeller-stuff-I-ve-done

potatohead

http://web.archive.org/web/20140710131651/http://forums.parallax.com/entry.php/104-Links-to-Propeller-stuff-I-ve-done

Big help!

Buck Rogers

I was going to offer the classic phrase, "I arranged that!", but I suspected that there would be problems.

Yes please see about restoring these entries. They are all very useful. I suspect there are others with similar problems.

Duane Degn

Parallax did warn us that the blogs weren't going to be migrated to the new forum. Of course if you missed the post it didn't help much.

They even offered to help people download items if needed. I'm pretty sure there was more than one warning about this but again it would be easy to miss these warnings if someone weren't checking into the forum everyday (heaven forbid).

Hopefully the information is still on a hard drive somewhere.

potatohead

Yep, missed it. It is hard to have more of this dialog without going negative. Let's just say it makes very little sense to put any high value things here now, and that is fine. GitHub and friends work just fine and that is my plan. I have control of those.

Beau Schwabe

All I will say here is that the title of this post is a gross understatement

potatohead

Trying to marginalize the negative. . I could put a lot more here. To what good end?

VonSzarvas

I hear you potatohead, no need for more dialog !

As I've said, I'm gonna look into a solution. In the meantime, let's close this thread to prevent potential distractions that might delay progress.