Image issues

[Toxic]

I noticed a few threads now have broken attachments. the images are not displayed and clicking on the link shows the following error.

vBulletin Message

Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator


here's one thread this morning but they are many more. looks like attachments have been cleansed out of the database

http://www.ds3club.co.uk/showthread....narok-s-Racing

Anyone else confirm?

[Dangerousfish]

I'll have a look at it this morning. Thanks for reporting it.

[lfcrule1972]

I think this occurred last week too and Fish was running something to try and fix it ?

[Dangerousfish]

We had to run a restore the other week so it's just a case of re-syncing all the images to the database.

I'll be able to get round to this tonight. Apologies for the inconvenience guys.

[lfcrule1972]

No worries, it's not like this is your only job

[WTF]

Its much easier to host them externally and insert the links. Images are full size in threads, you don't need to resize them when uploading. If you opt for photobucket you can crop images, edit, add filters and so on.

More info about how to use here

[Chris_Blue]

Does that mean all past images loaded bout 12 month ago are lost

ED- Think admins doing something as all my albums are currently empty at time of edit (And had just loaded them back up LOL)

[Toxic]

appears mine from yesterday have now gone

http://www.ds3club.co.uk/showthread....l=1#post124554

[Dangerousfish]

Please see my previous post guys..

[cyclone]

Put down that game controller and get to work Liam!

[Dangerousfish]

Put down that game controller and get to work Liam!

Busy day at work. Had to drive upto Yorkshire and back so we could setup an Oculus Rift for an expo we're off to at weekend. I've been playing with that all day

[cyclone]

Busy day at work. Had to drive upto Yorkshire and back so we could setup an Oculus Rift for an expo we're off to at weekend. I've been playing with that all day

All I hear was I've been playing all day

[Toxic]

All I hear was I've been playing all day

yes me too lol

[Dangerousfish]

Looks like a large portion of the attachments database has been corrupted and recovering just a couple of individual tables from backups is going to be like stepping through a minefield.

Sorry guys. It won't be possible to recover the images that were previously attached internally or to your albums.

As we always suggest, I would recommend that for any images that you want to post you should ideally be using an external provider. By doing this you mitigate using up the bandwidth and disk space of the server and also keep your own sudo-backup in doing so rather than relying on our backups.

I'll keep the feature in place for those of you who are uncomfortable using a provider such as Photobucket or imgur..

Sorry.

[Toxic]

Thanks for trying