The Case Of The Disappearing Images - solved

Be careful of what you delete. I made the mistake of removing hidden images from my Art pages, not realising they would also disappear from the Journals they were uploaded for. Doh! All good at the end of the day – revitalised affect tutorials with new and better sample images. :)

When I open the tutorial all of the images are gone.

Most of the images are missing for me… (using both firefox and IE).
Are they deleted from your profile or have the links changed when they switched servers?

thanks Shane for that effort! Still waiting for a response from RB – any response from RB!!!!!! – I’m damned if they can’t rectify the broken links.

What?? Deleted by who??

That is such a shame Peter, especially after all your effort.

Maybe you should start a blog with your tutorials? (or have you done this already?)

Do you still have the tutorial images stored on your computer Peter ?

Thanks Jo. I’m a bit confused now because Paul (RB) bmailed and said “I performed a spot check and found that every image I looked at was a deleted image. This would explain the broken images. While a deleted image might end up in the cache for a while, it will eventually expire and be removed.”

I took that to mean all the images were gone forever. I had since then decided to become a member of RB under a different profile purely for the purpose of uploading (and hiding) all images to be re-used in my tutorials, as a means of quarantining them from my actual 14 pages of artwork to manage.

However, from what you and Shane are saying, it appears if I go to Edit and tweak the relevant URLs for each missing image, they will be restored.

Can you please clarify that given what Paul said? If its just a case of revising the URLs for the new server, can you point me to the naming protocol to follow?

Cheers

I lost a lot of Images…….and no recovery..and no record of them.
I do not know if it was the BULK EDIT issue ,which they are fixing now, after a lot of other Member’s have had their images just disappear,or another URL Problem.
But I cannot know what Images have disappeared as my memory can’t go back to over a year ago…..but I know it was more than 8 because they were on my feature list and left a little wee box.
Thanks Jo for your info…..X
And Peter I hope you can get it all fixed up….x

Dang, I just checked and I’m missing images from a tutorial/journal also.

Front End Loader?

the only front end loader I know about is the one that fits on the front of my tractor.

I think that’s what he means Kafka. Just trash them all. That’s what I did with mine. They were old anyway. So I dumped them.

@ Everyone.

Changing the URL of samples to the new protocol only worked for some images not all. This means I still had to re-upload. I took the silver lining and came up with brand new samples, revised and expanded the affected tutorials, and took better and more snapshots of the PE workflow.

I have renewed all but one of the affected tutorials over the weekend and I am happy with the results.

The moral of the story is don’t delete hidden tutorial materials after publishing the tutorial!

The currently unaffected tutorials are going to go the same way when the cache is cleared out again, so I am going to need to be proactive and amend all the URLs.

Thanks for all the helpful advice.

Front End Loader is a band I used to like (up until my brother took his FEL CDs with him when he moved out lol) they had a cool song called “time and inclination” can’t find anywhere that has it streaming properly online :(