Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: Jim on September 19, 2009
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As you may well have heard, DBF was wiped off Hostpapa's servers at the end of August. Our backup of the database was only a day old so we have been able to move hosts and restore all the users and posts after a lot of effort by Shockwave.
We did not, however, have a full backup of all the post attachments. We have restored about 75% of the attachments, but there are hundreds of files still missing.
The attached program is designed to scan your hard disk for these missing attachments, after which it will zip them up. This archive can then be uploaded to us and then I can add them to the attachment folder. It should only take a few minutes to scan your drive, even if it is huge.
If attachments are found on your disks, please PM me, Jim (http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=15), so I can arrange for you to upload the zip file. Please do not upload the attachment zip files to public servers.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
EXE and Source (C#) attached.
Jim
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Awesome work, Jim. K++ !!! Very handy tool. Great idea that it zips them
up automatically!
Found 54 attachments. PM is on the way.
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Hmm .. I did not see the PM I sent you in my outbox. Did it arrive ?
In addition - Is it possible to attach files to PMs ?
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Hi Benny,
I saw your PM. Thanks! If you want to keep a copy in your outbox then you need to check the box at the bottom saying 'keep a copy in my outbox' before you send it.
You can't attach stuff to PMs. I will give you some FTP site details by PM for you to upload the files to. Filezilla is a great tool to use.
Jim
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Hi Jim!
Great tool! It saved me a LOT (and I mean that!) of work...
found just 104 attachments, look for PM ;)
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did a 2nd run on the other HDD... found 4 more attachments.. I'll upload 2 separate files just renamed...
DBFAttachments_1stRun.zip and DBFAttachments_2ndRun.zip
waiting for info... ;)
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I found 140
K++ By the way
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karma++ :clap:
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Nice job Jim, as I kind of expected it only found the files left in my upload directory which were the handful of attachments I already fixed. Seems my aggressive file cleaning works rather to well. But hopefully not everyone is as quick to clean there drives as me.
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Nice program there Jim!
It's seems that my pc is a backup drive for DBF ;D, I've found 273 archives :)
But sadly the program crashed at the end scanning!
Here is a log message:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: The entry 'Attachments/RPG (attempt).zip' already exists in the zip archive.
at Ionic.Zip.ZipFile.InsureUniqueEntry(ZipEntry ze1)
at Ionic.Zip.ZipFile.AddFile(String fileName, String directoryPathInArchive)
at Ionic.Zip.ZipFile.AddItem(String fileOrDirectoryName, String directoryPathInArchive)
at dbfattscan.DBFAttScanView.ZipUp()
at dbfattscan.DBFAttScanView.btnGo_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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dbfattscan
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///E:/Download/2009/DBFAttScan/DBFAttScan/dbfattscan.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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qe9klnxo
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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Ionic.Zip.Reduced
Assembly Version: 1.7.2.26
Win32 Version: 1.7.2.26
CodeBase: file:///E:/Download/2009/DBFAttScan/DBFAttScan/Ionic.Zip.Reduced.DLL
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
For example:
<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
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Rats! It's supposed to spot the dupes and throw them out :(
I'll see what I can do.
Jim
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Nice that you have all those archives Rbz :)
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Rbz,
Can you manually edit the AttachmentSummary.xml file and remove the 3 entries for 'RPG (attempt).zip' and then run the scan again. I wasn't expecting that!
Jim
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Jim, I've removed that but it crash at twistcrt.zip, twisterstrack.rar, YDT.zip and I don't know how much more files I need to remove, it could be thousands ???
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OK, I'll fix it tomorrow. Thanks very much for trying. These are attachments with the same name but attached to different posts. You're right, there are potentially dozens of these and I don't do anything to separate them out.
Jim
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Right, that's fixed, the new EXEs are attached to the first post.
Jim
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OK, I'll fix it tomorrow.
I don't think anyone expected "tomorrow" to mean half 12 in the morning :D well done Jim, I'm downloading the scanner now
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I don't think anyone expected "tomorrow" to mean half 12 in the morning :D
It's tomorrow if you live in Australia :P
@Jim, now it works fine here, 273 attachments found (29,1MB) \o/
I'll send it tomorrow since I'm using a slow connection at home, but my brother have a fast one.
btw, inc [karma] :)
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Nothing on this computer, but I'll scan my backup comp later. Pretty good tool though
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I'll scan my backup comp later.
Please do!
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Found 30 on desktop and 64 on laptop. :)
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Much appreciated - upload details on the way!
Jim
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Sorry Jim wasn't sure what to do with these so i've attached them to this post.Got permission from Nick to do it this way.
These are the ones from desktop.The ones from my laptop will be with you shortly.
Thanks mate Wayne :)
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Laptop scan. :)
Thanks Wayne
<edit> Thanks very much! Jim
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Can you upload the DBFAttachments.zip files instead of the DBFAttScan.zip, that's the one with the results in.
Cheers,
Jim
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Can you upload the DBFAttachments.zip files instead of the DBFAttScan.zip, that's the one with the results in.
Cheers,
Jim
Sorry i thought i'd done that.I'll try again. :whack:
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DBFAttScan.zip is the executable you downloaded from here. You've uploaded it three times now :P DBFAttachments.zip is the file you are looking for.
Jim
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He he as you can tell i'm having a few problems with this simple task. :whack:
For some reason once it zips it i cant seem to find the file :-[
Any help would be gratefully received. :)
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Make sure you unzip the program fully, and run it from the unzipped folder. When it's finished the DBFAttachments.zip should be created in that folder, next to the exe.
Jim
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By the way, 527 unique attachments have been uploaded so far, and this evening I have uploaded them to the site - we should be seeing far fewer 404s thanks to this great effort!
Thanks to everyone who's run this tool so far!
Jim
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Hooray finally the penny dropped. :updance:
Thanks for your help Jim and K+ :)
Labtop
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And finally the desktop :)
<edit>smashing, thanks! Jim
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GREAT. Cool news, Jim.
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Thanks Benny.
There were almost 50 more new ones from Wayne. All uploaded on to the site.
I wish more people would run the tool, 8 including me out of 670 users is pretty poor.
Come on guys!
Jim
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Just got an upload from Hellfire - thanks!
I'd be particularly interested in an upload from spitfire and hezad...guys?
Jim
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Just made this a sticky topic to help all the members find it more easily.
Hope this is ok.
Let me know otherwise. :)
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Wonderful piece of software :) Great idea and execution too...scanning as we speak :)
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Thanks Ferris Even if it doesnt find much I really appreciate you running it :)
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Found 1 on my C drive and 7 on my D drive..PM'ing now :)
My one suggestion would be to update the archive instead of writing a new one, if that wouldn't be too complicated..other than that I really do love this idea :D Great job, really. :clap:
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84 here, great idea with the program :||
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I have temporarily increased the upload limit to 10,000kb so you can attach them to your replies here if you like :)
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Here you go... 34 found here... hopefully some rare ones...
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Thanks mate
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I'm running it on my work laptop at the moment - it's found 20, hopefully something amongst them is useful.
I still have my desktops at home and work to check, so I'll have 3 lots of archives to post in total.
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Sorry,
No attachments discovered here .. :-\
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heya guys :)
scanned 3 HD's and found 25 files in total in 2 of the 3 HD's
hope there is something useful in there :)
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sorry, none found here - not even the couple that I had uploaded myself
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Thanks everyone!
<edit>
CK0, PrimeEvil, Thygrion, DaFatStuff, BikerBoy your attachments are now live on the forum. There were dozens of unique new ones found!
Jim
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The tool and its idea are great!
I did a scan on two partitions of my drive... and found following files:
Attachents_C.zip:
Attachments\3443_pic.JPG
Attachments\4493_coppertro.jpg
Attachents_D.zip:
Attachments\314_AMIGA.zip
Attachments\3153_raytracer_optimus.zip
Attachments\3319_[PLANTLIFE] REGROWTH.ZIP
Attachments\3347_[PLANTLIFE]_REGROWTH - UPDATE.ZIP
Attachments\336_CopperBars.bas
Attachments\3442_Horizon_AwesomePreview_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3658_VisionFactory_ShadowLands_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3661_VisionFactory_AbandonedPlaces_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3672_VisionFactory_Gunship_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3850_blocktunnel.zip
Attachments\4065_Vroom Cracktro 3.rar
Attachments\4254_nlib1.jpg
Attachments\4256_nlib2.jpg
Attachments\4258_nlib3.jpg
Attachments\4362_DemoFX.zip
Attachments\4399_LedTronic.zip
Attachments\4440_XMasDemo.zip
Attachments\4497_coppertro Dawn.rar
Attachments\4707_circles.zip
Attachments\4728_POSTMORTEM.zip
Attachments\4734_1dd781e65bb49139952d7ecdb09ae81c35cf0e29
Attachments\4739_5155c68d61f758fdd39b44e1d44e49c08c24cba1
Attachments\4740_1a5d9e9320f6fa90e61267cdd4577e2dcb52976b
Attachments\4744_def3b44982477095c13846119201dd590c3d2a7e
Attachments\4746_a9969d1a30dbe5280c698499a2ef2dd83ad5e96e
Attachments\4749_e5266f14f48457b7bf8b86677e01eca9d00a7cb9
Attachments\4770_070378aa67e0d0e3719c2e473d6cf5abb22fad54
Attachments\4779_06db632d81c26598f651fa9c5cc529846925aa0a
Attachments\4780_71f13bde11fef21e405270c31b6effacf4f14803
Attachments\4784_9fc204cca1d94045073bfcbd96836fbe4a827706
Attachments\4785_9e62b3c22a5c80e282e4b42bd0e7969138a8a65b
Attachments\4792_f8a415e44188eab28b2efb9fe5bbe4b09f999a60
Attachments\4797_82bea8ba1c4e3b0c82949b60cd0af456393216e1
Attachments\4800_a907cc704ff4c06ef86ae542dfb643b755e44512
Attachments\4951_b81bd341fa3c468439b80b2b3933d75f9c80111b
Attachments\4954_9750deeb8e961b1d684a607d1a2f2771df2e07d4
Attachments\596_Buddhabrot v1.0a.zip
Attachments\610_drawland.zip
Attachments\647_chmosaic.zip
Attachments\654_chspeck.zip
Attachments\679_VF_Zoom.rar
Attachments\792_xmasmemorial.zip
Attachments\98_swxor20.zip
Attachents_E.zip:
Attachments\3087_DSCI0009.JPG
Attachments\3089_DSCI0007.JPG
Attachments\3091_DSCI0008.JPG
Attachments\3093_DSCI0019.JPG
Attachments\3095_DSCI0015.JPG
Attachments\3097_DSCI0014.JPG
Attachments\3099_DSCI0025.JPG
Attachments\3101_DSCI0026.JPG
Attachments\3107_DSCI0016.JPG
Attachments\3109_DSCI0018.JPG
Attachments\3111_DSCI0001.JPG
Attachments\3113_DSCI0006.JPG
Attachments\3115_DSCI0027.JPG
Attachments\3117_DSCI0003.JPG
Attachments\3119_DSCI0005.JPG
Attachments\3121_DSCI0020.JPG
Attachments\3123_DSCI0023.JPG
Attachments\3125_DSCI0031.JPG
Attachments\3859_Intro_1_Source.zip
Attachments\4362_DemoFX.zip
Attachments\4399_LedTronic.zip
Attachments\4438_XMasDemo.jpg
Attachments\4440_XMasDemo.zip
Attachents_G.zip:
Attachments\3149_128.zip
Attachments\3310_dotshapes.zip
Attachments\3351_MAD_688SubAttack_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3368_Burnside Map.rar
Attachments\3402_DBFGVY.ZIP
Attachments\3453_zenon.zip
Attachments\3504_Scoopex_LogicalPreview_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3531_Borg.zip
Attachments\3537_Starfield.zip
Attachments\3553_retrochunky.zip
Attachments\3575_xalboy.zip
Attachments\3613_tunnelaki.zip
Attachments\3672_VisionFactory_Gunship_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3684_Crystal_F-15_Strike_Eagle_II_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\3769_0_17-low_strez - v2.zip
Attachments\3831_4colours.zip
Attachments\4053_Shape Interpolate.rar
Attachments\4079_intro.zip
Attachments\4131_Scoopex_Xenomorphs_Win32Remake.zip
Attachments\4150_oracle_sinemania.zip
Attachments\4153_Cities.rar
Attachments\4254_nlib1.jpg
Attachments\4256_nlib2.jpg
Attachments\4258_nlib3.jpg
Attachments\4294_Tiny_DX9_Crinkler.rar
Attachments\4306_Cube_ledcomp.jpg
Attachments\4320_diodeballs.zip
Attachments\4335_grahamlogo.rar
Attachments\4362_DemoFX.zip
Attachments\4367_1k_Bingen_Please-Do-Not-Copy-Nor-Spread-This-Version.zip
Attachments\4369_1k_Bingen_Please-Do-Not-Copy-Nor-Spread-This-Version2.zip
Attachments\4370_Tiny_DX9_Crinkler.zip
Attachments\4372_images.zip
Attachments\4373_LedOnLedFail.zip
Attachments\4382_careless.zip
Attachments\4383_dbf08.rar
Attachments\4387_cubes.zip
Attachments\4392_LED_Challenge_DBFFORUM.zip
Attachments\4399_LedTronic.zip
Attachments\4400_Image1.jpg
Attachments\4424_Happy_New_Year_2009_!!.rar
Attachments\4438_XMasDemo.jpg
Attachments\4440_XMasDemo.zip
Attachments\4452_1k_Bingen_251208_NoPublic.zip
Attachments\4453_ASCIIscroller.rar
Attachments\4454_BinaryStarfield & BinaryBabe.rar
Attachments\4455_1k_Bingen_261208_NoPublic.zip
Attachments\4464_dAWN-twg-04_REMAKE.rar
Attachments\4485_smileyfield.rar
Attachments\4496_hvlplay_wip.zip
Attachments\4509_gui_app.zip
Attachments\4510_haujobb+paradox.zip
Attachments\4511_hjb_menu.zip
Attachments\536_hypnosis.rar
Attachments\596_Buddhabrot v1.0a.zip
Attachments\610_drawland.zip
Attachents_H.zip:
Attachments\3082_VGA TUNNEL.ZIP
Attachments\3083_WaterWorks.zip
Attachments\3084_rpppp.zip
Attachments\3086_Bits Hex and all that jazz.txt
Attachments\314_AMIGA.zip
Attachments\3145_cave.zip
Attachments\3149_128.zip
Attachments\3153_raytracer_optimus.zip
Attachments\3156_devcpp-tinyptc_ext.zip
Attachments\3158_[procedural] Golden Hypnosis.rar
Attachments\3180_liq.zip
Attachments\3188_[PROCEDURAL] FIRE.RAR.rar
Attachments\3191_spider.zip
Attachments\3202_allsorts.rar
Attachments\323_speech_dev_c.rar
Attachments\324_speech_FB.rar
Attachments\3265_test.zip
Attachments\3291_clip.zip
Attachments\3297_Rad_player_win.zip
Attachments\464_TheGraveyard.zip
Attachments\4708_Synth_Stereo_Test.zip
Attachments\491_cdemo.zip
Attachments\525_1K_FrameWork_VC2005.zip
Attachments\656_attractors.jpg
Attachments\657_attractors.zip
Attachments\679_VF_Zoom.rar
Attachments\814_XMAS.rar
Attachments\841_SYNTEX.rar
Attachments\924_johnnywalker.zip
Attachments\969_speech.zip
I will check my CD / DVDs i have very soon too...
Btw, thanks for brining back the forum and recovering the old stuff (postings and even its attachements!)
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Great! If you can upload the DBFAttachments.zip file that it created to here, or PM me for FTP details that would be much appreciated.
Jim
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Jim, PM with FTP access is on the way ^^
Added some more zips to the FTP...
filesnames are ending with _C.zip, _D.zip and so on... (see my post before)
DBFAttachents_C.zip ... and on on ;) Best regards
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Sent my part to Jim.. hope it helps.
:whack: my upload speed is 2KB. Capped around 256KB per session! :bfuck1:
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my upload speed is 2KB. Capped around 256KB per session!
Ouch!
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84 here, great idea with the program :||
bump
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The scanner found 3 zips. Here they are. Hope it helps
;)
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K+ Thanks Death, appreciated.
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np glad to help :)
How is the recovery going?
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How is the recovery going?
It's the post attachments that are the main thing, I have some bugs to fix in the code of the site to make it more compatible, the front page needs finishing and I need to code a new CMS for the site, really though the attachments are the real biggie, the rest will come together with time.
Besides I have a few weeks off for Christmas so I hope to dedicate a 4 or 5 day stint towards coding the site then.
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Thanks to Death3031, Mziskander and Vain there are another 60 unique attachments being uploaded as we speak. That's nearly 700 attachments fixed so far :D
<edit>Tetra - I have yours now too - missed them before. Thanks!
Jim
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Sorry for the delay. Here's what was found on my old computers' harddisks. Hope it helps!
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Hi Jim
Ran your cool tool and found these thought i had more
oh well hope it helps
Longlive DBF :D
RageSnax
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Thanks Padman and RageSnax!
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I've got zachwater.zip and voxel_bukkake_release.zip, if you still need them
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Thanks Effecto :) Jim will grab those.
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Here are the attachments from my work desktop.
Now all I need is enough time to scan my home desktop.
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Thanks!
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found some more ;D
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I finally got round to checking my final computer - 2 lots of attachments.
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Thanks CK and Bikerboy! Some new ones in there :)
Jim
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Hey guys. I ran the scanner and found a couple, but they aren't very important. They're just a couple of silly things I made, and one of them doesn't even work as expected. :p Anyway, I can FTP em, if you guys want... just send me a pm.
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PM sent!
Jim
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Thats what I found ;)
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Thank you for running the scanner :)