Is OldWitt in danger of being taken down soon?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Doesn't look like I'll be able to grab the images, since I keep getting shut down by Proboards.  Did the existing archive work?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Working on grabbing images, but running into some problems with that amount of data.  Working on it, but expect nothing in the near term.  Seems pretty low priority anyway.

Everything work okay for you?  I know you'd been wanting this for years now, so I hope that this whole thing wasn't anticlimactic.

Argh.  This got buried with other stuff I'm working on.  Alexander, I'll let you know on this by the end of this month.  Thanks already for an amazing amount of work on this.

Not to be a pest, but I spent a decent amount of time getting this set up and working, and I just want to verify that the archive did work okay.  It's been a few months -- have you had a chance to check it?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I haven't been able to get the images yet, but I'm still working on this.  Just FYI.

TY for you continuing efforts!

Working on grabbing images, but running into some problems with that amount of data.  Working on it, but expect nothing in the near term.  Seems pretty low priority anyway.

Everything work okay for you?  I know you'd been wanting this for years now, so I hope that this whole thing wasn't anticlimactic.

Argh.  This got buried with other stuff I'm working on.  Alexander, I'll let you know on this by the end of this month.  Thanks already for an amazing amount of work on this.

Not to be a pest, but I spent a decent amount of time getting this set up and working, and I just want to verify that the archive did work okay.  It's been a few months -- have you had a chance to check it?

Maybe you missed this, @GV ?

[GV]

Extracting the near-one-gig compressed archive now...

Assuming it works fine (as it should with you having put it together), I will upload it to the Library of Talossa.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Extracting the near-one-gig compressed archive now...

Assuming it works fine (as it should with you having put it together), I will upload it to the Library of Talossa.

You can do that, but it won't really work or be navigable. I recommend that for public access you'll leave it as a compressed file that people can download to their own computers and extract as they so choose. Once it's on someone's computer, then the local links should all work properly and they should be able to just click through as though it were a live site, but that's not possible on Google drive. On Google drive, it will just be a giant collection of unlabeled HTML files in different folders, and thus pretty much useless.

I just want to confirm that you are able to download it, extract it, and then navigate normally through all the different boards at different levels without any trouble or encountering any missing threads?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

So in the last five months, were you able to download this archive, extract it, and then navigate normally without any trouble or any missing threads?  You were working on this for years, and I'd still like to confirm that it actually works for you.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Assuming it works fine (as it should with you having put it together)

Did you ever have a chance to check to make sure that the archive extracts correctly, and that you can navigate through to all the forums and look at different threads? 

I've been keeping my copy for a long while now in case I need to tweak it, but I don't have the space since it's so large.  But I don't want to delete it if something is wrong with the uploaded copy.  It's been more than half a year that I've been asking you this, GV -- please find the time to check this out and make sure it's working.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

@GV ?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Okay, well, I guess I'm just going to delete this file and hope that the archive really does work for you, @GV .  You've been on Witt multiple times over the last eight months, and I've tagged you several times, so pretty clearly you're just purposefully ignoring me -- and that's really rude.  Especially considering how I busted my butt to do this for you and save you from manually saving each thread of the old forum, one at a time, like you'd been doing.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

@GV , it's been a year or so.  Did you ever got around to checking to see if the archive works for you?