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hissy

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Hey guys,

Recently our forums have been crashing. We learned today that if we free up some space on our hard drive, this problem will *hopefully* go away.

Part of the problem are all the attachments (photos) that are stored on our hard drive here in the forums. If you don't mind for those of you who have posted a lot of photos, could you delete the ones that are over 3 months old?

It is fairly easy to do with the new upgrade, click on User CP, the last option under miscellaneous . is Attachments. You will then get a list of all attachments, you click on the box to get the checkmark, then hit delete selected, and poof they are gone!

Anne has been trying to get this done automatically but every time she does, the forums crash, so maybe if some of you take off some of the load it might help?

It means that the forums will stay running smoothly (hopefully this is the reason) according to tech support it is a large part of the problem.

And yes, I will be deleting all my attachments- even the trips!


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WOW , I had no clue how much picture I was posting . So I went and did a few pages , yes pages and delete them . I may have to go again and delete some more . Well I hope it help a little .
 
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hissy

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Every effort helps, and again with the new upgrade it lists the attachments and makes getting rid of them so easy. The photos stored on your own hard drive are not the issue here, simply the ones that are attached to our server are the ones draining the server.
 

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All done! Must I say that having a host programme helps a lot, like photobucket.


Hissy - there is one pic in my user cp that I cannot seem to remove - it is from the paint contest.
 

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Hedi, don't feel bad...I had 6 pages worth!
It's amazing how much space just one person can have, so I'm sure if everyone does this in a joint effort it'll be so much easier on the server!
 

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Originally Posted by Shell

Hedi, don't feel bad...I had 6 pages worth!
It's amazing how much space just one person can have, so I'm sure if everyone does this in a joint effort it'll be so much easier on the server!
I am sure glad I am not alone in that
. I will go in again tomorrow and delete more , I know I need too .
 

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Originally Posted by blondiecat

All done and I am amazed that there was 16 pages
Okay maybe not amazed, but I should be ashamed hogging all that space
My sister the server hog
 

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All done. They were mostly quite old, too, 'cuz these days when I post a picture I link rather than attaching. Hope it helps.
 
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hissy

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Thanks again to all of you who have deleted these attachments. Hopefully more will follow suit.
 

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I have had a look but I have only posted attachments within the last couple of weeks - so I will leave them there for the moment.
I am working on that photo bucket site at the moment so the next time I post a picture it will be link from there
 
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Golly, Hissy -- they sure build up. I had no idea we had posted so many photos. It's Samwise's fault. :}

Jim cleaned out all but the last couple of photos, and he has put a cleanup on a weekly callup.
 

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Well guys, I tried, but I was unable to help in this respect, since I link all of my pics, I have exactly zero attachments! I must say that I have been really pleased with my :censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor: account, you can have 25 photos there for free, or for a 20 dollar onetime fee, can have up to 1000, with NO problems linking them!
 
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OK guys, please keep deleting when you read this message for the first time-



Anne and I thank you-
 
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