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| #Post#: 104-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Jack Date: September 15, 2017, 4:54 am | |
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| If you go to Google and look up a topic, then go to | |
| 'settings/advanced search' and enter branstomtx.forumotion.net | |
| as the site, it will pull up artlces and information from the | |
| old forum. If, at the end of the URL, there is a small, downward | |
| triangle, that means that Google has at least part of that | |
| information cached. Click on that triangle, select cache, and | |
| you can look at what they have. I can't tell if they have all | |
| or part of it, but it's definitely another way to recover more | |
| information,and it looks like they have more than WAYBACK does. | |
| #Post#: 105-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: db105 Date: September 15, 2017, 5:06 am | |
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| Yes, although unlike the Wayback Machine, the Google cache is | |
| not permanent. It will soon be overwritten as their web crawler | |
| gets to those addresses again for an updated version. | |
| I plan to do some exploring tonight to see if I can save some | |
| recent Anecdotes stuff that is not included in Leti's files. | |
| Speaking of Leti's files, I asked her to send me a copy | |
| yesterday and it's a huge amount of information most of which | |
| would have been lost otherwise. It's not completely updated so | |
| that a few of the last month's info is not included, but there's | |
| an awful lot, the text of years and years of Bransom relevant | |
| posts by Jack from Anecdotes, Blog, BOTD extras, Biographies... | |
| The info about spankings is there, and also non-spanking posts | |
| with info about the boys. Other Bransom posts not directly | |
| related to a boy or group of boys may not be included. In any | |
| case, while not a complete backup of the forum, those files are | |
| a treasure. I converted the text backups from Leti's excel | |
| format to a couple of big text files, in case you are | |
| interested, Jack. If you don't want to use the Excel files | |
| directly and don't want to make the conversion yourself I could | |
| send it to you as doc, rtf or HTML files if you want, and you | |
| could put it on your site so that a lot of the info from the old | |
| forum is again available for the community. | |
| #Post#: 107-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Zac Date: September 15, 2017, 5:19 am | |
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| What parts of the old forum have the highest priority for | |
| recovery? | |
| I tried accessing the google-cached version and it did work for | |
| except that I wasn't logged and trying to log in just brought up | |
| ad fly :( | |
| However I have completely cleared to cache and reinstalled my | |
| browser since the last time I was on the old site. Other people | |
| might still be logged in. | |
| #Post#: 108-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: db105 Date: September 15, 2017, 5:37 am | |
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| [quote author=Zac link=topic=13.msg107#msg107 date=1505470778] | |
| What parts of the old forum have the highest priority for | |
| recovery? | |
| I tried accessing the google-cached version and it did work for | |
| except that I wasn't logged and trying to log in just brought up | |
| ad fly :( | |
| However I have completely cleared to cache and reinstalled my | |
| browser since the last time I was on the old site. Other people | |
| might still be logged in. | |
| [/quote] | |
| No, Zac, the old forum is gone. You (or anybody else) won't be | |
| able to log in or be still logged in in any way. Only threads in | |
| the public part of the site will be available on the google | |
| cache or the wayback machine, because they are backups external | |
| to the old forum. | |
| Also, when you open a forum page in the google cache, don't | |
| follow any link in that forum page. That will take you to the | |
| current version of the linked address, which is of course the | |
| adfly garbage. You need to go back to google and open another | |
| cached page from there. The Wayback Machine is different: you | |
| can click links in the forum pages saved there and it will take | |
| you to a Wayback Machine backup of the destination if it's | |
| available. Unfortunately the Wayback Machine backups are very | |
| skimpy, and most threads are not available there. | |
| About priorities, Jack will say better than me. Regarding Jack's | |
| Bransom posts, my idea was trying to see if I could find in the | |
| Google cache some recent stuff (from the last few months) that | |
| is not in Leti's files (which are not completely updated). We | |
| will not be able to get that recent information from the Wayback | |
| Machine, because their 2017 backup is awfully small, and directs | |
| you to 2016 versions of the threads. Therefore Google cache is | |
| the only hope to find any of that. | |
| I haven't looked at all at the advent calendars and stuff like | |
| that. I don't know if Jack has copies of those stories or if he | |
| would like us to try to recover some of those. | |
| Yesterday I was looking to see if I could save from google cache | |
| some info posted by David Katz about his family. I saved some | |
| posts, but there is plenty that can't be found in google cache. | |
| By the way, I don't know if you guys remember the series of | |
| posts about his family that CHRIS made many years ago (the | |
| "patter of little feet" threads). I have discovered that I have | |
| a copy of those in my computer, so that is saved. | |
| Anyway, although the loss of information will be bad, I have to | |
| say that thanks to Leti's impressive backup of relevant Bransom | |
| posts it will be much, much, much less than I expected when I | |
| realized that the old forum was gone for good. | |
| #Post#: 109-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Leti Date: September 15, 2017, 6:27 am | |
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| Hola Daniel, I have the Advent, Christmas,Easter, Halloween, | |
| stories, I have then in PDF. | |
| I will look in Google to see what I can find. | |
| Hugs | |
| Leti | |
| #Post#: 115-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Zyngaru Date: September 15, 2017, 1:10 pm | |
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| [quote author=Jack link=topic=13.msg104#msg104 date=1505469261] | |
| If you go to Google and look up a topic, then go to | |
| 'settings/advanced search' and enter branstomtx.forumotion.net | |
| as the site, it will pull up artlces and information from the | |
| old forum. If, at the end of the URL, there is a small, downward | |
| triangle, that means that Google has at least part of that | |
| information cached. Click on that triangle, select cache, and | |
| you can look at what they have. I can't tell if they have all | |
| or part of it, but it's definitely another way to recover more | |
| information,and it looks like they have more than WAYBACK does. | |
| [/quote] | |
| Take the "t" out of brans"t"omtx.forumotion.net or you get no | |
| results. | |
| #Post#: 116-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Zyngaru Date: September 15, 2017, 1:16 pm | |
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| Okay. I got there. Now how do you save what you find. | |
| I tried right clicking but it doesn't have a save option? | |
| Edit: | |
| I found I can save in (Website HTML only) by using the gear icon | |
| in upper right corner and can retrieve it afterward. | |
| Will that work? | |
| #Post#: 117-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Zyngaru Date: September 15, 2017, 1:24 pm | |
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| I just found a thread about "Pop Test". I am going to have to | |
| go find that story and read it. | |
| I found "On Spanking: Paddles." | |
| #Post#: 118-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: db105 Date: September 15, 2017, 1:47 pm | |
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| [quote author=Zyngaru link=topic=13.msg116#msg116 | |
| date=1505499362] | |
| I found I can save in (Website HTML only) by using the gear icon | |
| in upper right corner and can retrieve it afterward. | |
| Will that work? | |
| [/quote] | |
| Yes, if you get to a page you want to save, saving as HTML is | |
| fine. That way save a copy of the page in your local computer. | |
| #Post#: 119-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Important Announcement about Missing Information | |
| By: Zyngaru Date: September 15, 2017, 2:31 pm | |
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| My clicking finger is sore, but I saved 85 items off of the 10 | |
| pages of Google cache that I have. | |
| They are in HTML. | |
| I didn't discriminate. If it had a triangle I saved it. Then | |
| you guys when you try to rebuild can go through and use what is | |
| missing from Leti's backups and store the duplicates in case | |
| needed some other time. | |
| If you know of other pages that need to be copied, let me know | |
| and I will exercise my clicking finger some more. | |
| There was some 2017 pages in the cache. A couple of Jacks | |
| spanking implements pages, I remember seeing. Some BOTD pages. | |
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