I don’t recall if this was announced on our forum recently, but the drop-dead date for railimages transfer of your old photos to the new railimages/trainboard site is the middle of April, the 15th, I believe.
If you don’t have a need for them, do nothing. If those reduced file format photos are all you have left of now buried layouts and other MRR achievements, then you should move them or copy them to your hard drive. Railimages has instructions on how to move them all in one go, but you’ll need a PhD in linguistics, and an MSc in computer science to withstand the pages of instructions and still be motivated to do it.
For those who are new at this, and would like to post photos to this forum, you need an account with a third-party server that operates 24/7, a webhost, such as photobucket.com or rialimages. You’ll need to sign up, free, and then wait until they enable your account. Once done, you can upload reduced/resized files, and then post links to those images in your text-boxes as you type messages.
I realize that this will not be news to most folks here, but I would like to extend the service of giving a heads-up to the busier folks in our membership, and to those lurkers and new folks to whom this would be useful news.
You didn’t mention that you can post photos from any website. I don’t have one of the railimages type accounts; instead I just post photos from my own website. (That’s why it’s usually so long between Weekend Photo Fun postings for me - I update my website only every few months).
I’ll probably just save the largest-sized copies to my local disk one-at-a-time, then move them to Photobucket. I haven’t added anything to Railimages for the past 18 months.
I just used the third-party software program that Railimages suggested (HTTrack Website Copier - ~4MB) to download my pictures from the old site. It wasn’t too bad. (Took ~40 minutes to download 94 photos on dialup.) The instructions were fairly straightforward to follow. When I have time I’ll upload all or some of them to the new site.
I understand that if you can figure out how to get them into a zip file, the process is much easier. I believe if you right click on a selected file, you can choose … SEND TO a zip(compressed) file. I’m sure many files can be zipped into one. Then the new RI program knows how to unzip them.
After several futile attempts to follow their instructions to move my photos to their new site; I tried just re-uploading them. That didn’t work either, despite several attempts. [:(!] [banghead]
Finally I gave up and just uploaded photos to my photobucket site. Nary a problem there. [:)]
You’d think they’d come up with a simpler or at least more efficient way of moving the files. [:(!] [sigh]
Tmothy, that was my experience the first time I uploaded to the new site. Just last night, after about eight months had passed, I successfully uploaded eight or more resized photos from my hard-drive. The site doesn’t seem to like to do its own resizing like the old railimages would. So, I have taken to doing it myself, and had no real issues.
