Ooo . . I just found the ‘flag’ option and marked one as SPAM. (There’s a flag in the stuff bottom right of your posts.)
I’ve run into a few oddities when reviewing older posts (Thanks to the Activity list).
One post referred to a video, but there wasn’t even a broken link. I just did an edit and inserted the correct URL to the video. Most others have the Vimeo tagline, but no broken link. Those are easy because the correct URL is in th Vimeo tagline - just copy & paste the URL and it’s fixed.
Most of my recent threads show the pictures, but I did find some older threads with broken external picture links. Odd part on the broken ones is the links are prefixed with dimensions and then have the link as http:\www.lsc.cvsry.com which is wrong. Removing the size formatting, changing the type to https: and fixing the url to remove www. gets the pictures to show.
Thanks for the details, Jon! The only reason I gave Bob a pointer to that post is that he seems to have updated all old embed to be new style, but I’m not seeing that. I have no problem at all going back and redoing my videos, if that’s what is necessary. But figured Bob would appreciate the heads up.
Sounds like maybe some of the picture conversion logic is a bit touchy eh?
Bob, as usual, I offer my services but suspect it would take longer to get me set up than for you to fix the stuff you want to fix (or declare bankruptcy and let us fix it manually).
The more I look at older threads, the more I find with broken picture links. The latest I found didn’t have the extra www. but still had the formatting information which breaks the link. This is how I found the pictures listed…
Interestingly, other pictures in the same thread did move over properly. In the post that displays correctly, the pictures are listed…
Which appears to me that they were moved from my server to Bobs host.
Yea, I just built a local copy of the old LSC database and Im going to find that post and see what is in the body to see why it completely threw the code away…
While you are tracking stuff down, I just ran into the Consecutive Reply Limit on a thread. I have been posting my Servo Controlled Turnout progress in GAP’s thread: Servo controlled turnouts/points - #48 by JRad
Just went to post my latest progress and got told that I can’t reply to that thread until someone else does.
This limit makes sense and I don’t suggest you remove it. Could you, or someone post a quick reply so I can post my updates?
From any page, type ‘=’ (equal sign) and the menu appears. “Keyboard Shortcuts” button available in the lower right corner.
Interesting:
Number of posts a user has to make in a row in a topic before being prevented from adding another reply.
Currently set to 3. I guess that’s some kind of spam prevention.
Found this in the old forums and fixed the thread.
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I hate to nag. Here’s another one in the same topic.
I sure don’t want you to fix these one-by-one. I can do that. Is there some more general way to fix these? Anything I can do to help?
It looks like the only thing missing in the posts is the actual video. I haven’t come across a post where text is missing as well.
You should be able to just edit your post and insert the video url again. If you dont know the vide URL, I can find it in the old DB. I just looked, and there’s 7,824 posts with video links in them. 
So is that the guidance then? We should all go reinsert our videos manually?
(That’s fine if that’s the answer, just making sure since you were at one point hoping to do this automagically).
Well, I want to write a script to do it automatically, its on my list, but I just need the time to do it.
No rush. I’m fine with it taking however long. And if I can write a script to help just let me know (send me an example input and output and I can generate some Ruby to do it).
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Just looked at “Keyboard Shortcuts” and found you can pop it up directly with “?” (question mark).
Bob,
My thread:
“DCC++EX (new site insists on 8 character titles...)”
posts 102 & 103 used to point to photos on my website. I went to edit them and found absolutely no URL there - no idea what they specifically used to point at?
If/when you have the time if you could look up the original URL it would be appreciated.
Not complaining or anything, I have notices a lot of my post’s pictures were missing, and since I am computer dummy could someone message or email me how to restore them , or just hunt them down and replace them. my emaill is [email protected]. Thanks Pete
Can you post an example of a thread where they are missing?
Nevermind, found a couple. Ill dig them up.
I was visiting and looked at the Mylocosound Premium Diesel thread, then the ‘Guest Power on the Triple O’ thread, and both had links that did not open in a new window - both preempted the current thread.
Is this normal? Is there an option we should set to force it to open in another window/tab?