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creators

Ringo is closing down.

I've just had an email from Ringo saying they are shutting down on June 30th. The loss of hosting doesn't bother me so much as every picture I've posted here will go down. I'm not sure I am up to the task of going through all my posts and getting the pictures sorted out. That'll be a mere 3458 posts to check then. Oh....... Bother!  
hil26

going to be some blank spaces about, unlees they find someone to take over, which is what happened on one of the other image hosting sites I used a little while ago.
creators

I hope so Dave, but they were pretty adamant in the email because Facebook and MySpace make Ringo a non contender.
creators

I'm gutted really, it's an unmitigated sodding disaster! I shifted to Ringo because I'd used up all the space on one of my web sites and online hosting looked like a good idea. I'm going to download all the pics on Ringo and at least have a go at replacing some of my stuff. It's a bit daunting though.
GREENWIZARD

what's ringo?
creators

This is Ringo.... http://www.ringo.com/profile/creators9.html but not for much longer.
GREENWIZARD

ok
bummer it's closing
the neepster

That's awful - and they don't appear to have any info that they are going to close on their site - which means new members will be unaware of the problem.
the neepster

Re: Ringo is closing down.

creators wrote:
I've just had an email from Ringo saying they are shutting down on June 30th. The loss of hosting doesn't bother me so much as every picture I've posted here will go down. I'm not sure I am up to the task of going through all my posts and getting the pictures sorted out. That'll be a mere 3458 posts to check then. Oh....... Bother!  


Daft question - it is a legitimate email isn't it??
creators

Re: Ringo is closing down.

the neepster wrote:
creators wrote:
I've just had an email from Ringo saying they are shutting down on June 30th. The loss of hosting doesn't bother me so much as every picture I've posted here will go down. I'm not sure I am up to the task of going through all my posts and getting the pictures sorted out. That'll be a mere 3458 posts to check then. Oh....... Bother!  


Daft question - it is a legitimate email isn't it??


Fraid so, I've double checked, I think... Doubt enters the dank, foetid,  recesses of my mind.
creators

Just heard from one of my 'friends' on Ringo, she's in Argentina and wanted to know where I was going and if we could stay in touch. If this is bogus, it's a very effective scam/rumour.
derek

feel sorry for you mate. it's something you don't consider when you upload them. i wouldn't know what to do if photobucket disappeared with all my photos!
creators

It's a total 'expletive deleted'!!!
peteski

If you moved the photos somewhere else, it wouldn't be too hard to write [and I'm happy to do so] a simple find and replace script in SQL to change the links. I am presuming that this forum has a MySQL backend?
creators

peteski wrote:
If you moved the photos somewhere else, it wouldn't be too hard to write [and I'm happy to do so] a simple find and replace script in SQL to change the links. I am presuming that this forum has a MySQL backend?


peteski that would make you the total hero of the hour, seriously if there is a way to pull it off I would be so grateful. It's a total bummer when pictures get lost. I am in the process of downloading all my Ringo pictures in to one folder and then I am going to put them in a forum set on Flickr viewable by forum people only. I assume the names Ringo has given the files will be the same as the existing pictures.

peteski wrote:
I am presuming that this forum has a MySQL backend?


I have no way to answer that question, I'm just a grunt round here, Dave may know or, if not, John certainly will. I'll drop him a line if Dave comes back with a negative. Thanks mate.
hil26

I am unable to anser that immediatley, the board says something about using phpBB, but if you look at

http://forum.myfreeforum.org/index.html

you mayfind the answer - I couldn't but only had a few minutes to look.
creators

I've actually done it, all 762 pictures, all loaded in a forum set on Flickr, phew! I am not sure how to set the privacy level on a set but all the pictures are set to private, view by friends only. To test whether they can be viewed here, here's another random pic. I need to check out the MySQL stuff next.


hil26

Keith

its working on flickr - all imagse I have seen or set as private.

That was some doing
creators

hil26 wrote:

That was some doing


Five hours worth of doing, actually I thought it would take a whole lot longer then that. That raises another issue, my desktop computer is connected to the router by cable and is as slow as ditch water, very frequently not loading the page at all, just hanging, whereas, my laptop, which I ended up doing it on, is wireless connected and is always fast. Anyone got any clues about how I can improve the performance of the desktop?
the neepster

Please can I be your flickr friend  Very Happy
creators

Yai, no worries, my account name is kandlephotography which will aid you in finding me.  Very Happy
creators

Just an update here. It was going to create a mess to have all my forum stuff on my flickr account and to maintain any kind of order there, so I've opened a Photobucket account for forum pictures, I'm in the process of uploading them all.
peteski

Ok, from some digging around, I think this can be acheived.
I'll run up a system and have a play around.

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