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issues with photos (several)

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oh and consider that feature request requested
its extremely important to my site
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

issues with photos (several)

Ning To Jamroom

i was trying to add just the name below it but wasnt successful still somewhat guessing atthe syntax
i assumed identer it after require="profile_photo" i thought possibly profile_name=$profile_name but ill figure that all out later

actualy i think ive got an idea for what id liketo do


is there away to create a default galery and have everything added to it after import
ive got nearly 15,000 members 65,000 photis if i had to go through and assign everything an album on nings side thats going to suck

if theres a way to do a simple find ahnd replace to add an album 'default" to the json before upload
actualy let me see if i cant figure it out abnd add it to the migration tip i just posted
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

migration preperation incremental migration and larger sites tips

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as we prepare to migrate and have uploaded some test data our sites on ning are still active and large sites are bound to have archiving as well as importing issues, so i wanted to make a quick guide on ways to make it less painful

on large ning archives you will most likely get some "unable to write file to disk" errors that stop the archive of that media files section dead and you cant restart it for 24 hours
when this happens step 1 look in the media files folder (ie photos ifyour downloading photos archive) sort by file name wich has a sequential number as a prefix
find the last photo that downloaded'

next in notepad open the local json (ie ning-photos-local.json) it will take a mommentto openj in notepad and might freeze up til its open..and wordwrap will also freeze it up a min or 2 bbut helps in the next step
you will see html code in a very unreadable format but try to find any plain english text as close to the html at the end as you can find
it doesnt matter if its something silly like dude i love your shirt wantto trade
aslong as u select enough that its unique and shouldnt have multiple results
now go to your ning search and search by that text (now that i think of it this is what im doing in discussions abnnd groups its less likely to be a proboem in photos unless its in a comment)
once you find that text block open the link (page comment whatever)
look for the last image u saw that downloaded successfully and right below it should be a broken image,, u can edit it and delete that image..or the whole comment or discussion as u see fit
wait 24 hours and start all over again

ning says they will release a fix that just skips over them..but who kbnows when that will happen the latest word isthe 3.0archiver might still take months "and they call that soon) to complete

now on uploading a large uploaded archive might take days to upload i think mine took 4 or 5 days to upload
then the import takes days because kept havintg server timeouts

if you use litespeed server on apache u have to max out the timeours set everything high as ccan be ..just fir the imoort process you will want to reduce everything around defaults when u go live

once the imports complete the media conversion can take a long time if you have thiusands of songs

now even once u finaly got a full archive your sites active daily
so do a fresh archive

when you ftp select just the json files and choose overwrite
then when you select the media files and it says exists on server overwrite skip or resule choose skip this way only the new files are uploaded
repeat the import it will seem to do nothing for a olong time as its going through the list and saying this already exists (if you turn on error reporting you will see this but it makes it alot slower)

if you do this often when you are ready to migrate and go live all you have to do is swich dns (or name servers)
and your sites live
do 1 final archive and import after you verify the dns propegated worldwide (google global dns propegation test make sure it resolves to new ip)

you want to make sure that everyone in the worlds accessing the new site before doing the final archive to be sure you colect every bit of data

then you can do the final step... say bye bye ning

this incremental approach will make the final upload and import faster and will alow even new members to test out the new site during the pre-migration stages


updated by @soaringeagle: 07/09/16 09:21:02AM

issues with photos (several)

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1 as i said in another post there needs to be a photo galery link in the main menu that shows every photo in every galery as 1 seemless site galery with a featured photos block

2 the > on the right of the full vierw (not lightbox) sends you back to the begining of the list and there is no coresponding next/previos

3 the big 1
photos uploaded by a member while on ning ..that are not stored in an album,.. are nowhere to be found
there needsto be a default that those can be pulled into


there maybe 65,000 images in my galery
but each "galery' wich wsere albulms might only show 4 or 5
and all them together maybe 1,000 or 2,000 with the fast majority orphaned

in my case on ning i had 343 photos on jr i see 5 in 1 'galery" and 4 in another...thats it

the rest are lost in limbo

other notes
profile lists should have minimal info not just an image lie name location (city state counjtry)
maybe gender (not required )

the photo could be 1/2 sized to give space for a 3 line basic info
name (linked to profile ) location and gender (if specified)
avtualy no
just location since some profiles might e just shops not individuals


updated by @soaringeagle: 07/09/16 09:21:02AM

my list of things ning migrators will mkiss

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u found where let me know also can u look at mine on a mobile www.greentechnologyforums.com
on mobile does the menu look and work right

if so i want to add back some code and retest
all the emulaters ive tried seem to be messed up

and i dont got a mobile at all
but i want to move the menu up into the header area to make room for an ad in that space
but dont want to screw up mobile accessibility
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

my list of things ning migrators will mkiss

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i believe the image support for tinymce alows uploading images using the tinymce editor

was that added
is there somwhere it has to be turned on
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

my list of things ning migrators will mkiss

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1 the profile list when you click profiles should have the name below the image, possibly location
2 when doing debug i noticed feilds from old ning profiles like about me and other profile questions i assume we can duplicate those form questions and add ain if exists (new format) else use the imported for an about page

3 there neeeeds to be a top level menu link to a photo galery..not a list of users galleries a combined sequential gallery of allusers

4 optional and low priority for future thought a photo (non flash mobile freindly) slideshow that can be added to front page (featured photos) and profile pages..the profiles photos

otherwise..good job
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

bug report

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no..nothing


i think yiu might be as confused by this as i am

well if u can think of anything ill try it in the morning if not we'll pick upthe debugging then
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

bug report

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yea i looked..nothing and i compared it to the previus version too
nothing

is there anything i can look for in the database
ill try b4 i crash.. 1 sec
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

bug report

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yea found it after grabbing it from ftp
but ..nothing

im stumped and my headspounding
i even took a double dose of melatonin 6 hours ago to knock myself out ansd still stuck here debugging..lol
i hate when i cant figure out a puzzle
updated by @soaringeagle: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM