Strong Bob Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Am I to understand that my PM inbox has been cleaned out permanently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Strong_Bob, we did have a PM conversation about this the other day. Your old one is still intact, but I#d have to go through it and manually copy it across to a new PM and PM it to you. There's no easy way to do it and you said it wasn't that important Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Oh. I've lost all my mail too. As I assume everyone else has. ... Oh well. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Oh. I've lost all my mail too. As I assume everyone else has. ... Oh well. :lol:Indeed. Allold PM's gone. To be honest, this is all because the merge tool didn't have this feature, but also that even if it did, it would have taken me four hours to do the merge plus an extra four hours on the twelve hour testing I did. My weekends just ain't that long :) This shouldn't be an issue ever again unless licenses (which already costs us an annual amount) for this software rise sharply in price. Considering this software used to be free and the creator said on several occasions that it would always be free, please bear in mind that this is always a possibility. Nothing on the web stays the way it is for very long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 There's no easy way to do it and you said it wasn't that important Actually I said quite the opposite. I had some important things in my PM box. Is it possible that my messages may be recovered? Could I just have one particular PM re-sent to me? It should be a big one sent by Lonestar, I forget the title. But it should be the second most recent sent from him. If it'll take hours for just that one, since I have no idea how such a system works, then forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 Shouldn't take too long, but I was under the impression your PM you sent afterwards said it wasn't important. I'm probably wrong though and it's unimportant anyway whether you did or not I'll try and dig it out tomorrow. One shouldn't be too much trouble, it's just if everyone starts requesting the last 20 or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 I don't mind losing the rest so much... I don't remember sending you a PM though... And my sentbox is empty. I must've been real drunk if I did send you one though, because I've been planning to reply to that PM, the one I need, since early December. EDIT: I checked my browser history. I'm certain I didn't send you a PM, unless I did it from another computer, but I would've remembered that. Are you confusing me with someone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 Possibly... I get sonfused easily. It's possible I misread your post the second time around and was answering PM's in another tab in Firefox so I got the wrong end of the stick as well as thinking it was a PM. D'oh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 That makes sense. But you've made me paranoid, I may really have a doppleganger somewhere... *Shifty eyes* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 It's not a doppelganger, it's a bot. As for the site change, I've noticed, that my member number have changed from something around 800 to 200. Do I get it right, that all the old members was assigned numbers in alphabetical order during the shift? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted January 20, 2005 Report Share Posted January 20, 2005 My guess is that XTC members get the lower member numbers, Aftermath members got the higher ones, and a whole bunch of people who never actually posted got chopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 I think not. Just look at the total number of members. Most of them never posted, so I think everebody had been transferred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 Everyone got transferred. I think it went in alphabetical order for the X-COM forums, then I did the Aftermth forums and then I did the Silent Storm forums. All the system did do that was fancy was to not bother porting over members with the same names. Fortunately in this case, that was us admins and regulars who had been to the X-COM and Aftermath forums, so it only copied us over once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footpig Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 Love the new site, all the best for the New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 Thanks Footpig! Pete have done a neat job, and I look forwards to getting the actual site up and running properly as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 Well, alphabetical order half explains things. Of course, Footpig here having a lower member number then Slaughter still confuses me a little. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 Thanx to you guys. It was indeed a great job, that with this shift the forums remained at most intact, with the same good 'ol interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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