HELP US SAVE THE INDEX MOC SHIPS...

[Bonaparte]

Brickshelf will go off-line in 14 days and all the pictures in the Index: MOC ships will be lost if we don't take action immediately !!

How can you help save the INDEX: MOC Ships?

I have created an account on http://photobucket.com

We'll backup the 5 best images from each gallery/ship by saving them on this photobucket account.

The index consists of 33 rows (numbered from 1 to 33).

Each row contains 5 Brickshelf-galleries (lets call those a, b, c, d, e).

So the 3rd ship in row 5 is "5c".

You login, go to the album: pirate-forum>index-ship-mocs (take a few moments to see how it all works once logged in).

Here you must make a "sub-album" for each ship that you will upload. I already did the first row, so you'll already see sub-albums 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e.

Practical example:

When you agree to backup row 2, you'll need to download 5 images from each of the 5 Brickshelf-galleries to your PC. Once that is done, you login at photobucket (with the username/password that I will provide via PM). Click on the sub-album called "index-ship-mocs". Here you create 5 new sub-albums (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e), one for each Brichshelf gallery of row 2. Now move the correct 5 pictures to the each of those new sub-albums (make sure you are inside the correct sub-album when you upload the pics).

Important remarks:

- When downloading the pictures from Brickshelf, make sure you download the actual pictures and not the thumbnails.

- Make sure you are inside the correct sub-album when uploading the pictures to photobucket. A mistake is easily made.

Just reply in this thread which row(s) you want to backup and I'll send you a PM with the username and password of the account on http://photobucket.com.

I you think this is too complicated for you, please don't respond.

Thanks for your help in these dark times !!

B.

EDIT 1: I don't know if 2 users can login in parallel, so maybe you need to wait a bit if you can't login immediately.

EDIT 2: Please wait until I have put your name in the list. People are contacting me via various ways and we don't want to start saving the same row ;-).

EDIT 3: Here's a screenshot to make things a bit clearer:

Once sub-album 3a is created, go inside the sub-album and upload the 5 pics you selected for that ship.

List of the ROWS and who will do backups:

1. Bonaparte - DONE

2. hinckley39 - DONE

3. Holodoc - DONE

4. Copmike - DONE

5. Copmike - DONE

6. Copmike - DONE

7. Copmike - DONE

8. Copmike - DONE

9. Starwars4J

10. Starwars4J

11. Starwars4J

12. Starwars4J

13. Starwars4J

14. Holodoc - DONE

15. Holodoc - DONE

16. Holodoc - DONE

17. Holodoc - DONE

18. hinckley39 - DONE

19. hinckley39 - DONE

20. hinckley39 - DONE

21. hinckley39 - DONE

22. Sinner - DONE

23. ZeekyBoogeyDoog - DONE

24. Sinner - DONE

25. Sinner - DONE

26. Berry Syedow - DONE

27. Berry Syedow - DONE

28. Berry Syedow - DONE

29. Berry Syedow - DONE

30. Berry Syedow - DONE

31. Asuka - DONE

32. Asuka - DONE

33. Asuka - DONE

Edited August 15, 2007 by Bonaparte

[Norrington]

Hmm... What if you have all the photo's of you own ships on you hard-drive? Would they be only eligible for 5 photos, or only ones where we don't know the builder?

[Bonaparte]

Hmm... What if you have all the photo's of you own ships on you hard-drive? Would they be only eligible for 5 photos, or only ones where we don't know the builder?

You can add more pictures of your own ships later. Or we can change the link for your ships to wherever you like. But that will have to wait till August because we are all quite busy right now trying to save what we can.

So Mr. Norrington, do you feel ready to save a row?

[Norrington]

You can add more pictures of your own ships later. Or we can change the link for your ships to wherever you like. But that will have to wait till August because we are all quite busy right now trying to save what we can.

So Mr. Norrington, do you feel ready to save a row?

Perhaps...

"Remember, only YOU can help prevent forest fires the Index of MOC Ships from dissapearing"

[Turaga of Force]

If you want them just save them to a jump drive. If you need help (don't know how to or whatever) email me at turagaofforce@hotmail.com

[avojak]

Try this instead.

http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/downl...Backup_0013.zip

On it, just put in the name of a user, or the I.D. of a user or sub-folder, and let it sit. It'll download it for you.

(Thanks to Shadowviking on MCN for this link, who in turn got it from stuifzand on Classic Castle!) :-D

Edited July 17, 2007 by avojak

[Siegfried]

I volunteer for a row, any row.

[ZeekyBoogeyDoog]

I volunteer for a row, any row.

Same here!

[ZCerberus]

I would like to help but I wouldn't be able to even try to do it until next Thursday or Friday. If you have trouble filling all the slots before then, I will do a row or two.

What are we doing about the LAND index???

Edited July 18, 2007 by ZCerberus

[Bonaparte]

I volunteer for a row, any row.

Thanks!

I've put your name up for row 22.

PM send with username/pwd

Same here!

*y*

That's row 23.

PM Send!

I would like to help but I wouldn't be able to even try to do it until next Thursday or Friday. If you have trouble filling all the slots before then, I will do a row or too.

What are we doing about the LAND index???

Thanks Z.

We'll see where we are on Thursday.

Once we have the ships saves, we'll be looking at the land based.

[Berry Syedow]

Sign me up for the next five available rows.

[Siegfried]

Finished 22. I can do another one (or two) if you want.

[Mister Phes]

You lads are a tremendous job and Bonaparte is a legend for organising this *y*

[Bonaparte]

Finished 22. I can do another one (or two) if you want.

You did a perfect job with row 22 !

I've assigned two more rows to you (row 24 and row 25).

Sign me up for the next five available rows.

Wow, 5 rows! Thanks Berry.

The rows are 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

I'll send a PM with the username/password of the photobucket-account.

You lads are a tremendous job and Bonaparte is a legend for organising this *y*

Thanks Mr. Phes.

But we still have 3 rows without a name...

Can I put yours on one of those ;-)

Edited July 18, 2007 by bonaparte

[Mister Phes]

Possibly next week...

You lads have seen the MOCpages to offer (free) image hosting thread yet?

[Asuka]

But we still have 3 rows without a name...

Can I put yours on one of those ;-)

I

[Bonaparte]

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[Mister Phes]

There will be more Brickshelf Folders for me next week I take it...

[Bonaparte]

There will be more Brickshelf Folders for me next week I take it...

Most certainly...

Once this is done, we still need a solution for the other indexes.

I'll start thinking what we can do for those.

However, the torso library and sail index are already saved and stored on my personal webspace.

Our pirate regulator, Mr. Phred, is taking care of the cannon and accessories index.

He also did a backup of all the pictorial reviews.

So we're making progress...

[Asuka]

But for the moment there seem to be some problems with BS.

So we'll have to be a bit patient and pray it will work long enough to save the pictures.

I am not able to see the pics of my rows or to get a correct and working link with

the current Ship MOCs index. It seems like someone changed the adresses to https,

which don

[Bonaparte]

I am not able to see the pics of my rows or to get a correct and working link with

the current Ship MOCs index. It seems like someone changed the adresses to https,

which don

Edited July 18, 2007 by bonaparte

[ZeekyBoogeyDoog]

Finished.

[Bonaparte]

Finished.

Thanks. Perfect job!

We are still waiting for Starwar4J, Sinner, Berry Syedow and Asuka.

Once they are done, all those beautiful ships will be rescued.

Here's the overview that I added in the first post:

1. Bonaparte - DONE

2. hinckley39 - DONE

3. Holodoc - DONE

4. Copmike - DONE

5. Copmike - DONE

6. Copmike - DONE

7. Copmike - DONE

8. Copmike - DONE

9. Starwars4J

10. Starwars4J

11. Starwars4J

12. Starwars4J

13. Starwars4J

14. Holodoc - DONE

15. Holodoc - DONE

16. Holodoc - DONE

17. Holodoc - DONE

18. hinckley39 - DONE

19. hinckley39 - DONE

20. hinckley39 - DONE

21. hinckley39 - DONE

22. Sinner - DONE

23. ZeekyBoogeyDoog - DONE

24. Sinner

25. Sinner

26. Berry Syedow

27. Berry Syedow

28. Berry Syedow

29. Berry Syedow

30. Berry Syedow

31. Asuka

32. Asuka

33. Asuka

[Berry Syedow]

I've finished saving the five rows I claimed. Before I upload them to photo-bucket, would it be alright if I resized the images that are too large and cropped the ones with excessive empty space?

[Asuka]

X-D

Mr. Asuka, ready for report:

Download completed.

Row 31: All safe.

Row 32: No. 4 and No. 5 are not on BS, so I left them untouched and only safed the rest.

Row 33, the last and an uncomplete one: No. 1 and No. 2 are safe, No. 3 is not on BS

and remained untouched. No more numbers in that row.

Upload will start in the next two days.

Mr. Asuka, over and out.

*sad*