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[edit] Images

A number of images have completely disappeared. The files are still there..but . An error message also comes up when you try to delete them. You try. (It isn't just in the Category:Emoticons either.)  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 12:29, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Similarly File:Flag_-_Spain.png, click for the full res version, and it's not there :[ ∃cho⚡ierr∀ ( ☏ • ⎋ • ⌫) 14:12, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Ohhhhh that's not cool :(. At one point during the upgrade, I did an 'rsync' (which is a command which tries to make a directory on one server the same as it is on another) essentially backwards from the API server (which only has the images as basically a backup) to the main webserver. This was intentional since the API server had the new code and SHOULD have had all of the images since normally there is an automatic rsync from the main webserver to the API server every two hours. It started issuing a TON of delete commands though and I stopped it from doing that after a minute or so. Most of the time was spent deleting things from the /deleted directory (which is no big deal), but it looks like it caught some others too. Not sure why it would have been sending delete commands unless somehow I had deleted some images on the API server manually. I guess I must have at some point.

Long story short: I probably messed up during the upgrade. On the bright side, I made a backup of all of the images not too long ago and I should be able to get the vast majority of them back from that.

Oops! :[

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 17:04, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Turns out that the backup was taken on February 14th, 2009. Anything that got deleted, but was first added AFTER that date will still be missing. Fortunately that's only 2 months ago and the site has been up for more than 36 months, so this restoration should fix about 95% of the missing files if all goes as planned.

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 17:31, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

The restore seems to have gone well. Both of the images referenced now show up. I'm not sure of how many images were deleted that were not restored, but hopefully very few. In retrospect, the actual window of images that are still missing would be between when the backup was taken and whenever it was that I did a manual delete (don't know when or why) on the API server. It's entirely possible that the delete was done right after the backup because that would have been the last time I was messing with the files. Here's hoping!

If anyone sees any more missing images, please let me know. If it appears there are still some images missing, I can write a script which could go through every image in the database and make sure that it's on the server.

Thanks for the info guys!

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 18:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Here's a missing one. The thumbnail on the album page is still there, though. — 6x9 (Talk) 19:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Argh. :P. So I looked into it and there are about 2559 images uploaded between when the backup was made and when the upgrade was done. I'm still assuming that not ALL of those are deleted. It is time to find out...

-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 00:23, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

NUMBER MISSING: 143

FIRST MISSING: 20090214013053

LAST MISSING: 20090411081940

Figuring out what to do about those soon... -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 11:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

List of missing images. -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

They all look to be album covers so if you can batch delete them it will be as if they never even existed ;) I'm sure they can be uploaded again anyways. They certainly aren't any good as they are.  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 17:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Please note: number 64, 83 & 84 are flags.    RainbowDragon    talk    contribs   18:19, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks RD. I deleted the 3 flag files and re-uploaded them. All is well.  ♫_♫Яєd_{xx ♪}♫♪_♫♪ ^Actions _Words 18:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Think these are fixed:

Items here are things we think are fixed but could use some help from other people to double-check: