Disappearing photos
A few weeks ago I noticed some photos didn't appear on older posts. Now i know it's a lot worse that just one or two.
Anything before 8th Nov 2009 has a web address like this - http://www.anarchadia.co.uk/uploaded_images/DSCF7249-738261.JPG - if I hover over the black space where an image should be. Click on it and I get the 404 URL not found message.
Anything after this date has an address like this - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_
fT8ad5hT86c/SwWzgVvNrtI/ AAAAAAAAAF0/egi0Syyh76s/s1600/ DSCF8227.JPG. Click on the image and up comes the enlarged photo, just like used to happen to all my pictures back in the good old days.
Anything before 8th Nov 2009 has a web address like this - http://www.anarchadia.co.uk/uploaded_images/DSCF7249-738261.JPG - if I hover over the black space where an image should be. Click on it and I get the 404 URL not found message.
This Cornish engine house at Luckett has not disappeared - yet. By the time you read this I hope to have restored the photos on this blog |
Anything after this date has an address like this - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_
The blogger help forum is full of people moaning about similar problems, a lot of them citing problems with Picasa. However, I load my pictures from my PC. From other advice on the forum, I suspect there's been an account change and that the photos are now irretrievable.
I have no recollection of an account change. I'm reluctant to do much more blogging if something can arbitrarily change like this - and boy do I have some good stuff for you!
I don't want to restore 400 posts worth of images individually, either.
Nobody from Blogger seems to be saying anything about this on the help forum.
Engine Punk is my little "notes to self" about obscure stuff, so I feel I'm missing out on some weird stuff that probably doesn't appear anywhere else on the net.
What is the point continuing this blog if some geek somewhere makes a change - or recommends a change to me if it was me who did this - without appreciating that I can lose so much visual content?
Doesn't bode well for the digital future of cloud computing, does it?
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