Some Migrated Blogs Missing Pictures
Ning To Jamroom
Hi Paul,
Given what you are saying, I may have an explanation, or at least a clue.
In the original Ning discussions there was a place for file attachments at the bottom. So one could upload a PDF and reference it, as was the case with "Paul's Haircut". I guess Ning treated it as part of the discussion, and included it in the archive.
There was a second way to include a file, and that was an editor tool (tinyMCE box) that uploaded the file and you referenced it as a link. It was "hidden" except for the link, the first technique produced a visible and separate file attachment view at the bottom of the post.
Perhaps what we are seeing, is that the "hidden" PDF's referenced by the second technique, were as you say "inaccessible".
The only problem I have with that explanation, is the missing files were found in the Ning_Archive discussion folder. That tells me they were accessed, and in fact downloaded then uploaded with the archive.
So, that leaves the question as to why the "a" links were not pointing to them, but instead looking like this:
http://indiegospel.org/forum/attachment/download?id=1706554%3AUploadedFile%3A100941#sthash.1YW3vAIF.dpuf
I can manually relink the files on my own posts, but if you bring over a big site, this may become an issue. I don't understand it at this point, because the files transferred but the new "a" links to them were not good.
It seems to me, whatever is forming the new "a" links must be the culprit but this stuff is way out of my league. I can only tell you what I am seeing.
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