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For this reason is my first intention saving the sets for the right order of the pictures. Then I am able to restore those sets of storytelling, which are important for me ... if I want, I can use a new uploader and make new links with the pictures, which I have on my hd.
The best would be akind of migration from the old uploader to a new one with the old links ...
The old provider told me this:
"Es gibt von unserer Seite aus leider keine Möglichkeit, die Bilder zu
retten. in persönlicher Tipp von mir wäre, nach einem
Programmierer/Webentwickler zu suchen, der ein Skript schreibt, das die
auf abload.de gehosteten Bilder auf euren Seiten automatisch ausfindig
macht, auf einen anderen/eigenen Speicher lädt und die Verlinkungen
austauscht, sofern das rechtlich usw. in Frage kommt. Weitere
Informationen kann ich dazu aber leider nicht geben.
Tut mir leid, dass ich keine besseren Nachrichten habe"
"Unfortunately there is no way from our side to view the imagesrescue. A personal tip from me would be to look for oneLooking for a programmer/web developer to write a script that...Images hosted on abload.de are automatically located on your pagesmakes, loads it onto another/own memory and the linksexchanged if this is legally possible etc. MoreUnfortunately I cannot provide any information about this.Sorry I don't have better news"
Now i´m searching for an IT specialist, who can do this.
After one week of thinking, I came to the result, that this situation will be the possibily to restart. I think tjat I can save my stories for myself on my hd, but it is too time consuming to recreate the old stuff..Better is, to use the time for looking forward..Playing a new game and sharing new things.
Thanks a lot for your empathy
I hope to. After saving all works as pdf's I have two month to find a solution ...
to know, that you feel with me, means a lot.
I made a sticky post about my intentions.
As far, it was a great help, that I found a way to store the collections on my hd. I do it on the way, which told John. I make pdf's.
This needs a lot of time.
The next step, will be, to restore the most important collections.
Perhaps I find a image hoster, who has a general idea to transfer my pics?
That would be the easy part... because you would also need to change all the pages on Nexus as well, to point to the new service.
As you know, I am really busy right now. BUT if nobody gives you a better solution, please let me know in a few weeks. It seems like you could turn off bbcode on Nexus, copy the raw bbcode data, and run that text through something that would replace the abload.de site with whatever your new one is, than paste it back into the nexus page. I am not sure if that made sense or not - and it would still be a lot of work... but it would be an option. I am really scared now to look and see how many image sets you have made over the years... Checking... oh! Over 1200!
Hopefully somebody has a better idea. But if nobody does, let me know in a few weeks and I will think more on this. Your work and images are way too important to lose.
The important thing for now, is to make sure you have all of your images from abload.de safely on your HDD/SSD if you do not already.
This makes me very sad.
cmh
I made a sticky post to explain, how my situation is at the moment.
For first I will save the postes to save the order of the pics. Then I have to reupload every single pic witha new provider ... this needs a lot of time ... or ... I find someone, who can transcripts the old with new links before I loose everything ....
So I have a question for you, using O Fortuna as an example:
That image page has 9 images. The images have the following file names:
20230923225654_11id92.jpg
20230923225424_1wnie5.jpg
20230923225233_1afdx5.jpg
20230923225950_1rzf2f.jpg
20230923225544_13weqw.jpg
20230923230148_1h0f5z.jpg
20230923225617_16mewv.jpg
20230923230358_1ppcoy.jpg
So my question is, are those names that you created, or are those names that abload.de assigned to your images when you uploaded them?
I would guess that those are names that abload.de assigned to them. If they are your names things are simpler.
If they are not your names, we would need to find a way to download all of them with the abload.de generated names.
The next step would be to upload them to a new service, and this is the really important part of my suggested process. You need to find a service that allows you to upload images with your names, not something they generate. Then things are relatively simple - but still a lot of work. By simple, I mean the process below is simple to use, once you understand it and do it a few times.
If you find a new service that will let you upload using your names, then all you need to do is to change the front part of the image links on Nexus. For example, if you find a new service called mynewimageservice.de and when you upload your images they end up in a folder called blackmaid, the new link for each image might be something like:
https://mynewimageservice.de/user/blackmaid/imagename.jpg
In that case, using one of the images in the example set, you would need to change the old link into the new link on the nexus page, to change the link from
https://abload.de/img/20230923225338_1lwezi.jpg
to
https://mynewimageservice.de/user/blackmaid/20230923225338_1lwezi.jpg
and then to repeat that for each image. BUT we can do that a different and easier way... safer too so you aren't typing them all in.
What you would do is to Edit your image set on Nexus, click the BBCODE button to see the raw bbcode version of your image set. You would copy all of that bbcode text into something like notepad or another text editor. Then you would do a replace function to change all occurences of:
https://abload.de/img/
to
https://mynewimageservice.de/user/blackmaid/
Finally, you would copy the now modified bbcode text with your changes back into your nexus page for the set, replacing the old bbcode with your new version. When you click the bbcode button again, you will get the preview with the images to make sure it worked. If so, you would save the set normally.
But that all depends on you finding a service that allows you to upload images without changing the actual file names of each image.
And being able to download all your existing images from abload.de
If abload.de doesn't give you that ability, and you don't have the images on your computer with the file names that you used on Nexus, there are other ways of doing that. The browser firefox has an addon called DownThemAll that allows you to download all the images on a web page. To avoid downloading all the user images in your comments, you could use a filter to only download abload.de images, or maybe do it while editing your image set in Nexus while in preview mode, meaing the way it is before you press that bbcode button. After downloading all the images for the set, you would upload them to your new service, and then do the above process to translate the link information for the new service. And then repeat it for each image set you want to keep working. That process can continue as you have time. But if you need to download all the images with the abload.de generated name, you would need to do that before the end of June, obviously.
Once again, this all depends on finding a new image hosting site that keeps your image names unchanged from what you upload.
Okay, that is probably very confusing, or maybe not - I don't know your skill set, and I am not sure I am explaining this well.
I can give you a visual tutorial on how to do this if you are not familiar with the raw bbcode version of image sets. I always create my image sets in raw bbcode, but I may be the only one that does that!
If any of that makes sense, and it is something you want a visual tutorial of, please let me know and I will try to do one.
Sorry for this situation you are in!
cmh
I'm sure people have already given you good solutions or some hints for help, but if I was in the same situation I would first look at the image site where you store your images and see if they can be downloaded back to your harddrive. If so, you could simply copy and paste all your stories from the Nexus and add them to a file along with the correct set of images. It would of course not keep them up on Nexus, but it would give you an opportunity to upload them again with the full texts.
I keep copies of all my images on my harddrive already together with any texts I've included in the set, but I'm also quite organised like that and do the same with my writing with lots of folders and sub-folders on the harddrive. This doesn't help you though, but perhaps a thing to keep in mind for the future?
I do hope you get some help or a speedy solution, otherwise all you can do is download all the material again so that you at least can have it intact on your PC/external drive/USB memory/etc.
Sorry I can't be of any better help in this, Heike.
The best and fastest thing I can do is saving every post/story fastly as pdf. In this way, I can see the order of the pics ( which I have on my hd). So, the stories will be save on my hd but it is a lot of work and time to recover everthing again with new links.
I think, I will do it for some special stories, but the other things will disappear.
Or ... there is an IT specialist, who knows, how to transfer old links to a new provider.
As always ... the hope will never die
Is this the type of thing you are looking for?
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/doje7apjm3wtsrguiwx8g/I-need-help-at-Skyrim-Nexus-Mods-and-Community.pdf?rlkey=4l3oviqyowxdu775ai8l1abh8&st=lfdh85u4&dl=0
If so, then I can help you.
I made a sticky post for better explanation of my problem.
First thing is at the moment solved.
I convert the posts to pdf and store them on my hd.
The second idea, to save the posts for the community, is much more difficult :cry:
I really don't like having to say this but I believe the suggestion in your sticky may not be possible - unless the specialist works for Nexusmods.
To do what is suggested, you would need access to three databases - Nexus Image Share, your current image host and your new image host. I haven't done any programming in the last 10 years and so, I know there have been advances since I was writing ETL (extract, transfer, load) programs with the SQL language. It may be possible for a web programmer to create a script/program to do something like logging you in to both image hosts and copying or transferring your images from the old host to the new host. But, you are also going to need to interface with the Nexus' database. This is the part that makes it nearly impossible.
I asked (on the Nexus Support forum) about whether there was an API (Application Programming Interface) for the Image Share and there doesn't appear to be one. You would need an API to, essentially, mimic the login, read and write to the Image Share database that you can now do manually. I'm guessing that Nexusmods has some proprietary method for this, so that's why I said you may need your specialist to be an employee of Nexusmods.
Since you are now making PDFs to save the images in the proper sequence, my suggestion would be this: Copy/store the PDFs in the cloud somewhere (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) and then just provide a link to the PDF in the "about this image" section - like I did in the first response. For your most favorite posts, edit them manually to replace the images from the old host with the ones from the new host.
Of course, I could be completely wrong about everything, so keep looking for that specialist.
Regardless, do you already have all the PDFs made? If not, I can help you create them and then share/send them to you.
I really wish someone would find a positive solution to your problem.
You will see and "hear", what will happen.
Wish you a witchy night
It is Walpurgisnacht ... a very special night ;I
I was determined, however, to save all my Skyrim stories of Grimulfr Fenrirson and his adventures. I went into each Nexus post, before the images were gone, and saved everything into a PDF files. Each story post, with images, was saved as a PDF. I then combined them into books by chapters and currently have them as downloadedable PDF's on nexus with my own back up copies.
It took a lot of work, and a friend helped me in the process, but saved my main stories at least. Only thing I can think of. Not perfect as the images were reduced in the PDF files, but at least the text, smaller images, and stories were saved.
Can you tell it step by step?
You can hold CTL and press A to select everything on the page too and then paste it.
It will be a lot of work, but then not all is completely lost and I can restore is, if I want and have the time
I save mine as HTML's.
I also made a test where I saved an older set and then deleted the linked pictures on IMGUR as well as the whole set here on Nexus.........and I can look at it (online, as well as offline).
Does anybody know if there is something wrong with this method?
I prefer this as it keeps the appearance of the site.
I would appreciate your opinions as I want to help BlackMaid with this colossal task.
It is a great idea though if Heikie isn't worried about the extra files saved and structure. It will save the comments and everything as well, and is far faster to just "save as html" then doing a PDF with word. This might be quicker and simpler for her. Just have to be careful about maintaining the structure of everything if moving around. Not a big deal really.
Another plus is the images are downloaded from the original site in the saving process so you get to keep the original image - well the one used in the link anyhow - which I think would be a plus for Heiki.
it is only a personal preference that I wanted it in a self-contained PDF format. Simply made managing better plus I wanted to combine them all into a sort of "book" format, which wouldn't work if I were maintaining the nexus formatting. I needed to clean things up.
For Heikie I don't think this is needed, just a desire to save the post themselves as is seems more important.
I know about the additional stuff and fully understand that this would be too much ballast for you and only a hindrance to what you want to do with it - but I had to ask since I was wondering why no one here suggested doing it as HTML's.
You seem to be skilled with all this IT stuff - can you imagine any scenario where an HTML would be 'unreadable'?
Except for messing up the content of the added file - is there a chance that it will not be usable in future?
For example: is it depending on a special Browser format or operation system?
I can't imagine a reason but I am only an average user without a deeper understanding of the matter.
Again - Thank you so much!
Browsers change but not so drastically or quickly that I see a problem. Eventually but by that time I don't think it will matter for this use case scenario. Who knows if a PDF will last that long for that matter. Tech changes rapidly. Still I think for this scenario saving as HTML is the best method myself. It may require more disk space and don't know if that is a concern or not. I would also suggest planning out the main folder structure before hand to keep things organized and minimize broken links if things need to be moved.
Total made up example here:
:Master Folder
-> Character One
-> All files and folders
-> Character Two
And so on and so on. Or maybe group by year/date. Or story set. Or simply have a master folder then make a subfolder for every individual nexus post saved, perhaps by game like:
:Master Folder
-> Skyrim
-> 2024-01-19
-> 2024-02-23
-> etc.
-> Fallout 4
-> 2023-10-17
Whatever, what matters is to have some organization planned out in advance. My advice anyhow but I am rather OCD about being organized lol :P
I made PDF files as they are super compact and easy to share - email, web server, etc.
To share HTML with others you need to ZIP up the related files/folders then share. It also means viewing everything individually, versus in a "book" format.
I also saw the reply to Bernt ... sometimes you accept you can't take things with you and you start fresh, maybe just keep a few very special ones you want.
I didn't try to save 10,000 in images when Flickr purged them. Most weren't worth saving. I hardly ever go back to look at old post or images. I only keep a few very special ones - nostalgia, exceptional looking image, favorite character.
I regularly purge/delete images on my PC. People save thousands of images and do what with them exactly? I try to only save ones that will key off special memories or that I felt were so good I would want to continue using them as wallpaper or share with others as examples of my best work.
The main reason I saved all Grim's stuff is that my writing for Grim was a prototype, a test case, practice, for writing some actual books I want to write when I retire (heh maybe, that's the plan) and maybe publish. So, I want them for reference. Also in case someone else wants to read them (and that is more my ego then anything else) which is why I put copies on Nexus.
Bottom line, for me, is I don't have time to go through over 10,000 images so I let them get purged. I don't even have time to go through a 1000 when they build up over time on my HD. Usually 2 times a year I go through and mass purge off my HD 95% of my images and keep the top 5%.
Thank you for this very detailed and thoughtful reply.
I talked with her on the phone and I am not completely sure what she wants to do with them but I feel her pain when thinking about losing all these carefully created sets - so I reckon, first of all, it is about keeping them and then later decide what to do with them.
I for example, also didn't delete my sets when I deleted my old account here on Nexus in rage and sadness (and I go back to them now and then).
Anyway - she wants to keep them and I want to help her to do so.
I know that I already wasted a lot of your time, and I had no intention to waste any more - but maybe you can help me once more:
I ran into an odd problem.
As I said, I did a test with one of my older sets here and everything worked well (laptop with Windows 10 and Google Chrome); so I went to my new PC (Windows 11 and Firefox browser) because it is much faster - and after saving over 50 sets I thought I want to check it ..............and instead of the complete website, I had this nearly white page with text on the left side.
Any idea what went wrong?
Probably a setting either in Windows or in the browser.....but I am clueless.
A final thank you for your help - it's so much appreciated!
Maybe try a different browser? FF worked good for me on a few pages I tested. Could be security, view preferences, something that is different on your PC maybe.
Wish I could help more but I am not familiar with the process beyond the basics like yourself. I checked settings on my firefox and saw some color settings but doubt that is it, as that is more about light/dark theme for the browser and overrides you can set. Could try fiddling there.
At the moment I save everything as pdf. So I can save the right order of my pics in my stories and can be able to restore them ... if I have the time and if I have the patience to do it.
And ... perhaps nobody is interested on the old forgotten stories ...
Thank you for all your efforts!
Will fiddle around with some settings........ not only for Heike but also for me, since I love to save guides and instructions this way (I don't want to have internet at my new flat).
Thank you!
For first I have to save the collections for the orders of the pictures, but this is not enought ... most work would be, to give the pictures new links from a new image hoster.
Perhaps you understand, what I mean, when you read my sticky post.
I just whish you to find a solution to this, and hope this will never happen to my imgur uploads :/
I really hope, to find a solution.
At the moment I do copying all my sets and convert them to pdf to store them in an external hd.
But I have no idea how to restore all my works here on the nexus page ... :cry: