Reposting gallery pics help please

[Garvin]

I'm looking to recruit some more helpers to transfer over pics from Photobucket to my own web host, please. At the moment I am working through the main gallery, and have got to the start of letter ‘D’.

At the same time, Jimmie Dee has heroically worked on the letters ‘T’ to ‘W’.

I have a few other collectors lined up to help when they can spare the time.

I have about a year to get them all moved and progress is good so far, but I can tell I’ll need more help with the BSA, Diana and Falke galleries.

The process is fairly simple: using right click ‘save as’, save pics from each gallery entry to folders on your hard disk, then upload the same pics to the vintageairgunsgallery.com website (I will give you instructions). It automatically presents you with links to the pics, which then need to be copied and pasted into the gallery page for that model, on top of the existing Photobucket links.

It’s not a technically difficult thing to do, but needs concentration and patience to get it right every time. You need to be able to devote chunks of time to it and be methodical as you work.

Anyone who thinks they’d be up for helping over the next 8 months, please let me know and I’ll give you a test to see if you're up to the task! Thanks.

[Garvin]

Careful, don't all surge forward at once.

[JimmieDee]

Pmsl!

[Citizen K]

The process is fairly simple: using right click ‘save as’, save pics from each gallery entry to folders on your hard disk

Deeply inefficient Danny. I will use a random Falke gallery as an example: http://www.network54.com/Forum/642127/message/1454690800/Blinged-up+Falke+80+no.+96

Go into the gallery link, copy the forum message id, in this case "1454690800" from the above link, you will need it for reference.
Right click anywhere on the message page and save as, a dialog box will open with the location to save and a pre-filled name that will look like this: Falke Gallery_.html, you will append the message id you copied previously to this file name like so: Falke Gallery_1454690800.html, click save. This will now save every image in one go on that page in a folder on your hard drive. On N54 there is very little file overhead so while it will download a few extraneous files, they are tiny (altogether around 146kb) and not a bother. Delete everything that is not a gallery image.

If you meticulously follow the procedure above you will have the entire gallery, message by message, downloaded and properly referenced for the bulk upload procedure.

Caveats, you will need decent internet speed for this procedure and will not work on blocked images.

[Citizen K]

P.S. Your entire Falke Gallery is now downloaded (http://www.network54.com/Forum/642127)

[Garvin]

P.S. Your entire Falke Gallery is now downloaded (http://www.network54.com/Forum/642127)

Thanks Kane. It's good to hear that at least part of the process can be speeded up. (I tried that and it's just saved the html file on my hard disk as far as I can see. Could you please email me a fuller explanation? Thanks.)

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