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Subject: 
Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:00:55 GMT
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http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Kudos to BS for going above and beyond the call to provide users an opportunity
to retrieve their files.

But my Top Ten list still stands.

Dave!

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Wonderful!  Thanks to you and Kevin for arranging this!

Now I know what I'll be doing this weekend: saving all of my photos and every
photo that I love on Bshelf!  It still is a shame that Bshelf is going away, but
thanks for the 2nd chance to save photos!

-Lenny

Ps. I use too many exclamation points :p

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:10:07 GMT
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here’s how to make a quick and easy Brickshelf backup.

Don’t panic! (Douglas Adams)

    
          
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:26:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jan Folkersma wrote:
   here’s how to make a quick and easy Brickshelf backup.

Don’t panic! (Douglas Adams)

edit! link is dead, but this one still works:

http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/download/BSBackup_0013.zip

phew! (almost panic...)

    
          
      
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:53:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jan Folkersma wrote:

  
   how to make a quick and easy Brickshelf backup.

edit! link is dead, but this one still works:

http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/download/BSBackup_0013.zip

phew! (almost panic...)

Very nice. Too bad there’s not a Mac version (and I don’t think anyone will cobble one up in the next two weeks :-).

-- Brian Davis

     
           
       
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:21:08 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Brian Davis wrote:
   In lugnet.general, Jan Folkersma wrote:

  
   how to make a quick and easy Brickshelf backup.

edit! link is dead, but this one still works:

http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/download/BSBackup_0013.zip

phew! (almost panic...)

Very nice. Too bad there’s not a Mac version (and I don’t think anyone will cobble one up in the next two weeks :-).

No promises, but keep an eye on lugnet.cad.dev.mac tonight or tomorrow. I started something like this (but quicker and dirtier) Sunday morning before the https link went down.

Jim

      
            
       
Subject: 
Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:28:10 GMT
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As noted here, there is a BSBackup utility for Windows that helps you batch download the contents of Brickshelf galleries. (This is of interest at the moment due to Brickshelf’s imminent closure.) I’ve written a quick hack to accomplish the same thing on Mac OS X.

Download bscrawl.tcl (7k)

This is a command line script. (Hypothetically, it may also work with Linux or Windows if you have Tcl and tcllib.) I recognize this is not the ideal Macintosh interface, so I’ll write an AppleScript wrapper sometime soon that you can just click when you’re viewing a gallery you’d like to back up.

Assuming you’ve downloaded the script to your desktop, open the Terminal application and enter the following commands to move to your desktop folder and make the script executable:

cd Desktop
chmod +x bscrawl.tcl

Now you can retrieve your Brickshelf gallery with the following command:

./bscrawl.tcl -m username -dir MyBrickshelf

where username is your Brickshelf username and MyBrickshelf is a folder you have created on the desktop to contain your Brickshelf files (you can, of course, provide a different directory). The script works recursively, so that your Brickshelf folder hierarchy is reconstructed in the local directory.

If you only want to back up the contents of a particular folder (and its subfolders), use a command like this:

./bscrawl.tcl -f 233717 -dir ~/Documents/MyFavoriteFolder

Where 233717 is the folder id you see in the Brickshelf URL for that gallery.

You can also download a gallery (either a folder or a whole account) by specifying its URL:

./bscrawl.tcl -url http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=233717  -dir ~/Documents/MyFavoriteFolder

Use the -pause option to specify how many seconds to idle between downloads:

./bscrawl.tcl -f 233717 -dir ~/Documents/MyFavoriteFolder -pause 5

That summarizes the usage. A few notes:
  • Both image and data files are downloaded (.ldr, .txt, .mov, etc.)
  • Folder descriptions and keywords are not retrieved
  • Existing local files are skipped, so you can efficiently “update” a local backup by reissuing the initial command (it won’t notice changes to the same filename, though). Kind of useless since nothing new is going on Brickshelf now, although this could certainly be adapted for maj.com
  • Multi-page folders are handled
  • Basic progress messages are printed to the terminal
  • Very dependent on Brickshelf’s current HTML format
  • It was written in an evening, so there’s been negligible testing. I’m sure there are bugs. You accept that at your own risk. Some of the code isn’t very well thought out, either, but it works for me.
I hope some of you find this useful. Let me know how it works for you. As I mentioned, I’ll try to make it more user friendly in the next few days.

Jim

      
            
        
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Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:36:38 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jim DeVona wrote:

   Download bscrawl.tcl (7k)

This is a command line script. (Hypothetically, it may also work with Linux or Windows if you have Tcl and tcllib.) I recognize this is not the ideal Macintosh interface, so I’ll write an AppleScript wrapper sometime soon that you can just click when you’re viewing a gallery you’d like to back up.

Here’s a very rudimentary application that does the same thing for those who aren’t comfortable using the Terminal:

Download BrickshelfBackup.app.zip (26k; probably requires Mac OS X 10.4, as does the bscrawl.tcl script)

Double-click the Brickshelf Backup program to retrieve the Brickshelf gallery you are currently viewing in Safari. (In other words, first go to the Brickshelf page you want to download - either a user gallery or a folder - and then launch this little app.) The program will ask you where to save the backup. It will then appear to do nothing while it downloads the gallery. In the meantime you may safely close or navigate away from the page in Safari. An alert will announce when the backup is complete.

I recommend the command line version because of its greater flexibility and the fact that you can monitor the progress messages. Were there more time, I might invest more effort in the interface. As it stands, I hope this is useful.

Jim

       
             
        
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Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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In lugnet.general, Jim DeVona wrote:

   As it stands, I hope this is useful.

Whoa, Jim, this was awesome. Thanks so much:-)

JOHN

      
            
        
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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Thanks for that Jim. I got the script working for user backup, and Peter Bartfai (the author of the original script) also got one working for user backup (before seeing my email that I’d gotten it working). However, while I haven’t looked at Peter’s yet, mine definitely appears more difficult to use than yours. It requires wget (which Mac OSX doesn’t ship with), so it would have to be distributed in a DMG for Mac users.

I’ll probably post the scripts somewhere anyway, so that at least Linux people can them it if they so desire.

The original script grabbed all .ldr, .mpd, and .dat files from all of Brickshelf, and I ran that last night, so at least none of the CAD models will be lost. I don’t really have the ability to host them at the moment, but I may make them available at some point in the future.

--Travis

       
             
        
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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In lugnet.general, Travis Cobbs wrote:

   Thanks for that Jim. I got the script working for user backup, and Peter Bartfai (the author of the original script) also got one working for user backup (before seeing my email that I’d gotten it working). However, while I haven’t looked at Peter’s yet, mine definitely appears more difficult to use than yours.

Well, I had the advantage of writing it from scratch specifically for this purpose. It’s funny because I had been thinking about writing a Brickshelf upload utility (like Flickr Uploadr) but circumstances resulted in a download utility instead.

   It requires wget (which Mac OSX doesn’t ship with), so it would have to be distributed in a DMG for Mac users.

On the other hand, Mac OS X does come with curl, so maybe it could be adapted to use that.

   I’ll probably post the scripts somewhere anyway, so that at least Linux people can them it if they so desire.

OK. The more the merrier! (I think that Tcl and tcllib come with some Linux distributions, too, but I don’t know for sure, so a plain shell script could be a useful alternative.)

   The original script grabbed all .ldr, .mpd, and .dat files from all of Brickshelf, and I ran that last night, so at least none of the CAD models will be lost. I don’t really have the ability to host them at the moment, but I may make them available at some point in the future.

Wow! I can see how that would be a useful script for testing LDView, too.

Speaking of hosting LDraw files - what exactly is the story with the “Official Model Repository”? Is there any such actual repository? If not, would this be a good time for the LDraw community to implement the idea? (Forgive my ignorance if this topic has been resolved one way or the other - I’m just curious.)

Anyway, Brickshelf must be going out with a bang as far as bandwidth is concerned.

Jim

       
             
        
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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   It requires wget (which Mac OSX doesn’t ship with), so it would have to be distributed in a DMG for Mac users.

On the other hand, Mac OS X does come with curl, so maybe it could be adapted to use that.

There are many instructions how to install wget and even some installers. curl can’t beat ‘wget -m’ afaik.

   Speaking of hosting LDraw files - what exactly is the story with the “Official Model Repository”? Is there any such actual repository? If not, would this be a good time for the LDraw community to implement the idea? (Forgive my ignorance if this topic has been resolved one way or the other - I’m just curious.)

No official repository afaik. Last I heard was that we want to build it, but that requires a developer with the time to build it!

   Anyway, Brickshelf must be going out with a bang as far as bandwidth is concerned.

Does anyone know the chances of just taking all the Brickshelf files and hosting them somewhere else? Not brickshelf’s functionality, just the files? That way they can be left up for much longer than July 31st.

James

       
             
        
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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In lugnet.general, James Reynolds wrote:
  
  
   It requires wget (which Mac OSX doesn’t ship with), so it would have to be distributed in a DMG for Mac users.

On the other hand, Mac OS X does come with curl, so maybe it could be adapted to use that.

There are many instructions how to install wget and even some installers. curl can’t beat ‘wget -m’ afaik.

I didn’t have any problem compiling and installing wget (although I did have to change the default install path by hand from /usr/local to /opt/local so that it would be in my pre-existing path). However, I suspect that most Mac users would be averse to doing that. Having said that, here is Peter’s sh script (all 844 bytes of it):

http://www.halibut.com/~tcobbs/ldraw/private/bsbackup.sh

To use the above script, run it with the URL of the gallery you want backed up as the only argument on the command line. I think it will only work if it’s in the current directory when you run it. Also, it seems to only back up images (not sure why that is). Make sure to put quotes around the URL on the command line, since brickshelf URLs usually include a question mark, which the shell will try to interpret.

Example:
./bsbackup.sh "http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=169512"
As mentioned, you must have wget installed on your system (which is there by default on most Linux distros). This script doesn’t use the -m option, and could be (fairly easily) modified to work with curl. I haven’t done that, though, and don’t plan to.

--Travis

       
             
         
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:53:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Travis Cobbs wrote:
   it’s in the current directory when you run it. Also, it seems to only back up images (not sure why that is). Make sure to put quotes around the URL on

OK, if you download and run the script now, it should back up all files (not just images).

--Travis

       
             
        
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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&tIn lugnet.general, Travis Cobbs wrote:

   here is Peter’s sh script (all 844 bytes of it): • ; http://www.halibut.com/~tcobbs/ldraw/private/bsbackup.sh

Boy, that is a lot more compact than mine!

   Also, it seems to only back up images (not sure why that is).

It looks like it’s only considering links to /cgi-bin/gallery.cgi. However, links to non-image files from the Brickshelf folder pages point directly to /gallery/username/foo/bar.dat. (Ah, I see you have fixed this.)

   Make sure to put quotes around the URL on the command line, since brickshelf URLs usually include a question mark, which the shell will try to interpret.

That advice probably stands for my script’s -url option as well.

   As mentioned, you must have wget installed on your system (which is there by default on most Linux distros).

For anyone interested, I can confirm that wget 1.10.2 builds on my Mac with the following:

./configure
make
make install

As Travis noted, though, if you don’t have a /usr/local directory (as I do) you may want to configure a different installation location.

For what it’s worth, I just did an informal comparison between this script and mine. I timed the download of my account with each script. Keep in mind that network variations and in particular Brickshelf’s heavy traffic make this a relative comparison, not an absolute measure.

cd ~/bsbackup-test
time ./bsbackup.sh "http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=anoved"

This took 24:32 (using the initial version which did not retrieve my LDraw files).

time bscrawl.tcl -url  "http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=anoved" -dir ~/bscrawl-test  -pause 0.01

This took 31:20 to download all my files.

So, it looks like your script is a bit faster as well as a bit smaller.

Jim

       
             
        
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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In lugnet.general, Jim DeVona wrote:

   For what it’s worth, I just did an informal comparison between this script and mine. I timed the download of my account with each script. Keep in mind that network variations and in particular Brickshelf’s heavy traffic make this a relative comparison, not an absolute measure.

cd ~/bsbackup-test
time ./bsbackup.sh  "http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=anoved"

This took 24:32 (using the initial version which did not retrieve my LDraw files).

time bscrawl.tcl -url  "http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=anoved" -dir  ~/bscrawl-test -pause 0.01

This took 31:20 to download all my files.

So, it looks like your script is a bit faster as well as a bit smaller.

Of course, I just tried bsbackup.sh again - the current version that gets all files - and it took 32:05. There’s a little quicktime movie in there that probably accounts for most of the difference as the MPD files are quite small. So the actual performance difference may be negligible.

And now I’ll stop wasting bandwidth.

Cheers,

Jim

      
            
        
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Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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In lugnet.general, Jim DeVona wrote:
   As noted here, there is a BSBackup utility for Windows that helps you batch download the contents of Brickshelf galleries. (This is of interest at the moment due to Brickshelf’s imminent closure.) I’ve written a quick hack to accomplish the same thing on Mac OS X.


Thank you Jim! This was great and saved me a lot of time :)

-Anne

      
            
       
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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In lugnet.general, Jim DeVona wrote:

  
  • Multi-page folders are handled

Yesterday I realized that while my script handled multi-page folder galleries (URLs like f=1234), it did not handle multi-page user galleries (URLs like m=username). This has been fixed and “version 1.1” is now available at the same address previously given. The AppleScript version has been updated, too.

This fix has not really been tested.

Jim

     
           
      
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Brian Davis wrote:
   In lugnet.general, Jan Folkersma wrote:

  
   how to make a quick and easy Brickshelf backup.

edit! link is dead, but this one still works:

http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/download/BSBackup_0013.zip

phew! (almost panic...)

Very nice. Too bad there’s not a Mac version (and I don’t think anyone will cobble one up in the next two weeks :-).

Actually, I have in my possession a shell script that does something similar, that could be fairly easily modified to do the same thing. The author specifically asked that this script not be distributed, though, so I’ve asked him if he can provide the modified script. This should run fine on a Mac or on Linux.

--Travis

    
          
      
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jan Folkersma wrote:
   In lugnet.general, Jan Folkersma wrote:
   here’s how to make a quick and easy Brickshelf backup.

Don’t panic! (Douglas Adams)

edit! link is dead, but this one still works:

http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/download/BSBackup_0013.zip

phew! (almost panic...)

Thanks for this! It works very nicely.

-Hendo

    
          
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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WOW great thanks:)

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

Thanks.

Didier

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
   http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31. Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer www.peeron.com

Great news and glad to hear it!

Grab stuff while the grabbing is good, folks--and a big Thank You to all parties that made it happen! (Especially Kevin--and thanks for all the years of hard work you sank into this!)

Play Well and Prosper,

Matthew “The Brick Detective”

    
          
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Crandall wrote:

a big Thank You to _all_ parties that made it happen!
(Especially Kevin--and thanks for all the years
of hard work you sank into this!)

Absolutely! I'm really sad to see Brickshelf, and all those wonderful MOC images
go away... but THANK YOU to having kept Brickshelf up and running all these
years, and thank you yet again for the window to have a last browse and grab
through the years and years of accumulated images.

How many Gb (Tb?) are in Brickshelf by this point?

--
Brian Davis

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

Thanks Jennifer for the heads up.  Thanks Kevin for the years of free service,
and the opportunity for idiots like me to grab photos they foolishly didn't
archive.

Since I'm throwing a "Thanks" grenade, thanks also to Sean Kenney for responding
so quickly over at MOCPages, so that we still have a Lego-pure(except for the
Halo screen shots) site to host images and of course, smack.

-Keith (Thanks to myself for being so awesome)
R.I.P. Brickshelf

    
          
      
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Keith Goldman wrote:
Thanks Kevin for the years of free service,
and the opportunity for idiots like me to grab photos they foolishly didn't
archive.


This struck me as ironic as I was helping myself to my faviourite 5
inspirational photo's from your gallery at the time. Such great work!

God Bless,

Nathan (hope you don't mind)

    
          
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Hi,

Thanks Jennifer for the heads up.  Thanks Kevin for the years of free service,
and the opportunity for idiots like me to grab photos they foolishly didn't
archive.

Yes, indeed.
Thanks a lot for bringing Brickshelf back for a short periode to safe the
photos.
Brickshelf was a great platform for the community to share photos with
everybody. Thanks a lot for doing this, Kevin. A lot of my inspiration I got
from this site.

Regargds,
Barbara

   
         
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

Thanks to all of those who made this possible.

Jude

    
          
     
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Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jude Beaudin wrote:
In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

Awesome!  Thanks for the heads-up Jennifer.  I had all my stuff backed up, but
there are some photos (not mine) on there I would love to save.  Just serves as
a reminder to us all to keep backups of everything.  :-)

-Dave

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

Excellent news. Thanks to everyone who arranged for this.

Is there any word on the future status of Maj?

-Gaurav

(remove the capital S's in the email)

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:41:22 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com



whom do i kiss, thank and or send a check?    also does anyone know just how
large "tera bites" brickshelf is?

ondrew

   
         
     
Subject: 
Won't someone please think of the dead people? (Was: Brickshelf back up)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Okay, so we've got two weeks to scour Brickshelf for stuff we want to
save...assuming we're around to do so.  I can recall at least three AFOLs who
have passed on, and I'm sure there are others.  It'd be really cool if their
photos could be archived against the possibility that a new central AFOL photo
repository comes into being, and they can be reposted.

    
          
     
Subject: 
Re: Won't someone please think of the dead people? (Was: Brickshelf back up)
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In lugnet.general, David Laswell wrote:
In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Okay, so we've got two weeks to scour Brickshelf for stuff we want to
save...assuming we're around to do so.  I can recall at least three AFOLs who
have passed on, and I'm sure there are others.

Some efforts are going on at these places.
http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11064&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc
http://www.classic-space.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?54863
http://www.fbtbforums.net/viewtopic.php?p=331900#331900

   
         
     
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily) loss of pictures
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:40:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31.
Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer
www.peeron.com

I have noticed the file count has dropped by over 11,000 pictures since
Brickshelf has been back up.

I do not know about others but I’m hopping to be able to view all the bookmarks
I have acquired over the years at least once more.
We still have over 2 weeks until the black ages.

Mike Gallagher
MIKESLEGO

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
   http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31. Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer www.peeron.com

First, I have to wonder why it is that we are hearing this type of news from you instead of Kevin. I don’t mean to insult, but he has been conspicuously silent on the closure of Brickshelf. I little information for the community to chew on would be nice.

Second, since you seem to have some contact with Kevin, is a question. Would Kevin be willing to turn over the data on his servers to another party? I’m less concerned with decentralization of community photos than I am with the HUGE loss of archived historical and building references that go with Brickshelf. If the pegged bandwidth this week has been any indication, he will realize that the community is loath to lose it.

Please! A little communication! Let us (the community) know what can be done so that this resource is not lost and can be properly archived.

-Duane

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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In lugnet.general, Duane Hess wrote:
   In lugnet.general, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:
   http://www.brickshelf.com/

Notice: Brickshelf will be shutting down on 2007/07/31. Please save your files to your computer.

Jennifer www.peeron.com

First, I have to wonder why it is that we are hearing this type of news from you instead of Kevin. I don’t mean to insult, but he has been conspicuously silent on the closure of Brickshelf. I little information for the community to chew on would be nice.

Duane-

You heard it from me because I posted first. :) This was public knowledge at the time I posted. Past history will show that postings from Brickshelf directly are few and far between.

   Second, since you seem to have some contact with Kevin, is a question. Would Kevin be willing to turn over the data on his servers to another party? I’m less concerned with decentralization of community photos than I am with the HUGE loss of archived historical and building references that go with Brickshelf. If the pegged bandwidth this week has been any indication, he will realize that the community is loath to lose it.

Please! A little communication! Let us (the community) know what can be done so that this resource is not lost and can be properly archived.

No one wants this resource to be lost, however I cannot speak to what Kevin is or is not willing to do, that’s a question for him.

I know it’s incredibly hard to have patience when each day brings 7/31 closer, but until we know more, we’ll all just have to sit on the edges of our seats. Once we know more, we can try and put some plans into action.

Jennifer

 

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