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(...) 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 (URL) Flickr Uploadr>) but circumstances resulted in a download utility (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Revitalizing or Replacing BrickShelf In Some Form
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(...) For the record, I am hosting some LEGO club sites in exchange for links back to the main Northstar page. I also host a number of LEGO-related sites (including bricklink.com) on a paid basis. brickshelf.com requires massive resources that (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf.com – A Possible Solution
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(...) I have noticed on LUGNET that there are a number of sites that are being offered as alternatives to BrickShelf. My concern is the issue of the number of sites now competing to fill the void and splintering the community, rather than one major (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Won't someone please think of the dead people? (Was: Brickshelf back up)
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(...) Some efforts are going on at these places. (URL) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Here's a very rudimentary application that does the same thing for those who aren't comfortable using the Terminal: (URL) Download BrickshelfBackup.app.zip> (26k; probably requires Mac OS X 10.4, as does the bscrawl.tcl script) Double-click (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | *RED BRICK ALERT* If you know ANYBODY!!
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If you know anybody who are... •IN THE DARK AGES •LEFT THE LEGO COMMUNITY or just out of the LOOP. •NO ACCESS TO THE INTERNET •LEFT THE COUNTRY or are ON A LONG VACATION on a private island. •PASSED AWAY (try to contact family/friends about saving (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | An Open Letter to Kevin (BrickShelf)
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Dear Kevin, I wish to thank you for your efforts over the years with respect to Brickshelf. I cannot express in words what it has meant to me over the years. I understand the effort and expense that it takes to organize, host, and provide this (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | MOCpages, now a Brickshelf alternative
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Hi, everyone... With the looming shut-down of Brickshelf, I would like to offer (URL) MOCpages> as a safe alternative for everyone to continue posting their LEGO creations. In light of this, MOCpages now offers free image hosting. Of course, you can (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.mocpages, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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WOW great thanks:) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf and the AFOL community
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(...) It took me a few weeks from first hearing the name to figure it out, but it's a trademarkable spelling of the second syllable of the word "image". Not pronounced quite the same, but clearly the source of the word. (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Won't someone please think of the dead people? (Was: Brickshelf back up)
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(...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Whiners Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
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In lugnet.general, Troy Cefaratti wrote: <SNIP> (...) And so far the biggest whining has come from Troy ...... lmao on the irony. BS was a great service and will be missed, but let's not forget why it was good. It was the AFOL and all the awesome (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've decided to start migrating my BS account to MAJ. Fortunately for me, my gallery is pretty small. What is really needed is a migration bot that automates the upload process to MAJ after BSbackup utility has finished its downloads from (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf back up (at least temporarily)
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Hi, (...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) whom do i kiss, thank and or send a check? also does anyone know just how large "tera bites" brickshelf is? ondrew (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Utility
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I'm getting a "10013: permission denied" error, whether trying to grab my whole folder or a subfolder, logged in or not. Anyone know why this would be? (obviously this is working for other people). Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Please bring BS back - at least in a locked version!!
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(...) Amen, brother. And I'm willing to put my $$$ where my mouth is, and I have emailed Kevin as much. I thought that it was great that Kevin finally started taking donations, but he ceased it. It is certainly worth $2.00 a month to me to support (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Please bring BS back - at least in a locked version!!
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(...) I would be happy if it were possible to buy the entire BS content database on a set of DVD's or something. Does anyone know how much space the entire BS archive is? How many 4.7GB DVDs would it take up? At the very least it would be nice if (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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As noted (URL) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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