Corrupt OMNI thread
 

http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...ML/016911.html

is corrupt. I posted a reply on there this afternoon; the OMNI index page shows the time of the last reply as the time I made the reply, but the reply does not show when I open the thread. Yes, I refreshed.

Getting a little paranoid here, as I posted to the "Streets" thread in TravelBuzz about the time it got corrupted, and to the Word Association thread about the time it got corrupted as well . . .

Weird... I checked the script file and it didn't appear to be corrupted at all, and even contained your post. I rebuilt the thread and it placed your post into it like it should have done in the first place.

Thanks for the heads-up on that.

The mammoth 136-page Who Will Be Next FlyerTalker To Post? An OMNI Game thread is now corrupted. I figured only several days ago that this would happen.

New posts are being added to it on page 136 and the thread topic moves to the top position on page 1 in the OMNI forum, but one cannot actually access page 136 or the posts on page 136.

Also, I attempted several times to edit a post of mine on page 135 but it refused to let me do so.

Can this thread be saved, dan at WebFlyer?

Should this thread be saved?!?

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UPDATE

The posts that are supposed to be on page 136 are replacing the posts on page 1, as if starting the thread all over again!

Is 135 pages the maximum number of pages an Infopop thread can have before it apparently starts over again???

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By the way, has there ever been a thread in the history of FlyerTalk that was longer than 136 pages? If so, what happened to it (them)?

I realize that a 136-page thread that has little to do with points and miles (although points and miles have been discussed in that thread!) is of low priority, so I understand if it may be some time before this problem is resolved.

Thank you in advance, by the way, for your assistance, dan at WebFlyer.

[This message has been edited by Canarsie (edited 11-02-2003).]

I don't think we've had threads hit that size before, although the Word Association Threads have gotten pretty large. Personally, I'm surprised the thread made it to 136 pages, considering it's all flat-file based, as well as UBB's other problems.

Unfortunately, that thread is way too long to rebuild manually. I've fixed the corruption in the thread and rebuilt it, but it looks like you're starting over again at page 1.

If you want, you can manually archive the old pages
http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr.../014467-2.html
thru
http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...14467-135.html
for your personal use, but as this reset thread grows, those old pages will be written over, so grab them fast if you want them.

[This message has been edited by dan at WebFlyer (edited 11-03-2003).]

dan at WebFlyer, thank you for your assistance. I would never expect you to go through that kind of trouble just to resurrect a thread in OMNI. You have far more important things to do, and I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

I guess this software has been tested to its limits, if I understand you correctly.

I simply have one question: When you say archive, do you mean copy and paste, or is there some special method or way of archiving pages manually about which I do not know as of yet?

I have a Macintosh G4 computer, if that makes any difference.

Again, thank you for your assistance, dan at WebFlyer.

Yeah, we've more than pushed the envelope on UBB. They should pay us to endorse their software like Toyota does for people that put 500,000 miles on their cars.

Copy/paste would work, although it would be very tedious going through 135 pages. But yeah, either that method, or using software to pull down the pages for offline viewing. Either way, you'll always have the posts for your own use/records. I would recommend the software approach. Just make sure you can constrain your downloading to only the thread pages you want, or you may end up downloading all of OMNI, or even worse, all of FlyerTalk.

Check VersionTracker.com for Mac-related software...

And, of course, if you're a programmer, you could write something that pulls down the pages automatically.

[This message has been edited by dan at WebFlyer (edited 11-03-2003).]

If you're using OSX you could use wget from the terminal.

That's how I would do it.

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