argh, Scrapbook

[ratcreature]

So, LJ migrated my Scrapbook, which is a good thing, because apparently the old system had already corrupted ten of my pictures so they couldn't migrate them now, when I myself had only noticed two that had been messed up while I happened to look at old posts. However I would have liked the migration report a little more informative when listing the damaged ones, because if you haven't titled your pictures, the report doesn't even give you the folder. Or, you know, if LJ's Scrapbook hadn't corrupted my pictures in the first place, but I've learned not to set my expectations too high when it comes to LJ.

The thing is, when the old Scrapbook was still around and destroyed one of my pictures, I could usually still see the preview picture that had been created, and of course the folder and the position the picture was in. I asked support whether they might be able to give me that information at least about the pictures they corrupted, but the reply, while prompt, wasn't helpful. They could just tell me that they passed this on to the migration team as suggestion, so that maybe the log could become more informative for others who aren't migrated yet.

Thanks to the DW search function I have at least found posts for about half of the images when they were embedded or linked, and could reconstruct what they had been, and restore those. But I'm still at a loss what some of the other pictures were. Well, hopefully the new system won't eat any more of my stuff from now on.

Comments

[astridv]

A few of mine were lost over the years as well. Though I don't remember seeing any error reports when they moved my pics (I chose the early transfer option.)

But anyway: for once new improved scrapbook actually seems to be... improved? So far I've been pleasantly surprised. The setup is a lot more user friendy. Hopefully more stable, too.

[ratcreature]

Yes, so far I'm quite pleased too with the changes. And I hope it won't vanish any more of my pictures now. At least it seems to work for me with the uploading and display, which is more than what can be said for some other photo sites. For example I stopped using photobucket when it just wouldn't work anymore on my computer, and then I found out that it degraded pictures to save space, even when you were under your allowed space and transfer limits (and not just for free users, but paid too). So it is not as if LJ was alone with broken image storage systems.

[astridv]

Yeah, I haven't tried any other storage sites yet but if scrapbook keeps this up, it should actually be worth shelling out the money for the paid journal. Right now scrapbook is the only thing that keeps me from letting my journal lapse to standard.