Testing 1: Migration

I noticed there were still 'Access denied' errors showing in the log. It turns out my first solution only works if you're logged in as the admin user - rookie mistake!

It should now work for all users, so clicking these links should take you to their correct \media\... pages:

http://gwulo.com/node/1380

http://gwulo.com/node/19775

If you come across any other pages that show 'Access denied', please leave a comment with a link to the page showing 'Access denied' and the previous page with the link you clicked to get there.

They're still available - please click the 'ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: TAGS, ETC.' to see them.

In general, if you're editing a page and can't see a field you're expecting, the first place to look is that Additional Information section.

Thanks Klaus, good catch. I was showing a smaller copy of the image that was expanded to fit, but would look blurry. Fixed now.

Looking at that page on the old site (https://www.gwulo.com/atom/12083), it shows the same error. I've hidden the comment, which hides the error message.

The error message is correct, there is no node/3214 page on either the new or the old site. I can see several other pages on the site that show this error: https://new.gwulo.com/search?query=Image_assist

It looks as though they are all in posts and comments written before 2014, so my guess is that those image nodes were lost during the 2014 upgrade or before.

If readers spot the error message in any of their own posts or comments listed at https://new.gwulo.com/search?query=Image_assist they can help to fix them:

• Edit the post / comment
• click the 'source' button in the editor to reveal the html code
• delete the [] and all text contained inside it (This is the 'Image_assist macro')
• click the 'source' button again to go back to the text view
• Insert a replacement image if possible
• Save your edits

I'll do a clean-up of what's left after summer.

I've found a way around the problems with entering years earlier than 1900 on Event pages, and have corrected the dates at https://new.gwulo.com/node/57842, the page for the 1869 royal visit.

If you find any problems entering dates on other pages, please let me know in the comments below.

I'm not sure how we'll handle that - or why it is happening on the new site but not the old site. I'll take a look into it when I get back from vacation. (The 1925 Wyndham Street photo looks ok in my browser.)

We're off to the UK tomorrow to visit family, so I'll be out of action until I'm freed from quarantine in mid-August. If you find any more problems, please keep recording them in the comments on this page and I'll start working through them when I get back.

I hope you have a good summer, and that if you are travelling away from home your travels go smoothly.

Best regards, David

PS I'll include a couple of e-mail messages I received below, to keep everything together. I've added my notes in italics.

Dead links at new.gwulo.com/media/18971 , new.gwulo.com/media/18904 and new.gwulo.com/media/18850

These were all Flickr images, but the image has since been deleted from Flickr. If you see more /media pages without an image at the top of the page, it is likely another example of this problem. 

I've had a further look at some old posts and noted the following changes on the new website.

1. The place page for Farnborough, RBL 69, node/5702.............
- In "Photos That Show This Place", the first photo, dated 1975, is missing.

You can click on the photos tab to see which one it was, so http://new.gwulo.com/node/5702/photos then http://new.gwulo.com/media/25444 : It is another example of a missing Flickr image like Klaus described above.

- The format of the first part of the first comment looks weird and has obviously been changed, but I can't remember what it looked like before.

You can delete the 'new.' from the start of the url to see how the page looked on the old site: https://gwulo.com/node/5702

So it is the missing Flickr image that makes the comment look strange. We'll fix the Flickr problem first, then we can tidy up the comments.

2. The photo entitled "Mt Gough area, with 359 The Peak", media/29532,
The last comment in the string contains some technical jargon, i.e. [scald:295.....etc.

Fixed now.

3. You are already aware that some photos have been rotated 90 degrees. Further examples are at media/15820, 17405,17419, 17420, 17421,  17542, 17544, 17545, 17457, 17878.

I followed these steps to fix media/15820:

1. Go to the page and click 'Edit'
2. Right-click on the link to the image and save the file ('Save link as...' in Chrome) to your hard disk.
3. If using Windows, go the directory where you saved the file, and make a change to the name of the file, eg add '-v2'. Then right-click the image, and rotate it so it looks correct
4. Back on the 'Edit Image ...' page, click the 'Remove' button to remove the bad image, then 'Choose file' to select the corrected copy. It'll have erased the Title, so copy and paste that from the top of the page.
5. Scroll down and click Save.

Please could you try fixing the others in the same way?