Aug 25, 2011, 11:44 PM
Hi everyone,
At some point in the next week or so, we'll be cleaning up the downloads center just a bit. This is absolutely nothing to worry about: all downloads that are available and working today will still be available and won't be deleted. The only downloads that will be deleted are ones that shouldn't be listed anymore anyway, as the files are missing.
When managing a database of over 2,800 downloads, some files are destined to go missing. Either through uploader errors or lost files in one of our several server moves or website updates, we have a number of downloads (around 80 or so) where we simply don't have a file in the file system. We have no way of recovering these files and, thus, the best thing to do is remove them from the downloads database and accept that we aren't perfect.
I will update this thread once the clean-up has been completed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in this thread - I'd be happy to answer them!
Thanks,
Justin
At some point in the next week or so, we'll be cleaning up the downloads center just a bit. This is absolutely nothing to worry about: all downloads that are available and working today will still be available and won't be deleted. The only downloads that will be deleted are ones that shouldn't be listed anymore anyway, as the files are missing.
When managing a database of over 2,800 downloads, some files are destined to go missing. Either through uploader errors or lost files in one of our several server moves or website updates, we have a number of downloads (around 80 or so) where we simply don't have a file in the file system. We have no way of recovering these files and, thus, the best thing to do is remove them from the downloads database and accept that we aren't perfect.
I will update this thread once the clean-up has been completed.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in this thread - I'd be happy to answer them!
Thanks,
Justin