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Post by Ken Berry on Feb 5, 2024 23:25:20 GMT
People will be happy to know that the Internet Archive has "crawled" the old Corel forums since 2008 and most recently in late January 2024. This is available on web.archive.org/web/20240103081121/https://forum.corel.com/ In other words, everything accumulated there over the years about problems with VS and PSP has not been irretrievably lost with the closure of the Corel forums.
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cassel
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Post by cassel on Feb 5, 2024 23:43:13 GMT
This is great news because the "old" forum was a vault of collective knowledge!
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Post by wstagner on Feb 6, 2024 0:06:56 GMT
Thank God for that! :-)
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Post by robertoz on Feb 6, 2024 0:29:17 GMT
Could someone explain how to use the Wayback Machine, unable to work out how to retrieve anything, also get the following message
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Post by Ken Berry on Feb 6, 2024 0:42:51 GMT
That's strange. I have gone to that page and can click on one of the threads. Get a redirecting page and eventually get to the thread. Only problem is that it is quite slow. But I still get there... I can also find a webarchive page which lists all the entries they have archived from the forum: web.archive.org/web/*/https://forum.corel.com/* But hopefully someone who uses this web archive more regularly can explain its working. I have never used or even opened it before today.
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cmo
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Post by cmo on Feb 6, 2024 2:30:23 GMT
They have only crawled the main forum pages (and probably not all of those since they only show 92). None of the actual topics appear to be available.
Conal
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Post by levifiction on Feb 6, 2024 3:47:12 GMT
Yeah, I was looking into various projects for scraping phpbb forums to archive as much as possible. Usually a "backup" solution requires knowledge of the database information, whereas a web scraper needs to follow every link, download the html, and maintain a consistent structure. EDIT: github.com/MozillaCZ/phpbbcrawlerThis one, for example, is designed to crawl over phpbb forums and back them up to the waybackmachine. Doing what the default crawler doesn't. But it uses java and runs as a bash script on a linux machine. No idea if it'd even work.
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Post by tletter on Feb 6, 2024 13:41:52 GMT
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Post by Kathy_9 on Feb 6, 2024 14:38:15 GMT
It's very cumbersome to use but this is what I've seen so far.
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Post by jeanluc on Feb 6, 2024 14:44:38 GMT
Hi Kathy, it seems some images are missing in your docx file (page #2).
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Post by jardineuse on Feb 6, 2024 14:54:27 GMT
Hi, Fellow members, I have known the Wayback Machine for a long time and used it to have access to vanished websites that presented PSP tutorials. This new forum is a great idea and I want to thank the person who made it possible in creating it. There is a very large PSP community out there and I am convinced that all the information that was kept in the old forum will be found here, once again. So, thank you all of those who have precious informations, tricks and tips, for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Hugs XX
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Post by Kathy_9 on Feb 6, 2024 14:57:14 GMT
How odd. They are showing for me and I just re-downloaded the document from the forum to verify. Here's a screen grab of what I see.
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Post by jeanluc on Feb 6, 2024 15:08:09 GMT
How odd. They are showing for me and I just re-downloaded the document from the forum to verify. Here's a screen grab of what I see.
Ooops. Error on my side. The file was opened before complete downloading. I get it now. Thank you.
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arbee
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Post by arbee on Feb 7, 2024 10:01:13 GMT
This a link to alludo that goes back to 2020 so it may help a bit.
Takes a minute or so to open so be patient.
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Post by shengsi on Feb 7, 2024 15:48:27 GMT
Think we need a mirror program I tried httrack web site copier, but did not work well. www.httrack.com/I suppose I did something wrong.
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