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No access to profile photos tonight

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Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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Well, i've spent the last 5 hours redesigning the Profile Photos section. A complete overhaul of the structure. The only difference you will notice is a massive increase in performance. What I will notice is less server disk activity. The change will require me to take the profile pictures (uploading and viewing) down for 30 minutes whilst I... Rename existing profile photos, removing corrupt/dangerous characters Create new database structure reading for the change Index existing profile photos Add to database index Change existing website code to reflect new structure. Wish me luck! :-)

Matt @ 08/10/2008 15:36

Wills
In: New Brighton
Posts: 3288
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'Removing corrupt and dangerous characters...'

There'll hardly be anyone left when you've finished!

Wills @ 08/10/2008 16:02

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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haha very good. No there were some files that people had uploaded with apostrophes and exclamation marks in the names. Had to be removed. Some files are corrupt and im working on fixing them

Matt @ 08/10/2008 16:04

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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ok i've finished! You will notice a MASSIVE increase in performance, especially when viewing profile pics. No longer will it take 20 seconds or more to find your files... it's instant.

Matt @ 08/10/2008 16:08

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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by the way, this will also increase site performance too in generalm as there will be more resources now to process other pages. This is one step further in my mission to make the site faster

Matt @ 08/10/2008 16:09

Deleted Member
In: NA
Posts: 0
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...one small step for Matt, one giant leap for BMkind...

Deleted Member @ 08/10/2008 16:32

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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lol thats right. Another step towards a faster site now: I've turned down the indexing at google, so they stop hammering our server at peak times.

Matt @ 09/10/2008 08:27

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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the same fix has been applied on events now, took all night rewriting the code and database but the performance now of events photos will be 100000x faster

Matt @ 11/10/2008 22:46

Wannabe
In: Dartford
Posts: 4922
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Could you check out the Oakdene Meet photo page please Matt? (12th Oct)

Someone's managed to get one pic up, but the page isn't opening for me now and I'm getting an error code up. (Last night and this morning)

I'll try again sometime tonight and copy the code in case you're not getting the same.

Cheers.

Wannabe @ 14/10/2008 07:17

Karey
In: Barnsley
Posts: 6971
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Mornin Lou/Matt I've just looked theres one pic, and an error msge for me too. Any chance of making the pic bigger?

Karey @ 14/10/2008 08:03

Wannabe
In: Dartford
Posts: 4922
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Hi Kaz - it's not one of mine - I haven't uploaded mine yet.

& now not in the mood after the phone call I've just had :o(

Wannabe @ 14/10/2008 08:11

Deleted Member
In: NA
Posts: 0
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not good Lou

Deleted Member @ 14/10/2008 09:52

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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its because someone has uploaded a file with a .jpg extension that is NOT a jpg file! Hence it's tiny, with big red borders and the error means that the site's program which calculates the size isn't able to load the image (Cos it's not a jpg, as it expects). This is why we need to upload only jpg files, and not files with jpg extensions that are actually PNG or GIF files. PNG and GIF files are fine, as long as they have the appropriate png or gif extension, and not jpg

Matt @ 14/10/2008 10:22

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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PS its fixed not lol. I converted the picture to a jpg

Matt @ 14/10/2008 10:23

Wannabe
In: Dartford
Posts: 4922
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Cheers Matt... I'm suspecting Mr Biceps... I think I saw him brandishing a camera. I shall have him flogged forthwith. Even if it's not him!

Wannabe @ 14/10/2008 13:46

Deleted Member
In: NA
Posts: 0
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*wipes forehead* ...there, but for the grace of God... ...then again...

Deleted Member @ 14/10/2008 16:28

Karey
In: Barnsley
Posts: 6971
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hey XK..sum good pics of the rally

Karey @ 14/10/2008 16:34

Oggy
In: Ely. Cambs
Posts: 2196
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Been trying to change my profile pic for the last few days & it keeps coming back with Server.MapPath()Error /ASP 0173:80004005 Invalidpathcharacter /sites/bm/myaccounts/showphotos.ASP, What's happening here?,not my pc is it?

Oggy @ 23/10/2008 17:53

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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thats not good. is it just one pic or all?

Matt @ 23/10/2008 18:00

Matt
In: Veldhoven
Posts: 8067
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mine works ok. U must have a bad character in one of your file names. Delete the foto causing problems, rename it on your computer and only use LETTERS AND NUMBERS. Then re-upload it and it will be fine

Matt @ 23/10/2008 18:03

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