It's actually a kind of a scary thing to watch in operation, the page shows you which threads/posts it is converting.... If you set it for too few posts per cycle it takes FOREVER.. I think I settled on something like 1,000 and it still took a long time.

But that's to be expected when you're going back 100s of 1000s of posts, retro.

Thanks for the update as well as new features Mark.
I tried to "Like" your first post but was not allowed as I have liked to many of your post.... (Another thread topic)

I have a vague idea of what happened. And it's likely my fault. Your YouTube definition didn't exist. I'm not sure if this was because of my upgrade instructions to delete YouTube in advanced (which I didn't clarify you only need to do upon upgrade from 2.5.6), or because some definitions were overwritten with different replacement content, but the names didn't change. So you might have deleted YouTube, since it wasn't actually called YouTube.

In any event, I had to delete four defs you did have. 220 and both 2KSports will need to be reimported. I went ahead and added YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and replaced Amazon, since these were the five that incorrectly imported during upgrade. I'll address this install bug on the next update.

Thanks!

You rock!

D.

Happens to me all the time. :)


I've heard tell just adding the column to post table took literally a couple of hours on some installations. The several million posts boards. I can understand the trepidation.

No problem. Sorry for the confusion. :)

See the PM from my site I just sent you.

Not out of the wood yet. :(

D.

I totally forgot to mention a couple of things. I didn't run the convert script again, since that would require you to do a database backup before taking that measure again. So older links wouldn't convert just yet.

Also, I believe because of the https://, I have to allow any videos to appear in my browser on my end. So everything's blank until I click the security message in Chrome. Probably seeing something similar in your browser.

And eBay. The eBay def broke a while back, (as eBay change a lot about their URL structure) and has been totally rewritten for my next update. So for now, that one just won't work. You may be interested in waiting for the new one, however. It looks something like this:

https://www.diigo.com/item/p/pebbaaz...11f641b987bd2f

Without the option to choose how many are processed per cycle it would have been a days long affair! :eek:

It worked very slick though, very impressive.

I'll try to put this in the FAQ a little later, but if you're website is running an SSL certificate, you need to tweak your definition slightly in order to fully support external embedding.

Find the source URL in your respective definitions' Replacement HTML:
Add an s.

Of course, the respective website needs to actually provide https URLs. Most do. A few don't. But relatively easy to check, and easy enough to tweak for your most used websites.