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Originally Posted by Old-Git

Greta mod and I've been looking for something like this for a while.



I don't want to grab every image that is posted to my forum, just the ones worthy of keeping. What I want to do is

1.) Create some archive forums for storing threads that are worthy of retention

2.) My archives are structured under one Category called Archives. Under that there are 7 or 8 other Sub-categories for historical eras. Under each sub-category there are 3 sub-forums.

3.) only Admins will be allowed to post in the Archives

4.) When Admin move a thread from normal posting forums to the 'Archive' forums all external images are then 'grabbed' and moved to localhost store (either in database or file system). This would mean the mod would have to treat a moved thread as a new post.

In my opinion this would make the perfect archiving solution and would mean I wasn't saving every piece of crud my users posted to the forums, just the stuff that needs saving. Yes, there's a manual element to it but then archiving is very much a manual process. So the ability to exclude all forums and set specific forums would be essential in this process.

Rgds

Pete

Yeah, I agree

The philosophy of this plugin is however less archiving than saving images from disappearing over time. However, you may change the parsed sections and subfolders from time to time and achieve then a kind of archiving feature as you describe.