Fileplanet is shutting down. Anyone doing anything to preserve custom content?

[Legacy_Luj1]

                So, after losing the legacy boards it seems we're going to lose the Vault as well. What's next, the Internet? Seriously.

To be honest I'm too busy salvaging Morrowind mods from PES (saved some 20GB, soon I'll be moving onto NwN) , so I was just wondering has anyone did anything about the content that's hosted on Nwvault ? I dont have Unix/Cygwin at the moment so I can't use Wget to download the entire website. And I can't even start to imagine the ammount of other data that'll be lost - gamesites.ign.com (scroll down)

Regards,
Lujone
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Luj1, 08 mai 2012 - 01:09 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               As far as I know, Fileplanet and the Vault are two different entities within IGN.  I haven't seen anything about shutting down the Vault.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lightfoot8]

               I agree with AD.    Can you give more information on why you thing the vault is shutting down.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Urk]

               I'm pretty sure AD is right. Planet Neverwinter was indeed a different IGN site. It was part of the FilePlanet hub.
http://www.fileplanet.com/

I used to loot Planet Neverwinter for scripts back in the day. They had a beautifully organized script archive back then. I'm not even sure it's still around. I did a search for it and the Planet Neverwinter pages seem to have quietly slipped away already. All the vault links to Planet Neverwinter are redirecting to the vault network.

I wish I'd known I would have tried to preserve some of those cool old scripts.

Some of the old community sites seem to have survived. Planet Elder Scrolls and Planet Fallout are still around, but it look like they've been migrated to Gamespy's domain.

EDIT: Yup. I found several old links to Planet Neverwinter. The old domain, http://www.planetneverwinter.com/, is being permanently redirected to http://nwvault.ign.com/.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Urk, 08 mai 2012 - 03:45 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               Is there anything to this rumor? Link follows:

http://www.gamefront...ose-fileplanet/
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ehye_khandee, 08 mai 2012 - 12:49 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Leurnid]

               Usually when game resource sites like fileplanet are aquired by a conglomerate of game resource sites, like IGN, the goal is to debrand the site to make it less appealing, migrate the intellectual (files) and physical (employees) to a branded site they promote, and as the user base dwindles, stop maintaining it, let it choke out most of it's users, and then delete it, redirecting to their branded site.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Luj1]

               Ok a friend told me that the NWN vault doesn't use fileplanet to host its files. Can anyone confirm this?

Regardless, Fileplanet *is* going down, wonder what will that entail.

ehye_khandee wrote...

Is there anything to this rumor? Link follows:

http://www.gamefront...ose-fileplanet/

Yes, that's what I'm talking about.[/quote]

Note: FilePlanet is no longer being updated and is in the process of being archived

               
               

               

                     Modifié par Luj1, 08 mai 2012 - 05:25 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Luj1]

               Ok scrap that. It seems there is reason to worry after all. I asked DarkOne about this (the guy who opened a Nexus site for NWN/NWN2). This was his response. PS It also explains the questions raised in this thread here - Is anyone paing attention at the vault? by HSeldon - http://social.biowar.../index/11936333

As far as I'm aware the Vault sites (NWN included) are going to experience a similar fate as PES. While not directly tied to File Planet as such (though I can imagine the background hardware is actually one and the same between the Vault and Planet sites), the technical staff are definitely one and the same. So the owners, the programmers, server technicians and engineers are not working on either the Planet or Vault sites. Case in point, the Vault site password retrieval system hasn't worked for months now and won't be fixed. So any old, returning members cannot retrieve their user info. It's the reason why folks from the NWN community reached out and asked if I'd setup a NWN Nexus for them; because they wanted somewhere to archive their files for when the inevitable happens.

               
               

               

                     Modifié par Luj1, 08 mai 2012 - 11:15 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Knight_Shield]

               If one wants to start downloaded stuff from the vault what is the quickest way ? 

How do I download the entire website ?
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Knight_Shield, 08 mai 2012 - 11:34 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <waffling...>

Luj1: Interesting response.

From my own talks with Maximus, IGN isn't planning to let slip the Vault anytime soon. They are also, however, not going to invest heavily in it either. Hence the email system degradation (which is the problem with the password reset malfunction and really really annoys me).

However, Maximus and I are both quite friendly (if busy) and I, at least, would be more than happy to reset whichever returning member needs to reconnect.

As far as paying attention, well, heh. I check it on the days I have unblocked internet access (5 days a week) several times a day. I check *these* forums pretty much every day.

I value the Nexus, and encourage as much redundancy as people are willing to attempt. We've simply lost too much fantastic content over the years to risk losing more. I myself have some 50 gigs of NwN1 downloads from the vault, but would love to have a full archive backup. Like Knight_shield, I'm interested in a nice (low impact?) automated way to crawl the Vault archives and save them.

Hmmm, and this is a great place to say I help out at the Vault - I have not taken Beyond the Pale's position and don't have direct access to all that secret-stash goodness.

Doesn't mean I don't want it, though ;-)

<...between the brandy and the wine>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Luj1]

               

Knight_Shield wrote...

If one wants to start downloaded stuff from the vault what is the quickest way ? 

How do I download the entire website ?

You'd need to write a script with Wget. If you dont have an Unix based OS (If you have Windows) you'll need Cygwin or something like that.

Regards,
Lujone
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Luj1, 09 mai 2012 - 01:26 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Knight_Shield]

               EDIT:http://www.linuxjour...e-web-site-wget
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Knight_Shield, 09 mai 2012 - 01:45 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               I have around 25 gig worth of NWN stuff stashed away from the vault. Mostly from going through and deciding what I wanted to use in my own PW I am making. I can store more as well, so if I needed to I could upload it to another site later.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_DRBaker1970]

               I'm very happy to hear that someone is preserving so much of the content from the vault. I'm a windows user (gods help me) so I'm having trouble getting a Wget program to work on my NWN PC.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy__Guile]

               *sigh*

So, for clarity...

Is the nwvault.ign.com going to be "going out" or not?

I haven't been able to log in and modify stuff for quite some times...

Indeed my password is locked & I can't get it to reset either...

If anyone has a DEFINITE answer on what's going on, please post it, thanks..