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

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

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_Guile: If you need your password reset, PM me your Vault username and I'll reset it. (edit: have you any idea how many "guile" names are on the Vault :-P )

IRT the Vault fading away any time soon, doubtful.

There is still a lot of traffic on the site and IGN would want to move that traffic to another portion of *their* IP, not lose it completely. When they start to lure NwN1 & NwN2 users to a different IGN site, that's when we should *really* worry.

What's DEFINITELY going on is our community is once (ok two or three times) burned and twice shy. We are cynical and just *waiting* to say "I *knew* it! Arrgggggg!".

Heh.

Admittedly, IGN isn't going to confide their deepest <darkest> plans to a mere site-admin-volunteer, but there also aren't any "symptoms" of abandoning the Vault, from an admin standpoint.

Still, I want my own copy of everything :-) 'Cuz I'm crazy like that. :-P

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                     Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 12 mai 2012 - 05:54 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Knight_Shield]

               How much storage am I going to need to download website..any clue?I havent been able to get to the store so if I can fit it on a hardrive I have then I will.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tchos]

               My archive of the English Modules section for NWN2 is 27.6 GB, and that section has 17 pages of content.  The NWN1 English module section has 232 pages of content, so I expect the storage would be quite larger, even factoring in a smaller size for NWN1 modules compared to NWN2.  You would need to make an estimate of the average module sizes for NWN1 modules, and then you can estimate the necessary storage space for the NWN1 English module section.

The Hall of Fame module section has only 24 pages of content.

Then of course there are all the other file sections, but I considered the module sections, along with their required hakpacks, to be the highest priority.  Also, be sure to save a copy of the file's description web page, since many modules don't include a readme file with the same information.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tchos, 12 mai 2012 - 10:40 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Knight_Shield]

               Ok I have a tool httrack but I think it only copies pages and not downloads.Can anyone verify this?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy__Guile]

               Yeah I got about 25 GB sitting on my 2 TB HDD.. '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_QlippothVI]

                I'll bite, is there any way for a more efficient method for getting all the data? Can we use a contact at IGN to do this for us? I can supply a drive. I'm also in Berkeley, so I could physically get over to the SF office if it would help. Of course, the physical machines could be in another country...
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_QlippothVI]

               Also, this just launched recently: http://neverwinter.n...com/articles/1/
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Knight_Shield]

               I think I have 500 +web pages but did not get download files with it.I ran httrack set to 2 links deep.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Knight_Shield, 17 mai 2012 - 12:03 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tchos]

               You might need to specify what kinds of files to download.  File types like zip, rar, 7z, and others.  Also, sometimes there are split files, which have other extensions, like part1, part2, etc., or r01, r02.

Also, some authors put up uncompressed files, including 2da, mod, and others, as well as documentation in the form of txt, pdf, doc, rtf, and more.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tchos]

               ignore double post
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tchos, 17 mai 2012 - 03:22 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_simomate2]

               Regardless of if its shutting down, we should still try and preserve all the modules, haks etc. I mean seriously, if the Vault were to suddenly shut down, we would lose practically EVERYTHING. I don't even know if I'd bother to play NWN anymore after that.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_DragonLordOldShool]

                Good point. The fileplanet files go back 13/15 years in the gaming cultura that is a long time. They should create a fundation or give it away to the wikipedia foundation. Thats history right there. Its going to be locked away or deleted. Game creators gona lose a source of inspiration. 

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[Legacy_NWN_baba yaga]

               Anybody else has just a black screen when going to the nwvault page atm. The whole ign sites are like that for me!
When I think about a database loss someday or something like that there...uh the horror
               
               

               

                     Modifié par NWN_baba yaga, 19 juillet 2012 - 07:09 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               I'm able to load the http://nwvault.ign.com/ site with no trouble, must be something local for you.

Be well. Game on.
GM_ODA