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matt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:35 am In the battle to fix corrupted uploads, the board went through a series of restore processes, so if things seemed to go missing or revert to an earlier state for a while, that was why. This should be done at this point.

Unfortunately, whatever uploaded images or CAD files or macros or zips that got corrupted are irretrievable. I hired some help, and they weren't able to explain it or fix it. I apologize. There was some evidence of hacking.
That's the best explanation I've heard, but not totally convincing.

Anyway, we are back up and running using a restore from yesterday afternoon, so any changes or settings or other database transactions that took place between about 10 pm last night and 11 am this morning have also been lost, but everything else should be there.

Everything is a learning experience, so there are some new testing and security protocols going into place. Thanks for your patience. Return to whatever you were doing.

mike miller wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:03 pm
Sorry, Matt. I didn't mean to take the site down when I broke in.

matt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:35 am Return to whatever you were doing.

bnemec wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:24 pm Matt, are you sure you want to apply that comment to everyone here?

matt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:35 am There was some evidence of hacking.

mike miller wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:03 pm
Sorry, Matt. I didn't mean to take the site down when I broke in.

dpihlaja wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:24 am Just wanted to say thank you Matt for taking the time, energy, and apparently money to run this site. I hope that you can see the returns that you are getting on it, as it (so far) has kept the same type of social gathering that it was in the old SW forums.

So I just wanted to say that I really appreciate it.

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:59 am Matt,..something just happened while viewing different pages,.. I was logged in but then was logged out?... are there two different web servers?

matt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:04 pm A couple other people have mentioned this happened when they were trying to download something from the Download extension, or possibly download an attachment that was stored in the Download area. The Upload/Download extension may be buggy.

No, there are not two different web servers.

Or was it something else?

matt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:04 pm A couple other people have mentioned this happened when they were trying to download something from the Download extension, or possibly download an attachment that was stored in the Download area. The Upload/Download extension may be buggy.

No, there are not two different web servers.

Or was it something else?

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:38 pm Bingo!.. it was a "Download"... sorry, don't remember what it was, I clicked and.... it's gone (will try to find and post)

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:38 pm Bingo!.. it was a "Download"... sorry, don't remember what it was, I clicked and.... it's gone (will try to find and post)

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:50 pm ..here are the pages which kick me out..

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=47
app.php/downloadsystemdownload?id=14

matt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:53 pm Thanks for that. I tried both of those links with my moderator account "matt" in chrome, and a user account "honk" in MS Edge, and I didn't get booted. I'll go back to the developer and see if this is something we can fix.

matt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:44 pm OK, thanks. That is at least good to know. I thought the Download extension was a good idea, but as the Admin is the only one who can upload, and now this logging out problem, I'm less excited about it.

Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:18 pm Looks like I can upload now. Am I supposed to be able to?
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matt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:30 pm

Yeah, actually! They hid the switch pretty well, but I found it eventually. We have 3 categories for upload stuff right now: cad files, macros/api, and documents. Let me know if you think of additional categories of upload stuff.

matt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:30 pm

Yeah, actually! They hid the switch pretty well, but I found it eventually. We have 3 categories for upload stuff right now: cad files, macros/api, and documents. Let me know if you think of additional categories of upload stuff.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:17 am Hey Matt,

About the upload, I just tried uploading one of the macros I use on there and it said .swp extensions are not allowed. Do you want us zipping them?