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Emoticons in older blog entries
Posted by
fishers64
on Nov 18 2012 - 11:11 PM
In all blog entries posted before the Downtime (prior to October 2011), the emoticons do not work. Case in point:
(I just randomly stole an old blog entry that I knew had emotes in it.
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Anyway, I am confused as to why they are broken, and wonder if that can be fixed. The copied entries from the old board refer to .gif files, which is what the emoticons from the old board are. However, the emoticons in the archive work, which means that the files still exist. Is there a reasonable way to make that accessible to the blog entries so the emotes will display?
I also note, if it helps, that the emotes for the new board are a different file type. They are PNGs.
(I just randomly stole an old blog entry that I knew had emotes in it.
)Anyway, I am confused as to why they are broken, and wonder if that can be fixed. The copied entries from the old board refer to .gif files, which is what the emoticons from the old board are. However, the emoticons in the archive work, which means that the files still exist. Is there a reasonable way to make that accessible to the blog entries so the emotes will display?
I also note, if it helps, that the emotes for the new board are a different file type. They are PNGs.
As you said, the old emoticons are GIF files, while on the new board they're PNGs. The emoticons use a relative file path, so they're looking for the GIF files in the /board directory, which only has the PNG files.
I can look into copying the GIF files to the new instance, but I just need to make sure that doing so won't mess up the new emoticons.
I can look into copying the GIF files to the new instance, but I just need to make sure that doing so won't mess up the new emoticons.
Theoretically if you copy in .gif files with .png it won't overwrite anything, it'll just be added space. Just my $0.02 USD.
Yes, but I want to make sure the software doesn't try to start using the GIFs again and some posts have PNG emoticons and others use GIF.
If the file saying which string corresponds to which emoticon makes no mention of the GIF ones, there should be no problem.
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So it turns out the images were there - that wasn't the problem. It problem was the directory in which they were stored has changed, which meant the old blog entries that were pointing at the old files couldn't find them. I've made a copy of the images in the directory the old blog entries are looking for and I'm seeing emoticons in the entries now.
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