Jack
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The internet speed in my area is fucking shit at the moment and i posted a offline copy of the forum last year (26-12-19) and i wanted to save all the sermons in the important articles by the clergy subforum till date. However i didn't realize that the previous sermons and the newly posted sermons aren't being arranged in sequence of date by every new reply in any of the sermons is bumping it up the queue. Its absolute mayhem and saving it from 26-12-19 manually would be impossible. Since i can't use Httrack due to low internet speed (thanx lockdown), i figured i'd register the help of someone here who can do this shit. Its completely easy like a child can do it and i'm going to show you step-by-step. There's just massive value on this forum and we need to fucking save this all ,just to be on the save side
https://ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41229
Anyone with high internet speed and a lot of free time can do this so follow along if someone wants pls help.
The first thing you need to understand is that you CANNOT save the entire forum at once. Don't ask me why, its just not happening.I've tried it and you get numerous bullshit errors after wasting 15gbs of data (my friend tried this.) What you have to do is you have to save all of it, with EACH SUBFORUM INDIVIDUALLY. Some of the Subforums with low number of posts an material will be saved pretty quickly but the Subforum JoyofSatan666 main forum will take a huge amount of time (with people's avatars,the pictures they posted and a fucking 7000+ post count.). Save each subforum in descending order of post count to save maximum efficiency. And if you have low internet speed down even think about trying this, it'll take fucking too long and a lot of errors and bullshit with some pages not opening. And here's another thing ,even if you have high internet speed some of the pages might not open. It will usually be in the middle page numbers where number of requests are exceeded and you'll notice the entire list of sermons on that page number may not be saved,if it happens. And then you'll have to save them manually afterwards but thats insignificant to the amount of material you'll save.
So open https://ancient-forums.com/ on your browser (you do not need to log in)
Now go down to the Subforum you wish to save offline and open it (here im using the example of Important sermons forum)
The link here is the subforum link which we need,copy this
Open your HTTRACK program
Project name and category don't matter just name it whatever, and remember the path of the folder where you save this (make a new folder in one of your drives before this)
In the Action drop down menu select (Download Multiple Mirror) (1)
Paste the subforum link you copied earlier in the Web addreses bar (2)
It'll look something like this, then click on Set options
Then click on the 'Build' Tab
Check the 'No External Pages' Option,
Then click okay and next and next until it starts and wait for it to finish ,then go to the folder where you saved it and check if its working or not
Open the Index file,
Click the blue thing,
Now you'll see the offline copy,go to a page number in the middle and check if the sermons are working, for example
Congratulations, your job is done. Now you have to compress the entire folder, split it into parts (for easier downloads) and upload it to mega and share the link here. Download 7-Zip (don't use winrar pls, its not at par with 7-zip)
So right click the folder go to 7-zip and click on add to archive.
Change the Compress level to ultra and copy all the other settings and split the files to 700 mb,click okay thats it.
Now just make a mega account using a free protonmail and upload it if you don't have one already and share the links here. Don't try to improvise and play hackerman if you don't know what your doing. You literally have to play this step by step and do nothing else and we'll have a nice little offline copy.
Also if someone is attempting to do this ,please reply on the topic and say which subforum your doing so others DONT do that. It'll be a waste of time for everyone to do the same task. Divide your labour. Saving the Main forum will require a hell of a lot of internet speed and data i can tell you that.
Reqquired software
https://www.7-zip.org/
https://www.httrack.com/
https://megasync.en.softonic.com/ (for uploading to mega,don't use full sync if you don't wannna waste data and you only want to upload this.)
https://ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41229
Anyone with high internet speed and a lot of free time can do this so follow along if someone wants pls help.
The first thing you need to understand is that you CANNOT save the entire forum at once. Don't ask me why, its just not happening.I've tried it and you get numerous bullshit errors after wasting 15gbs of data (my friend tried this.) What you have to do is you have to save all of it, with EACH SUBFORUM INDIVIDUALLY. Some of the Subforums with low number of posts an material will be saved pretty quickly but the Subforum JoyofSatan666 main forum will take a huge amount of time (with people's avatars,the pictures they posted and a fucking 7000+ post count.). Save each subforum in descending order of post count to save maximum efficiency. And if you have low internet speed down even think about trying this, it'll take fucking too long and a lot of errors and bullshit with some pages not opening. And here's another thing ,even if you have high internet speed some of the pages might not open. It will usually be in the middle page numbers where number of requests are exceeded and you'll notice the entire list of sermons on that page number may not be saved,if it happens. And then you'll have to save them manually afterwards but thats insignificant to the amount of material you'll save.
So open https://ancient-forums.com/ on your browser (you do not need to log in)
Now go down to the Subforum you wish to save offline and open it (here im using the example of Important sermons forum)
The link here is the subforum link which we need,copy this
Open your HTTRACK program
Project name and category don't matter just name it whatever, and remember the path of the folder where you save this (make a new folder in one of your drives before this)
In the Action drop down menu select (Download Multiple Mirror) (1)
Paste the subforum link you copied earlier in the Web addreses bar (2)
It'll look something like this, then click on Set options
Then click on the 'Build' Tab
Check the 'No External Pages' Option,
Then click okay and next and next until it starts and wait for it to finish ,then go to the folder where you saved it and check if its working or not
Open the Index file,
Click the blue thing,
Now you'll see the offline copy,go to a page number in the middle and check if the sermons are working, for example
Congratulations, your job is done. Now you have to compress the entire folder, split it into parts (for easier downloads) and upload it to mega and share the link here. Download 7-Zip (don't use winrar pls, its not at par with 7-zip)
So right click the folder go to 7-zip and click on add to archive.
Change the Compress level to ultra and copy all the other settings and split the files to 700 mb,click okay thats it.
Now just make a mega account using a free protonmail and upload it if you don't have one already and share the links here. Don't try to improvise and play hackerman if you don't know what your doing. You literally have to play this step by step and do nothing else and we'll have a nice little offline copy.
Also if someone is attempting to do this ,please reply on the topic and say which subforum your doing so others DONT do that. It'll be a waste of time for everyone to do the same task. Divide your labour. Saving the Main forum will require a hell of a lot of internet speed and data i can tell you that.
Reqquired software
https://www.7-zip.org/
https://www.httrack.com/
https://megasync.en.softonic.com/ (for uploading to mega,don't use full sync if you don't wannna waste data and you only want to upload this.)
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