Please do not send pictures to Snapzilla this evening

Removed original post since problem has been worked around while a resolution is worked on by LL.

Sorry, that must be a nightmare

I've confirmed this personally--looks like the first snapz it broke on happened to be one of my wedding pictures! It happened so suddenly and I am getting in touch with the right Lindens and supplying the info Ano gave... wish I had more details at this time but as I didn't hear any preemptive info about the changes, plus, this is a general problem as Postcards themselves will have that odd image of a bridge in them (Snapshot_026.jpg), it looks unintentional as a bug.

pouts

Ok crisis averted for now, I managed to find a way to handle the problem until LL can resolve it. I was able to recover some pictures, but not all - and I have not cleaned up the screwed up ones yet, so excuse the mess. I will keep an eye on it - if you notice any problems, feel free to send me an email at [email]cristiano@sluniverse.com[/email]. Hopefully this will be resolved very quickly tomorrow.

i miss crapzilla too!

Oh wow... just when I was getting ready to send in a bunch of nude photos...

Wow, that thread explains a lot.

Don't fix what isn't broken...important lesson, how many times will it be taught..great this means maintenance today. A FIFTH morning in a row ruined. Quit with the f****** updates.

All but one of our Valentine's wedding pictures sent to Snapzilla were lost Good thing I saved several as textures, but I'm wondering if there's any way to send those images to snapzilla. I was trying to create a wedding album.

Thank you Cristiano and also, Torley (who had also just married SL love, Jade Lily), for working so hard to fix this issue. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's Valentine's Day pictures!

Yeah, we should have all been happy with the alpha release of SL. That muscle-beach animation rocks.

All the constant updates annoy me.. if i don't want a new feature I shouldn't have to download it and suffer on one of my 2 days off (after working nights 5 days in a row) with the downtime.

Give us the option. Stop constantly small updating. Get rid of the resmod program.

Actually, part of the update was planned, I have been aware of it since before version 1.8 came out and had already programmed in support for the change whenever it happened. The single change was supposed to be the inclusion of the Z coordinate in the location information. Apparently, this update was applied a week ago and went as planned, but then got overwritten by a system update. When it was reapplied yesterday afternoon, the resulting postcard format was different than expected - the main filename of the postcard changed, its position in the postcard changed, and a picture of a bridge was attached to each postcard.

These are all bugs and will hopefully be resolved today, though I am now dreading the resolution as I have to fix it all over again. I will watch very carefully today to try to stop the processing as soon as any update happens in case they don't notify me in advance - if you see any problems with the site, please email me at [email]cristiano@sluniverse.com[/email] or IM me on Yahoo - my id is in my profile here.

I feel for ya amig0, but updates are necessary to keep moving forward. I'm guessing here, but LL probably looked at traffic patterns and employee availability before making their decision. I'm getting better performance out of 1.8 that I have out of any other version of SL, and its much more feature-rich. Hopefully LL can continue to address some of the performance issues that others are seeing through these upgrades.

Regards,

-Flip

Then they can make a feature where all future updates are patches and the grid isn't shut down.

I'm fine with the current version..don't shut me out because others want more.

I don't think the filename changed, the email just has a whole bunch of extra attachments. My old postcards are named "secondlife-postcard.jpg" and my site which also accepts postcards was not affected by this change (though now I am expecting it to be broken by the fix). Are you just hardcoding which attachment number the postcard is?

You know on seond glance at old code you are right, it didn't change - I was scrambling with a bunch of stuff last night and thought that it had. In the email component I am using, I can't extract by name, but I can pull out the attachment by position. In a year and over 53,000 postcards, the position has remained the same so it has never been an issue -and was not an issue in the original update last week, only the revised one yeserday.

Are ya back up yet Cristiano? (sorry I don't feel like searching threw this thread) We misses our little dragon Snappy

Hey Cris - The change/look at pics from a previous date pulldown feature doesn't seem to be working since this problem.