Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:38:12 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bungalow Halloween Photos
From: Michael Nelson <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> wrote:
> Mike Bartman wrote:
>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>> Michael Nelson wrote:
>>>> http://razimir.smugmug.com/Holidays/Halloween-2010-at-the-Fabulous/
>
>>> Thanks. =A0I have extracted all 117 jpegs referenced at that URL, and
>>> stored them in a tar file on Panix to download to my Apple laptop
>>> -- the only machine I have that does graphics -- this weekend, so I
>>> can view them.
>
>>> Apparently most of them are quite small.
>
>> The page shows thumbnails on the left, and one full image on
>> the right. =A0You may have grabbed the thumbnails. =A0The site is
>> script-driven, so it's likely that you can only get all the images
>> full size by using a scripting browser...or perhaps analyzing the
>> scripts to find the URLs to the actual files and then fetching them.
>
> Thanks. =A0I have broken the code. =A0The thumbnails all end with Ti.jpg.
> Changing that to Th.jpg, S.jpg, and D.jpg gets me larger and larger
> image files, which are presumably the same photo in four different
> resolutions. =A0There are 104 or 105 such set of four files (some
> variants are missing). =A0There are 107 files on the Facebook page.
> Are these the same images? =A0None of the Facebook files are identical
> to any of the Smugmug files, and the Facebook files are all dated
> December 31, 2007 or December 31, 2008.

There should be 104 photos in the Facebook album.  They are the same
image.  Facebook automatically reduces the resolution to 480 x 720
pixels when you upload photos to their site to save room.

Here and there I have deleted a few of the photos.  Both sites may
still keep the files, which would be why you would see varying file
numbers.

> The total size is about 400 megabytes. =A0At 9600 bps that would take
> about two full days to download. =A0Skipping the highest resolution set
> would knock it down to 9 megabytes, which would take a more reasonable
> three hours, so I'll probably do that, and come back the following
> weekend for the highest resolution versions of the pictures that I
> want to inspect under a (virtual) magnifying glass, if any.
>
> There's plenty of room on the laptop for all the high resolution
> images, but then I'd no longer be able to back up all my files onto
> a 4 gig thumb drive. =A0(I have several, one of which is always in my
> pocket, and two of which are buried in the woods.)
>
> (And I do mean *all* my files. =A0*Millions* of emails and newsgroup
> postings, some dating back over 30 years. =A0Plus the complete WSFA
> website as of when I resigned as webmaster. =A0And much more.)
>
> I don't have room to store all these image files permantnly on Panix,
> either, but I can keep them in the /tmp directory until the next
> reboot. =A0And that will probably be a while, as the current uptime is
> 95 days. =A0Of course I could always grab another copy of the set from
> Smugmug if I lose this copy, but that might cost Mike money.

I pay an annual fee for unlimited storage room on Smugmug.  There is
no addition cost for downloading.  (Of course, nobody has downloaded
files to the degree you have done.  There could be some monthly limit
I never encountered before.)

Michael