[Coco] "I had a Dream".

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

Stephen,

My memory has apparently failed me. I recalled that Luis was in charge of the
team (he and I corresponded in English), but apparently you were running the
show. I sincerely apologize for forgetting this.

Your DSL should allow you to execute regular FTP commands, no? Renaming the
files is sufficient to move them where they belong. And as part of the
renaming, you could add indicator codes (such as [CHECK!]) to the filenames to
show that these were not yet validated (or whatever you and Luis did earlier).
At their leisure, others could check them and the indicator could be removed.

That way, no download/upload is necessary for you.

As for hard links, I had NO idea people were linking to individual files or
directories on the FTP site. That's a really bad idea! All the names have
always been in flux, except for ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/ itself.

I leave your original message below for others to consider.

(PS: Forgetting who was working on this, I reset the password.)

Dennis


On Tue, December 22, 2015 1:37 pm, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> I have determined tentatively that there are only two (2) files added since
> the snapshot in Feb. 2015.
>
> My plan, which may fail due to no "workers" following my instructions
> available, is to move the files under my "orders" first to new folders, then
> move those folders to the partially prepared folders that Luis created and
> then to the final places. Using the snapshot only.
>
> New uploads will not occur to MM until the new snapshot is finished and
> downloads will be frozen at one point, perhaps forever as MM has no download
> limits. It will remain for files that we wish to keep that should not be
> available for download. Let archive.org handle the load.
>
> That was my plan at one time with Luis but I never started because he cannot
> read English but Spanish only. Then I grew very unhappy with his programming
> and then stepped communicating with him.
>
> My DSL line speeds posted in a message before precluded my doing the
> operations directly.
>
> The new image would be posted on archive.org first for those "I want it ALL",
> "I want it NOW", and at "four times light speed" which is in progress with the
> bad copy.
>
> It would be impossible to meet all the requirements of Dennis and others in
> the final cleanup. All hard links will be broken!
>
> If there are no workers, then I will have no part.
>
> I could do the job alone given a snapshot on a Segate 1TB USB drive which I
> have two so far, but then the "Workers" will not be part of the process
> checking my instructions, asking questions and making suggestions.
>
> Bill has said he is too busy, others have said they would and nothing happened
> and no one has stepped up with the knowledge that I have. (I am over
> qualified.)
>
> I would be just as happy continuing watching B&W TV from 1950.