Problems ?

[Ramon WilsonParticipant @ramonwilson3]

Hi Guys (those in the know that is)

I note my user name has now changed to Ramon Wilson ‘3’.

I opened my profile to change this back to the original only to find I have ‘no activity’ listed and that I do not have the right to access the profile. I can only assume the former is due to the ‘new’ name but the latter I have no idea why.

Also I can’t find ‘my albums’ yet having checked the marine engine thread I see the images are still embedded – where are they stored and how do I access them to update them when required

Any help to get me back up and running as before would be much appreciated as I can’t seem to find the way myself.

Best regards – Ramon (Tug)

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Tug, your albums weren’t transferred over to the new forum, but any pictures embedded in posts have come over OK.
You can find your own posts by logging onto your own profile, going to Forums and exploring these three tabs.

The inability to display your profile is a known and reported error, so hopefully will be fixed eventually.
You can however access and update it via;
Profile > Settings > Profile Visibility > scroll down to “About Yourself”
Hopefully you can update that, ready for when it again becomes visible to yourself and others.

There’s further discussion here;

How to find ALL your old posts

Regarding your old albums, there’s a possibility that they may be available on archive.org, as discussed in this post, but it’s by no means a certainty, as it depends upon what their web crawler has archived.

Lost my photos on new forum.

Bill

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Re. your user name, it’s change is explained on the help page under FAQ 4

Why can’t I change my username?
Once a username has been set this can’t be changed. If your username has been migrated over from our old forum (pre-September 2023) this may have changed due to incompatible characters on the new system.

Mine was one which didn’t change, as it was all lower case without spaces.

Bill

[Ramon WilsonParticipant @ramonwilson3]

Thanks for the info Bill 👍

I have tried as you suggest and have accessed my profile but it appears it can’t be changed as you say.

The non transfer of albums is a pity but I have checked the Marine Engine thread and those images are still embedded at least. The inability to be able to refer to those I had stored in folders is a blow though. I’m afraid I simply don’t have the time (or indeed the inclination) to do anything to redress that. Can I assume with no albums that a new image can be embedded directly in the text?

BTW I noticed on that thread my name as was with a small @Ramon Wilson 3 below. I wonder if this post will be the same or under the new user name 🙄

Thanks again for taking the time – much appreciated.

 

Best – Tug

 

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Tug, as I read things, you can choose to display your forum name according to your preference, and you now seem to be showing as Raymon Wilson (blue underlined) which will act as a hyperlink to your user name profile
@raymonwilson3 .
I don’t recall what your user name was on the previous iteration of the forum, but for sake of argument, lets say it was also “Raymon Wilson”; (mine was, and still is, peak4).
User Names on this new forum are restricted, and must be lower case, without spaces, so when your old User Name was trasferred over, it lost any capitals or spaces, and became @ramonwilson3, which is fixed and can’t be changed; I’ve no idea if there is, or ever was another profile on the old forum which might have come over as @ramonwilson1 or @ramonwilson2 for that matter.

edit- I hadn’t expected my “AT raymonwilson1” comment above to be translated as a hyperlink, so I don’t know if it’s a real account that has come over, empty or other wise, of whether it’s a false lead.
I wonder where @peak5 will take me, as I’m pretty sure that was never an account
@peak5

Personally I’ve left my own display name as peak4, the same as the previous forum for continuity, though I might change it to Bill Williams at some point in the future; this has tranferred over here as user name @peak4; (note that in my case, the “4” was already part of both my displayed name, and user account name).

When you’re eventually able to see my user profile, it will eaplain that “peak4” used to me my radio call sign on the UK Motorsports Association safety frequency from when I was a recovery marshal on UK car rallies.
I use it on many forums, as well as Flickr and Facebook

Bill

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Ramon, you can just drag and drop an image into the reply from your PC etc now. Click the image icon when the cursor is where you want the image and then drag from say File Explorer if using a Windows PC

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[peak4Participant @peak4]

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[Ramon WilsonParticipant @ramonwilson3]

Oh dear guys what have I started😲

Seriously thank you all for the replies – I think I have it now but your advice may help others.

I see my last post has ‘Ramon Wilson’ at the top with the username (with the @ and 3) below. That’s just fine and is how I wanted it when I first saw the change. All’s well on that issue then.

Thanks for the input on the images too Jason I will now install new folders on my PC for any new images that can be referred too if required so all is not as bad as first thought.

The one thing that does get a big thumbs up is the auto spell checker – a big improvement.

BTW Bill there’s no Y (or D) in Ramon 😊

Thanks again everyone, I think I can sleep a bit easier tonight 😊

 

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Ramon WilsonParticipant @ramonwilson3]

Ha! You’re not the first Bill 😊 Not an issue at all.

Apart from my initial difficulties the Forum appears much better for me – basic typing and inserting images much easier.

There will surely be faults that others will find but overall I think it’s a good improvement so a big thanks should go to all those who must have spent many, many hours seeing the job through.

I have little to post about ME wise at the moment but am quite satisfied I should be able to without any real problems in coming days

My thanks again to all – Ramon (Tug)

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