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Interesting. All images in my gallery went over just fine.

I recall that the old DPR for the Great Transition to XenForo wasn't particularly easy to follow. I ended up losing my 'xpatUSA' ID there and was then unable to sign back in ... so now I am a "new" member there, ID 'xpatUSA2'. My stuff posted as xpatUSA does remain but I can't do anything with it ...

Hi,

My stuff disappeared when I went to download the gallery prior to the shutdown. It failed to download and then it no longer existed. The reply to my query about what happened resulted in some vague issue revolving around how long ago some of it was added and then a conflict with a later storage scheme.

If I hadn't gone to download, it probably would have remained. At least as long as they ran the old system for. Now, maybe it would have had the same issue when they went to the new system. I have seen similar issues with other things in the past, so I can believe that explanation.

Stan

Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer

Interesting again. I do not remember doing anything particular during transition. The only thing they increased password security and I had to add special character to my password.

Hi,

It was before the transition to the new owners. Back when it was, for sure, going to die off. And they had a way to D/L your stuff before the site went dark. So, I wanted to grab my resized photos from the gallery in case I wanted to post them elsewhere. Here, in fact. Without having to go to my archives and redo any of them. But, No Joy.

Now for some Joy: I just sent you 20 pounds for the next year. Hopefully others do as well. I was aiming for $25 USD, but then decided to just make it 20 Pounds and not try to get all smarty-pants with a conversion. Ha!

Stan

Only £10 a year? I'm in!👍🙂
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Be careful guys, almost everything related to photo forums is dying. Try to keep what you like alive, because you never know if you'll have the opportunity to encounter something like this again, in this life.

There’s probably a charge, i don’t have a clue how PayPal works. Dirk at DPR Forum uses PayPal and charges through PayPal to keep his site going.

I saw that there is the option to make the donation with credit or debit cards, which does not involve PayPal. For my part, this is the best solution.

Yes, PayPal gives the option of using your card directly, but it also allows you to add some to cover processing fees so that's the path I took. It's too bad there is no access to the database under the website. My day job is working with databases.

Hi,

Ah, yes. PP has an older email address. They don't allow a change. One has to kill the account and start over. Since I keep the older email alive for other reasons, I don't bother to change my Pay Pal.

Stan

There's a restriction for some Countries. PayPal doesn't support payment/Donations from my Country, Singapore. The recipient is DPRevived.

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Using a Credit or Debit Card didn’t work for me when I went to check how to Donate.

It looks like there are some settings in PayPal that might need to be changed. From what I can see Singapore is on the automatically accepted and converted list.

developer.paypal.com/reference/currency-codes/#payment-receiving-preferences

This is for US PayPal but I assume there are similar rules to adjust for UK.

I'm using a PayPal Personal Account, not Business. There may be or may not be a difference with regards to the block on the Countries.

For Reference this is the PayPal link from DPRevived that I used.

dprevived.com/t/we-can-now-accept-donations/5752/

It may or may not be DPRevived. A few years ago I tried to subscribe to JStor and failed. PayPal wasn't accepting payments for JStor from Singapore. I have not tried to subscribe since. JStor only used PayPal, and nothing else.

In the PayPal forums, questions about it went unanswered.