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[heybaby99]

Hello admins/Contributors of this site,

I am a big fan of your site, its awesome. I keep downloading stuffs from your site, but its very difficult for me to download older archives in 5mb files, one by one..

I request you to upload all those albums into one file and can you upload it ?

Thanks in advance
-Heybaby99

[Azazavr]

I think, it's not realy possible now. Maybe later we will make it.

[heybaby99]

I think, it's not realy possible now. Maybe later we will make it.

Hmm i see, atleast making Archives for particular Year ? would that be possible ?

[Sensei]

My friend is a registered WebShots member. He downloads all premium
daily images for me. He does not use WebShots Desktop, so he has
only 1600x1200 and 1920x1080 JPG images. Total Commander WebShots
plugin and Ultimate Webshots Converter can work with the following
WebShots image formats:

WBC, WBP (Webshots Catalog) Create, add, extract
WB0, WBD, WBO (Webshots WB0 image) Create, extract
WB1 (Webshots WB1 image) Create, extract
SPV (Spirit Saver image) Create, extract
WBZ (Webshots compressed image) Extract

They cannot make WBZ from JPG, so I upload only JPG images

[WBZ]

Hi Sensei,

thanks for your efforts. I think, its a good idea for lazy people, to download all 155 photos from a month at once.

I also use TC and the Webshots plugin to extract those WBZ-files down to .jpg files. But there seems to be no possibility to create real WBZ-files. I was looking around the World Wide Web searching (looking) for a program (tool) to generate WBZ-files, but these can not generate real WBZ-files.
A real WBZ-file (as downloaded from Webshots.com site) consist of a WB1-file and at the end of the file some metadata. A WB1-file is an encrypted JPG-file always starting with the header WWBB1111.

For instance:
Image 336468 "Marshall Point Lighthouse, Port Clyde, Maine" has a size of 257.845 Bytes. The real filename is 333648_h.jpg
This imagefile is encrypted into a WB1-file (333648_h.wb1) and has an exactly file length of 257.853 Bytes - The difference between an jpg-image and a WB1-file is always 8 Bytes.
This wb1-file is stored within a wbz-container (3336468_1600.wbz). This WBZ-Container has a size of 259.542 Bytes. At the end of this WBZ-file is some meta-information stored (like title, id, credits, category and dailydate). The WB1-file is only an encrypted Picture and contains NO OTHER INFORMATIONS. So it is useless to send it over the Net.

I still have a small progarm on which you may readout those Metadata-information for each correct WBZ-File within a given folder.

In early times Webshots.com offered all their files in that WBC-Format - Collections. With some older Webshots-Programmes you can create, modify or extract such Collections.The Total Commander PlugIn does it too. I use it very often, almost daily.

Any Questions - I shall answer all opublic or private (PM). Regards ...

Edited by WBZ, 08 June 2012 - 22:18:51.
Moved from General Talk to the FAQ section

[Sensei]

Hi, WBZ

I was in a hospital for more than 40 days. Now I am OK.
Your message helped me a lot, so I did not have to
analyze all those WebShots formats myself. I tried to
contact the webshots.wcx and Ultimate WebShots Converter
authors. Maybe they could implement JPG to WBZ conversion.
No hope, because webshots.wcx and UWC are not maintained
anymore. Both tools are rather old.

One of my friends has old WebShots format archives. I will check
them and if they are OK I will upload them in original format.

Please excuse my bad English. It is not my native language.

[Бегемот]

Hi, Sensei.
Thanks for your great job.
>
If you write in UWC-converter "Tuning" that symbols:

(%pic.id %pic.title).jpg

In that case pictures would keeping with ID-number+title picture. Jpeg format
At example:



>>
Tell me what language you speak. I'll attach screenshot UWC tuning here.
Regards.

[WBZ]

@Sensei,
lucky to hear that you're back and recovered thanks for your efforts in packing all the files monthly and also for looking to solve the problem about wrong generating of WBZ-files.
I was looking at author's (Hervé "Setaou" BRY) site, but it seems that developping is terminated. Only a Apple-Mac version xUWC 10.6 (from 2010) seems to be interesting - but I use only Windows. If anyone is interesetd and uses Apple-Mac here is the link

@Бегемот
I made also some screenshots as I use also the UWC-Batch for extracting and renaming the files. I make a folder with the name of the month ("July") and also 31 subfolders for each day of that month. Than I extract weekly those wbz-files in those subfolders. At the end of the month I start UWC to batch all the 300 or 310 files. The jpg-files will be in the same subfolder as the original WBZ-files. Later I set the filedate to the webshotsdate (daily date of issue) using Total Commander attribute changer plugin.

At least I move all files with a batch to different folders. The folders are called 1600-JPG, 1920-JPG as well as 1600-WBZ and 1920-WBZ. So I keep all WBZ-Files and store them in folders like YEAR-MONTH-WBZ-1600 and ..1900. The same with the JPG-Pictures.

So I have a clear structure of all the files from WS. Knowing the exact date of issue by looking to the file's date. Do you agree ?!

NB. I suppose Sensei speaks chinese or japanese. Am I Right?

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[GeneNiki]

WBZ:
I find the Post #8 of this very interesting. You do VERY good work!

Regards - GeneNiki

[Sensei]

@WBZ

I was system administrator since 1977. My programmers
called me Sensei. I am a Serb. I am 65. My wife is a retired
teacher of English and she says that my English should
be better.

When I make my WebShots Daily image collection the
year directory has the name WSDyyyy.
The subdirectories for months are M01 through M12.
I tried to use month names, but they cannot be sorted
(for example, April will be before January). All month
subdirectories contain JPG1600, JPG1920, WBZ1600,
and WBZ1920 subdirectories (I could not always get
WBZ archives so some of my old collections contain
only JPG). The image files are not grouped by day,
but they always have exact dates for each day.
The file times have the form yy:mm:yy for even years
and yy:mm:00 for odd years. I do this because FAT
has two seconds resolution and cannot support odd
seconds. If you copy the files from NTFS to FAT
partition, the file times will change. So my July
collection will have all file times 12:07:12, but I used
11:07:00 for July 2011.

What do you think about this arrangement?
My friends suggested such directory structure and I
accepted it. I am using it for several years.

@Бегемот

In some of my previous years collection all JPG files
had number prefix that you suggested. When I uploaded
such archives, most people from several image forums
started complaining and they asked me to remove
number prefix in my future uploads. They said that they
are not interested in WebShots Desktop and that they
collect only JPG. Almost all of them did not know what
to do with proprietary WebShots formats.

I have very asymmetric ADSL connection (8192/512)
so my uploads are always slow and I cannot upload
four archive variants (with WBZ, without WBZ, with
number prefix, and without it). All available providers
here (even cable providers) do all they can to limit
upload speeds to make P2P difficult.

So, all members, I am interested in your opinion.
Please tell me what image format you think
would be the best for my monthly uploads.

[Бегемот]

@Бегемот
I made also some screenshots as I use also the UWC-Batch for extracting and renaming the files. I make a folder with the name of the month ("July") and also 31 subfolders for each day of that month. Than I extract weekly those wbz-files in those subfolders. At the end of the month I start UWC to batch all the 300 or 310 files. The jpg-files will be in the same subfolder as the original WBZ-files. Later I set the filedate to the webshotsdate (daily date of issue) using Total Commander attribute changer plugin.

At least I move all files with a batch to different folders. The folders are called 1600-JPG, 1920-JPG as well as 1600-WBZ and 1920-WBZ. So I keep all WBZ-Files and store them in folders like YEAR-MONTH-WBZ-1600 and ..1900. The same with the JPG-Pictures.

So I have a clear structure of all the files from WS. Knowing the exact date of issue by looking to the file's date. Do you agree ?!

NB. I suppose Sensei speaks chinese or japanese. Am I Right?

Hi, WBZ.
Very glad to hear you.
You can set name of your jpeg files in UWC-converted programme. Tuning of it allowed do it.
I like your files date system organization. I keeping WBZ - files the same method at one different -1600 only.
And else.
Sorry, I can't see your attachment files.
That's all I see (Community Message):


I don't know what's the matter.
May be your choiced pic file-hosting have a low fixed count download?
Regards.

@Бегемот

In some of my previous years collection all JPG files
had number prefix that you suggested. When I uploaded
such archives, most people from several image forums
started complaining and they asked me to remove
number prefix in my future uploads. They said that they
are not interested in WebShots Desktop and that they
collect only JPG. Almost all of them did not know what
to do with proprietary WebShots formats.

I have very asymmetric ADSL connection (8192/512)
so my uploads are always slow and I cannot upload
four archive variants (with WBZ, without WBZ, with
number prefix, and without it). All available providers
here (even cable providers) do all they can to limit
upload speeds to make P2P difficult.

So, all members, I am interested in your opinion.
Please tell me what image format you think
would be the best for my monthly uploads.

Hi, Sensei.
My files with ID-prefix stay in JPEG -format:
(%pic.id%pic.title) . JPEG
It so easy to look and find pics at net and own collection.
I have ADSL-connection too. By the way, limit of uploads make not only providers. It make OS Windows one. To minimize virus detections, as they said.
Sensei, I think as you can upload files (traffic+time e.t.c.) in any case I download it. All out of my tendentious collection release I doing by handly.
Thanks for your upload.
Regards.

[WBZ]

Hi friends,

@Бегемот: I don't know why you can't see my snapshots so I uploaded them again on a free hoster. Here are the links:
UWC-Instruction
I hope you can download them...
@Sensei: I see that we both have almost the same structure by collecting the WS pictures.
Cannot attach a file with a screenshot of TC, its too big. You can download them here. You see a view to the monthly-folder (June 2012). The date is changing through "wintertime" from 13:00 to 12:00 exactly at the last sunday on October.
By the way your english sounds better than mine, carry on.
@GeneNiki: Thank you for the complement. Nice to hear from you.

Regards to all

[Бегемот]

@Бегемот: I don't know why you can't see my snapshots so I uploaded them again on a free hoster. Here are the links:
UWC-Instruction
I hope you can download them...

Hi, WBZ.
Thanks for your screenshot.
Make an attempt #2 and received a pic :
(clickable picture)



Regards.

[WBZ]

Hi, WBZ.
Thanks for your screenshot.
Make an attempt #2 and received a pic :

Regards.

no good picture hoster: too much comercials and xxx

[Azazavr]

Please use piccy.info as a picture hosting.
Никогда не используйте радикал для показа фото! Лучше использовать http://piccy.info

[Бегемот]

Please use piccy.info as a picture hosting.
Никогда не используйте радикал для показа фото! Лучше использовать http://piccy.info

Мне радикал нравится тем, что загружать картинки можно не заходя на сайт с помощью их фирменной приблуды ShellExtension. На мой взгляд, очень удобно.

no good picture hoster: too much comercials and xxx

Don't pay attention to that. I think it's interface usability friendly.(for my opinion)

[WBZ]

Please use piccy.info as a picture hosting.
Никогда не используйте радикал для показа фото! Лучше использовать http://piccy.info

It doesn't work


Imageshack gives us also thumbnails.
Regards

[Sensei]

@WBZ

Yesterday I received the message from MediaFire. They said that they
deleted all my files because I uploaded copyrighted image files and that
I am banned from MediaFire.

MediaFire said that they found the links to illegal contents at

http://www.wshots.net/index.php?/topic/1111-request-webshots-complete-archive/

(this page)

Since I could not start a new topic, I had to post in this topic.
I always log in to this forum, but all forum contents is visible without login.
Most pages can be located using Google search (try "webshots daily images")
and Google will find www.wshots.net page.

Please change your forum configuration so that the contents is visible
only after login, otherwise all daily WebShots image posts can be
affected too, not only my posts.

Now only my MediaFire links are dead. Please transfer my posts with
WebShots archive links out of FAQ. I cannot start a new topic and
I cannot delete my posts.

[Azazavr]

Sensei,
Done! Thanks for info!

[WBZ]

Yesterday I received the message from MediaFire. They said that they
deleted all my files because I uploaded copyrighted image files and that
I am banned from MediaFire.

Perhaps you can passwordsafe your files and give them encrypted names like many others do.
If you have no dedicated line with permament IP address (changing IP address after 24 hours) it can be no problem to make a new account on MF.
But you like a better file hoster like 1fichier.com

Since I could not start a new topic, I had to post in this topic.
Please change your forum configuration so that the contents is visible only after login, otherwise all daily WebShots image posts can be affected too, not only my posts.

Now only my MediaFire links are dead. Please transfer my posts with WebShots archive links out of FAQ. I cannot start a new topic and I cannot delete my posts.

Azazavr did this ath the same time.

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