>>1276833

Just FYI, there are a lot of hoax websites that will pop up a scary-looking message telling you that you've been infected. Then, they'll give you some fake contact information, you'll contact them, and they'll try to convince you to do something that ultimately will allow them to screw you. They can be very, very tricky, but believe me: no legitimate business operates that way.

Here's how you deal with those kinds of things: close the tab in your web browser that the scary page is on. If you only have one tab open, open another and close the bad one. If that doesn't work, close your web browser (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, or whatever you use to get on the internet). If you open it again and you get the same message, you need to change your homepage to something normal, like startpage.com.

Don't ever, every contact those people–they're lying. If you're really, really worried, take a picture of the message and the web page address, then call Apple and ask them about it.

Hope that helps, and welcome to the internet–you'll get used to it in no time :)

>>1277388

It sounds like you just need to change one setting–see this post:

>>988648

I think a mirror depth of "2" is enough. This is the thing–you won't be able to open the folder, click on "index.html", and get all of the posts up like you would if you did an advanced search…but if you look in the folders, you'll find one that's named the same as the person you're trying to "grab." Inside that folder will be all of the tweets–you can double-click each one and take a look. It's not pretty, but it's pretty thorough.

Also, make sure that you do an advanced search before you start mirroring, with the start date as far back as you think you'll have to go to get them all.

If a "mirror depth" of 2 doesn't get you everything you want after doing both of those things, then go ahead and try "3". But don't bother going up to "4," because it gets way out of hand.

Another note: if you didn't use a vpn, odds are that twitter is going to rate-limit you after such a large download. You'll have to go through a proxy if that's the case. Good luck!

>>1278294

don't worry about it–I speak from experience re: the large download. And I sperg as well. You might notice some big posts where the author calls out and corrects mistakes right after putting it up–that's me a lot of times.

>>1278274

I would've made a double-take as well.

I notice that I get a "Q" in around half of my captcha challenges. If you figure 26 capital letters, 26 lower case, and ten digits, that makes for a one-in-sixty-two chance of getting a "Q" for each character. With six characters, the odds of getting one should be something like 9.3%. Superstition or not, it gives me comfort.

It's funny how noticing patterns can either make you an idiot or a genius. It's probably the most important predictor of both mathematical ability and paranoid schizophrenia, ha ha.

>>1290990

…is that you sucking up all the bandwidth on my server?

>>974637

Just wanted to drop off some good settings for getting one thread from 8ch.net, separate from the entire board.

In the options, under the Limits tab, select "Maximum Mirrorring Depth" and set it equal to "2", then select "Maximum External Depth" and set it equal to "1". When selecting options under the "Scan Rules" tab, I usually select the first box (for graphics), but if you really want to make a complete copy select the other ones as well. I believe it will download every movie that's embedded onto the page…so be prepared for a long download.

Setting the "Maximum Mirroring Depth" to "2" will allow you to get not just the thumbnails, but also the larger images you see when clicking on thumbnails. Also, bear in mind that even if you don't download the videos, the links to the video will still be there…so you will still be able to see them so long as they're still being hosted elsewhere. But if they're taken down, not so much.

>>1659588

I was going to say, that seems to be the delimiter. Threads in the archives lose images, but not all of them. I don't believe it's based on size–there are some big images left, while small ones are lost.

All the more reason to archive threads individually, or archiving the whole board periodically–say once a week, or whenever you think something epic is happening. Even if an image is deleted by the person that posted it, you'll still have a copy on your hard drive if you catch it in time. This is especially important when we get visitors :)