Group: Ipernity User Help Central

Am in agreement with Smiley Derleth ... point me in the right direction to find out how close
or
not that I am to the 100GB limit.

Appreciate the answer -- believe I've also put one in 3.2 section of FAQ.

Thanks,
Peggy

Thank you, Peggy, for asking there. I hope we are seen.

You are definitely seen. But I can't answer the question myself. I am sure that you will be answered soon by a competent member of the IMA team. So don't worry. :-)

Thank you .. Smiley told me where to find the number of photos I have [other than using my calculator] ---
On one's page - go to Organize..
Across the bottom are your photos .. there is the current number just above them / on the left -

But, still have no idea how much bandwidth..

Thanks for finding us,

Peggy

Thank you, Peggy. We'll hang tight for the bandwidth response...

Christophe Ruelle had not provided for a query of the memory consumption and had therefore not programmed it in. The ipernity program would have to be retrofitted with it. However, this is of low priority because the actual memory consumption is insignificant as long as the club memberships are valid. A display of the used storage space only becomes relevant when changing over to the new subscription model, i.e. specifically in the context of reprogramming. Such a display will then be installed in any case.

As administrators, we can of course carry out database queries in individual cases. We also offered this in the Newsflash 2018-12-07.

(Answers to many questions can be found in the newsflashes via the search function, because the newsflashes are indexed. Search of "memory consumption" among the articles on ipernity will deliver you the answer.)

Bernhard (ima)

Thank you, Bernhard for emailing the information requested.

Answers to many questions are where you said --- even under FAQ.

Yet they do not all cover some situations... even when I sit here and search.

Just a note - when one is user-friendly, it goes a long way.

Telling me "answers to many questions can be found in Newsflashes" can seem like a needle in a haystack.

No problem, Peggy =)

This is still the right place to ask help like this done here. Bernhard's comment is also a reminder to me and other who help others on this group.

I personally teach, study and try to learn more about information seeking and retrieval, and I well know how difficult it can be to find something if one does not even know what to call it. To be able to write a search word or use keywords, one first has to figure out what words to use.

And as an advice to me and others helping here, the Bernhard's comment is a good example and reminder on how to provide help. Instead of giving only the answer, it is also good to point out how and where that answer was found from. That way one also help and teach others to seek and retrieve information in the future.

There are at least a pair of threads that can be considered related to the question of how much space members are using.

Let's say we discover we are over the size limit and need to trim down. The best thing to do will then be do find a way to bulk download some of our assets. Unfortunately, Ipernity's recommended solution for this, from a couple of years back, "Down Them All!" does not work anymore.

So a couple of us have been posing this question for a time here. Here are related threads:

www.ipernity.com/group/api-users/discuss/192300

www.ipernity.com/group/userhelpcentral/discuss/192744

When Ipernity was threatened with closure in late 2016 and early 2017, "Down Them All!" came to the rescue. It doesn't appear that any general user-friendly solution is available this time. And few people have any idea how concerned they should be about the possibility of being over the 100 GB limit. I am not sure many people are even reading that tiny bit of type about the 100 GB limit.

I have been looking at bulk download and metalink sites for much of the week, trying to find an app or plug-in that will facilitate the download of possible over-limit assets that members have organized into albums. So far, without luck.

Is there a public place where this issue is a little more openly discussed and addressed? I feel we are in an isolated backend of Ipernity here holding what should be a very public discussion. My feeling is that the more people who know about the limit and impending extra charges, the better the chance that a solution will surface. (This, in addition to preventing nasty surprises for in-good-faith members.)

I won't go full-blown alarmist yet, but this situation seriously concerns me.

I think that this group is an appropriate public place where this topic can be openly discussed. It is the official help group of ipernity that has recently also been linked to on the Help & Contact page. It is also intended for users helping other users. So users who know of other download solutions are welcome to post this solutions here. Perhaps this group still needs a little bit promotion as it has been reactivated only recently. But hopefully ipernity users become more and more aware of it. :-)

OK, folks, one week later, we are still waiting for some substantial help here.

This is exactly why I suggested we make the topic of this discussion more public. There may actually be someone out there in the great Ipernityland who can help – a member who could get Down Them All! working again with a few hours tweaks, or a member who has discovered an existing solution or workaround. The issue is, no one is going to see this question, which is what I said was going to happen.

Gentlemen, I need your help.

Including to what Guido replied, please also keep in mind that ipernity members association is not responsible on tools currently available. We can only promise to do our best to improve all this in the future.

Moreover, there does not seem to be a very common problem. First of all, there are not that many users anywhere close to 100 GB limit. And also being a Mac user. And also not having backups/originals on computer already.

So, this topic is public enough already. Shouting it out all over the place very likely does not help. You already have cought ima team's attention. We are still trying to find someone who could test the aria2 solution on Mac. And that is unfortunately only option we have to offer at the moment.

P.S. Please also see latest discussion here on what comes to album downloads:

www.ipernity.com/group/userhelpcentral/discuss/192744

This topic should stay topical and deal only with the issue of 100 GB limit. And if you have not yet requested your data usage, please see instructions here:

www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4714600

Dear Smiley Derleth,

this thread was about the question how to know whether you are near 100 GB storage usage. This question was answered by Bernhard some comments above:

www.ipernity.com/group/36014/discuss/192778/comment/57290204#comment57290204

Have you asked Bernhard about your storage usage as offered in his post respectively in the Newflash he had linked to?

The question how to download your photos is discussed in another thread:

www.ipernity.com/group/userhelpcentral/discuss/192744

There I had answered to you about 12 days ago:

www.ipernity.com/group/36014/discuss/192744/comment/57288962#comment57288962

Further more this question was again subject to the latest Newsflash, see topic 6:

www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4722158

I am still willing to try to help you with the solution described in my blog article ( www.ipernity.com/blog/guidowerner/4721698 ) although I don't have a Mac. That is why we have asked in the latest Newflash for MacUsers who might help testing.

Best regards,
Guido

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