Expercraft?

[catmandu]

Originally Posted by rzbill

Your suggestion for hosting images to post here on VAF is........?

Dropbox worked well, until it didn’t. Imgur is doing good so far. But I am a cheap pilot and not so prolific picture poster, so I did not venture into the pay to play world of Smugmug, which has been previously recommended here. I did just spring for an Office 365 subscription as I think this upstart Microsoft might be viable for a while. That comes with 6TB of clouds, not sure if pictures on forums is an easy thing to do with them.

[rzbill]

Originally Posted by catmandu

But I am a cheap pilot

Aren't we all... Love the mantra "Cheapest thing in the plane is the pilot".

I did a little surfing of my own VAF posts today and I find the URL links to my Expercraft pages are dead ended with Rob's notice but the images I linked directly are still showing. Maybe those will go away soon.

Back in the modem days, my ISP included some "web storage space". I ran a web page for my grey market GP replica motorcycle, in support of a club, at that time. More recent ISPs don't provide that space for cheapskates anymore.

[Snowflake]

$20/year will get you your own domain name, you can point that at whatever web space you can get access to. As long as you keep backups, you can move to a different provider on a moment's notice... Just move the content to the new site, and redirect the domain to the top level of the new site. Links all stay the same, and you're reasonably protected from ISP death.

[airguy]

Anybody talk to Rob about this lately? The website response has changed - now it just displays "Coming Soon..."

Dare I hope?

[painless]

I?ve sent several emails asking for data dump instructions with no joy.

[odens_14]

Quiet here too, I did find my pdf backups so I'm not worried about it anymore.

[jmorrical]

From time to time I Google to see what's happening with ExperCraft. It looks like a few months ago Rob Riggen accomplished a recovery of some textual logs, but not photos, expense or time log yet. That alone is a great help. This seems to indicate photos could come. He has our contact info so you would think he would communicate some updates.

You can cut and past this link, but when you do simply type in your ExperCraft user name as shown here over myusername. Good luck!

http://websites.expercraft.com/myusername



Try this link below if you want to see the page I found with the instructions.

http://websites.expercraft.com

J Morrical

[painless]

He?s been hinting at photo recovery for quite some time now....

[rzbill]

Originally Posted by jmorrical

From time to time I Google to see what's happening with ExperCraft. It looks like a few months ago Rob Riggen accomplished a recovery of some textual logs, but not photos, expense or time log yet. That alone is a great help. This seems to indicate photos could come. He has our contact info so you would think he would communicate some updates.

You can cut and past this link, but when you do simply type in your ExperCraft user name as shown here over myusername. Good luck!

http://websites.expercraft.com/myusername



Try this link below if you want to see the page I found with the instructions.

http://websites.expercraft.com

J Morrical

Thanks for that. I have all my photos plus the pdf download I did of my original pages for presentation at FAA inspection. The part I am missing is about 60 text entries created in phase 1 and phase 2. I see I can get those now with the link you posted.

Maybe someday my web page will go back up. Will have to wait for retirement though.

[jmorrical]

EAA has an online builders log operating for members!

Last week at my EAA Chapter 302 monthly meeting in Conroe, TX I learned EAA has an online Builders Log up and running! Apparently it was announced at AirVenture 2019 Oshkosh this year. Charlie Becker, EAA Director of Chapters, also made the announcement in the EAA September Chapter Video Magazine.

I use a Mac and for convenience had been using web based ExperCraft. It shut down without warning months ago as you may know. I lost control of my log although some was backed up. I had purchased KitLog Pro a few weeks ago, but couldn't face transitioning to a PC and hadn't made any progress toward reviving my log. Fortunately for me, I have recovered most of my textual entries from ExperCraft, but no photos, no time on sections of the build or expense log etc. I am happy to say I am in the process to rebuilding my log on the EAA log. It is easy to cut and paste text from the document recovered from ExperCraft. Photos are easily dragged and dropped or searched to my entries.

My cloud of frustration over my log is clearing!

http://EAABuildersLog.org


Jim Morrical