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still Member Joined: November 2010 Posts: 11,561	No SOOS smilies appearing on my blog May 18, 2015 12:55:37 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by still on May 18, 2015 12:55:37 GMT -5 Nothing from the SOOS menu of smilies is appearing on any of my pages. My photobucket things are doing ok.
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papermoon Member Joined: March 2014 Posts: 9,178	No SOOS smilies appearing on my blog May 18, 2015 13:33:11 GMT -5 still likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by papermoon on May 18, 2015 13:33:11 GMT -5 It's not just you, still. There are a lot of broken links for smilies in my blog too. Actually, it's a mixed bag... some are showing up fine, while others ain't.

still Member Joined: November 2010 Posts: 11,561	No SOOS smilies appearing on my blog May 18, 2015 13:38:56 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by still on May 18, 2015 13:38:56 GMT -5 Thank you for letting me know. I did try to look at other people's posts to see if they were having the same problem but I couldn't figure out where they were supposed to be showing up and where they weren't
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Little_Ninja Birthday Club Organizer "...motivation follows action." ~~~ Steve Pavlina Joined: May 2008 Posts: 4,416	No SOOS smilies appearing on my blog May 18, 2015 16:38:21 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Little_Ninja on May 18, 2015 16:38:21 GMT -5 This has happened before - the last time Proboards upgraded their web site. Except at that time, only a couple of smilies (not all of them) got messed up. Little_Ninja
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dtesposito Member Joined: April 2010 Posts: 29,616	No SOOS smilies appearing on my blog May 18, 2015 18:50:59 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dtesposito on May 18, 2015 18:50:59 GMT -5 Oh I'm so glad to see this--I was hoping that it was Proboards, not just me! Diane
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May 18, 2015 16:38:21 GMT -5 Little_Ninja said:

This has happened before - the last time Proboards upgraded their web site. Except at that time, only a couple of smilies (not all of them) got messed up.

Did they reappear or were they lost forever?

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To flotsam:

Some, but not all smilies re-appear correctly (notice the big hug smiley that's working before my signature in this post). When I post my birthday greetings, some of the smilies from last year were a bit "off" after Proboards upgraded their website last summer. I had to edit my smilie text. After Proboards has an upgrade, Celeste & perhaps other moderators have to edit the smiley drop-down list. It's rather irritating for us all! I've tried to keep up with editing my birthday greetings, but still, it's irritating! I'm a BIG smiley fan, and luckily I have smiley resources (from Photobucket & millan.net) that are safe from these intrusive upgrades!

:-X

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Last Edit: May 19, 2015 1:06:47 GMT -5 by Little_Ninja

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Thanks, Little Ninja.

I have downloaded all my posts from Proboards. Yesterday's post after the "accident" has empty spaces where the smilies should be, but all the older posts seem to be okay, so I really hope the older ones will be rescued.

Celeste, do you know anything about it?

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Post by Little_Ninja on May 19, 2015 9:00:20 GMT -5

I'm doing a smiley test here. If there's nothing next to the name of the smiley, the smiley's not working:

Checkmarks, etc.
checkbox-to-do:
checkbox-done:
indented-to-do:
indented-done:
light-to-do:
light-done:
heart-to-do:
heart-done:
not-done-button:
done-button:
not-started:
started:
half-done:
almost-done:
done:

Emoticons
laugh-1:
rofl:

yahoo:

bliss:

hiding:

scared:

whip:
insomniasmiley:
mrsandman:
snore:
mornincoffee2:
coffee:
blusher:
embarassed:

whistle:
na-na:
imp:
angel:
chilly:

coughing:
headache:
sick:
confused:

crap:
tisk:
sigh:

noway:
meh:
facepalm:

tongue:

yuck:

humph-1:
grr:

scream:
gaah:
mad:
hamwheelsmilf:
good-luck:
Nod:

thumbsup-1:
bowdown-2:
yellclap-1:
wtg:
blueribbon:
train:
charge:
cheerleader:
dancingbanana:
SOSstar:
star:
heartbeat:
thankyou:
aniwave:

grouphug-1:
hugs:
happy-hug:

hug:

sad-hug:

praying:
vibes-1:

Signs
challenging-1:
together-we-can-1:
welcome:

YouCanDoIt:

Progress:

motivation:

baby-steps:

amnesty:

todo-1:
tada-1:
good-work:

great-job:

well-done:

congratulations:

bravo:

DidIt:

thanks:
birthdaysign:

feelbettersoon:

Tasks
soslaundry:
washmachine:
laundry:
ironing:

hangclothes-1:
shopping_groceries:

cooking:

washingdishes-1:
windowwasher:

dusting:
natureabhorsavacuum:
cleaningmaterials:

sosmop:
cleaning-toilet:
litterbox:

dogwalk:

trash:

rubbish:

hammering:

snowshovel:

mowlawn-1:
waterflower:
gardening:

walking:
treadmill:

armstretches:

read:
paperwork:
journalingsmiley-2:
computering:
operator:

Party
partytime-1:
present:
cake:
icecreamcone:
noisemaker:

bdaysmile:
biggrinparty-1:
balloon:
balloons:
cheers:

Animals
bat:
beaver:
bird:
bumblebee:
bunny:
butterfly-colorful:
cow-dancing:
elephant-dancing:
dancing-kitty:
dog-woof:
hound:

cat:

dove2:
duckling:
ferret:
goldfish:
frog:
turtle:
dinosaur:
kangaroo:
horse:
goat:
lion:
sheep:
mouse:
owl:
panda:
parrot:
penguin:
pig:
skunk:
squirrel:
octopus:
Seahorse:

shrimp:

starfish:

Clam:

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Last Edit: May 19, 2015 9:08:32 GMT -5 by Little_Ninja

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still Member Joined: November 2010 Posts: 11,561	No SOOS smilies appearing on my blog May 19, 2015 15:45:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by still on May 19, 2015 15:45:36 GMT -5 Celeste, we all owe you so much
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May 19, 2015 15:45:36 GMT -5 still said:

Celeste, we all owe you so much

Aw!

I discovered that something was blocking the emoticons stored on my domain from showing. After trying a few "solutions" that didn't work, I found one that would. Your old posts might not show the smilies, but I think everything new WILL.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but we should be okay now.

Last Edit: May 20, 2015 4:21:08 GMT -5 by Celeste

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Post by Little_Ninja on May 21, 2015 10:29:49 GMT -5

I'm currently going through all 157 pages of my blog

, trying to replace the smilies that are not appearing correctly because of the new smiley URLs. If anyone's interested, here's the approach I'm taking using Notepad.exe as my text editing application. (MS Word could also perform the same function as a simple text editing program.)

1. Open up Notepad.exe.

2. Go to your post that contains the broken smiley links and click Edit. When the post text appears, press Ctrl+A to select all text within your post, then press Ctrl+C to copy the text to the "clipboard" (temporary) memory.

3. Click your cursor within the Notepad window and press Ctrl+V to paste all the post text within the window.

4. Search within the text to find the URL link for the smiley that's not appearing correctly. For example, the smiley I use most often in my blog is the checkbox-done smiley:

, and the broken URL text (within the square brackets) appears as "img src="http://gi252.photobucket.com/groups/hh28/1IO3E0AI9A/checkbox-done.png". I select this URL text (including the square brackets) and press Ctrl+C to copy it to memory.

5. Once you copy the URL text, press Ctrl+H in Notepad to open the Replace dialog.

6. In the Find what field, press Ctrl+V to paste the URL text within the field.

7. In the Replace with field, type the correct smiley text as listed from the smiley drop-down list in the SooS Forum. For example, the correct smiley text for the checkbox-done smiley is **checkbox-done** (surrounded by two colons :: on each side rather than asterisks).

8. Click Replace All to make this replacement to the text of your post.

9. Go back to the open window of your blog post and press Ctrl+A to select all of the original text within the post, then press Delete to delete the text.

10. Go back to your Notepad window and press Ctrl+A to select all of the modified text within the window, then press Ctrl+C to copy the text to the "clipboard" (temporary) memory.

11. Go back to the open window of your blog post and press Ctrl+V to paste the modified text within the window, then click Save Changes to save your blog text.

12. View your modified blog post to see if there are any other smileys that need fixing. Then repeat the above steps until all broken smileys are fixed within your post.

I hope these steps might help others to make their blog posts "pretty" again!

Little_Ninja

Last Edit: May 21, 2015 11:58:11 GMT -5 by Little_Ninja

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Post by flotsam on May 21, 2015 13:00:01 GMT -5

Hi Little_Ninja,

just a suggestion to make it (maybe) easier for you if you really want to replace them all: Download all your posts from Proboards (see eagle's how-to). This way you could replace all icons at once. Of course it would be a bit more of a hassle to find the right post.

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