steerage250

Please don’t mark it as resololved.

I am on holidays in outback Australia with dodgy internet and have not been able to test your suggestion. It might be another few weeks before I can.

regards

Ian

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by steerage250.

I gave up on using zip because when I opened the archive in Winzip, it didn’t show all the files.
I use the latest WinRAR to open the archive.

I have downloaded the file from Dropbox multiple times, and each time, the file size is exactly the same and it is still corrupt.
As an experiment just now, I created a test job (tar file) to do a big backup (ie 1GB) to /uploads/backwpup folder, then downloaded with FileZilla – corrupt.

The 4th attempt was finally successful – but it shouldn’t be this hard.

answered my own question…
I my case, I used the Code Snippets plugin to add the php code – and it seems to solve the problem!

thanks Isommerdal

Isommerdal – where do I insert that bit of php ?

thanks

Ian

duongcuong96’s solution fixed my problem (well, 1st retry anyway). I had no idea how to install a php plugin, so installed the code snippet into /public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php as suggested.

Thankyou for that, that fixed the problem. (I did do a search before posting, but was searching for “checkbox” – not “caption”). I am operating purely in “monkey see, monkey do” mode here ??

I had never edited the functions.php file before and did a bit of Googling. One article I saw said it was best not to add to the theme’s functions.php as it would get overwritten if/when the theme was updated. Is that correct?

This article recommended installing the “Code Snippets” plugin and adding custom code there. I tried that, but your code didn’t parse correctly – so I went and did what you suggested and put it in the theme’s functions.php file.

yes, they are all pdf files. I have been uploading them via FTP lately after having some problems earlier uploading them through MLF (and then I haven’t found a way to generate the thumbnails). However, the last 2 (where the thumbnails look the same, and one needs to be deleted when I find out how) were uploaded successfully through MLF.

Here is (hopefully) a screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz7ullj5ojeoa8a/MLF%20screenshot.JPG?dl=0

Oh dear – I have been wasting your time. Many apologies.

The backups are complete – it’s just that 7-Zip didn’t display all the folders nor give any warning or error message that it couldn’t decode the whole TAR.

WinRar confirms all the files appear to be there.

Correct – I used Windows and 7-Zip (I have found WinZip usually cannot open these files)

Absolutely no errors are noted in the log file. By downloading and extracting the Tar file is how I know the folders are not there.

I have the job setup as per the attached screenshots and run it manually and it copies it to a DropBox. The only folder backed-up is the one circled in purple (1606), and it isn’t one I’m interested in anyway (just has an empty sub-folder).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8xk0bxzyucr9p0a/BackWPup%20incomplete%20backup%20set%20problem.pdf?dl=0

Peter – that makes perfect sense. However, somehow-or-other my predecessor loaded the pdfs into WordPress in such a manner that they ended-up with thumbnails. I then decided the place needed a bit more organisation and started using MLF (which is great) – and now all my uploads look like orphans with no thumbnails ??

Anyway, no disaster if it can’t be done (just looks untidy).

thanks