"Backup Messages" button

[71corvette454]

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried it? I did it once last year and it worked fine - created a zip file with my messages inside. But now I tried to do that again and... I got the same file as last year
I clicked on the "Click here to download now." link - it says that the file is only available for a week, but I thought that maybe something went wrong and clicked on the button on the bottom of the site (don't remember what exactly was written there, but something like "Backup now" I guess). I got a message that the download should be ready in about 2 minutes and that I'll get a message when it's ready.

I got no message, so after some time I went there once again and on the bottom there was written:

Our records show that you backed up your PMs last on Today at 6:42pm. You will be able to use this feature again on Jun 18, 2011, 6:42pm.

So I thought I was right and it was just necessary to create a new zip file, so I downloaded it once again and... it's the same file from last year Any ideas?

[scottydl]

Good question - I've never really tried out that feature. It's a built-in Proboards utility so we don't have much control over it, and I'm not 100% sure how it works. If the backup file is based on browser cookies, you might need to try to create the backup from a different computer/browser (on July 18th when it lets you create another file) and see if you get a different result.

[71corvette454]

Hm, I'll try that, but I don't think it would work, because I changed both computer and browser since last year... Thanks for the answer though.

[71corvette454]

Ok, so just in case anybody wants to know, it worked when I tried it for the second time. I still don't understand why though - I did it exactly the same way as last time. The only difference is that I recorded what I was doing, so if anybody's interested, here it is ;D:

Remember to watch in 720p and with annotations turned on, because there's no sound, so reading is the only option to understand it better

[scottydl]

Great video, seriously! I'm posting this question to the Proboards Support forum, to see if any of their staff or other members have idea. I'll link to your video so they can see exactly what's going on, and will put the Support thread link here once I have it started.

EDIT: here you go...
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=support&thread=395695

[71corvette454]

Thanks for posting it - as one of them replied (man, he's got 173 THOUSAND posts ) I guess it's a hit or miss, but fortunately I'm not getting as many extremely important PM's to have to backup them more often then every two months

[scottydl]

Jul 18, 2011 13:33:05 GMT -6 71corvette454 said:

Thanks for posting it - as one of them replied (man, he's got 173 THOUSAND posts )

Hehe, yeah Craig is the primary Proboards Admin (I'm talking for the entire company) and one of the creators of Proboards I believe. So he does a lot of posting.

[71corvette454]

Well that would explain it I guess