Remember all those files you've downloaded over the years, characters, clothing, props, poses, textures, etc.? And for one reason or other you have a system crash and lose all of it so you figure you will just download those items again but to your horror you find that the site and or the items no longer exist. There is still a way to access these lost files! It is not full proof and it is not gauranteed but I personally have recovered lost files from some lost sites.

Before you ask, yes this is legal since these items were previously available to begin with.

Here is my method:

Go to the Internet Archive website and use the <a href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">WAYBACK MACHINE</a>. This is quoted from the site itself,

<i><b>"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."</b></i>

If you want to visit a site that hasn't been around for a few years just type in the old address in the Wayback Machine address box and it will give you a list of links with copies of the old site. Sometimes the old files are still on these copied sites which means you can still download old items! Now it's BAD News/GOOD news time. BAD news is that 9 times out of 10 the zip file you downloaded will be corrupt and assumed to be unuseable. GOOD news, now here is the trick, you need to download a utility called [Link removed by Tormie: commercial product]. This little tool can usually repair most corrupt or damaged zip files. I have personally been able to restore alot  of old files this way.

This is just another alternative for those wanting to track down old files to use for their own personal use but it will also allow you to retrieve information such as the author's e-mail for contact purposes. Give it a try...who knows what treasures you'll uncover!  

Hi Marv and Welcome back. Well, I hope this is not a change in your attitude, but the tool that you advertised is a commercial product (it costs about 29 bucks) and you should know how we like freebies only   , so I had to remove the link.

I'm seriously doubtful about this post: using the wayback machine, as far as I know, it is not possible to do what you said, but maybe I'm wrong and you can write some links with those zip files... Some examples could "clean" it all...

     

Hey Tormie, I guess it has been a while. Sorry about that link, I'll bet with a little searching I could probably find a freeware alternative.

It is possible to retrieve lost files from old pages. But not all archived pages have all of their files intact, some do some don't. They may have missing images, zips, etc. So like I said before it's never a guarantee. It's kind of like treasure hunting.

The Wayback Machine has Posette Forever archived back to February 27, 2004. Take a look at these pages of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.posetteforever.com">archived links for Posette Forever.</a>

Hi Marv!

I have been out there like Marv said. It has a lot of History. I have downloaded a couple of Movies there. Yes, even the famous Posetteforever is out there.  

Ok AMrv, I'll give it a try     !

Yes its an interesting thingie.
I tried it some time ago and was able to get me some of remc's (3rdEyeFunction) stuff.
I just tried it on Rubio's, but all I got are the Pages. No files avaliable. It's sad. Used to have some nice hair that I missed...

Hiya Ahjah  

Hiya Marv!  

Hey there tda42  

     Psst... Only few know it       but in the very first days of Posetteforever  we did not even had a domain name, the site was on http://posetteforever.100megs22.com and the way machine page is this one  

I hardly remember this old times , but I had been there, must be (look at "last users online" )

What do you remember about  this old times heartbeat but he or she had been there must be look at last users online grin   ?

ahjah wrote: [View Post]

I hardly remember this old times , but I had been there, must be (look at "last users online" )

Yep, I was near to cite it Those times were very funny

*Sigh* Kenny sits back in his rocking chair whittling on a stick with his knife along with a gray haired Bus driver and a gray bearded
guy with a big sledge hammer both sitting on his front porch saying to each other they sure don't make posetteforever like they use too.