Quote Originally Posted by jimi View Post
How did you implement that Tom ? Is it a vbulletin extension ?
Hi Jimi,

Yes, it's one called "vB4 Import External Images".

It's now scheduled to run every 10 minutes to grab any new post images (from any source).

On the evening that I did the mass photobucket rescue, I had to keep manually re-running it to go through the whole back catalogue of the forum, otherwise it would have taken days (or weeks?) for it to get through all the content. It wasn't designed for that heavy abuse, so a fair few server restarts were required, but I got there in the end.

It still surprises me that no other forum admins from what I saw tried to do anything pro-active, but merely let it happen.

Hope that helps.