Title: Scan old posts?
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Scan old posts?
* Resolved [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/)
* Would it be possible to add a feature to scan posts from before one installed
the plugin so that images in older posts can be archived locally as well?
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/qqworld-auto-save-images/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/qqworld-auto-save-images/)
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* Plugin Author [Michael Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qqworld/)
* (@qqworld)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337411)
* Yes, that’s a great idea, I’m on it, should take a while.
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337418)
* 兩個小時內就有了。呢麼厲害！
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337420)
* The way it is currently implemented for scanning old posts is a problem for blogs
with a large number of posts. I have 2,548 posts on my site (it is a group blog
and we’ve been blogging for a long time).
* It seems to stop after a bit. It did 830 the first time then stopped. The second
time it stopped at 1168. The third time at 1647… I still haven’t gotten to the
end.
* Each time it starts at the beginning again, but it seems to go very fast through
the posts that have already been processed.
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337440)
* With the latest update (1.5.1) it seems to scan everything, but it isn’t getting
some images. For instance, I used to host a lot of images on Evernote using Skitch.
These images start with the URL: `
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337443)
* I think I was wrong to say that 1.5.1 was scanning everything. I have realized
that the post ID is not sequential, so even though the ID number exceeds the
number of posts i have, there are still many hundreds of posts that haven’t been
scanned. This is true even though I am now running 1.5.2.
* I suggest breaking up the scanning into batches and having the person manually
do the next batch (of 300 or 500?) after the first batch is done.
* Plugin Author [Michael Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qqworld/)
* (@qqworld)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337448)
* Copy that, Thanks for reply.
* Plugin Author [Michael Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qqworld/)
* (@qqworld)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337452)
* Hi, please update v1.5.3.
* I think it may be because PHP runs for a limited time, so breaking up the scanning
into batches can not resolve this problem.
* now you can set a range to scan manually.
* Maybe someday i can find out a smarter way, I hope.
* Plugin Author [Michael Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qqworld/)
* (@qqworld)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337489)
* I found a smarter way to resolved this problem. using AJAX to scan posts one
by one.but it runs slower than 1.5.3. please update v1.5.4.
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337499)
* Unfortunately this didn’t finish, it stopped after 1448 entries. But it was much
more reliable than the old method. For some reason, however, I cannot access
the batch function anymore (although it is still there). If I could combine the
AJAX with the batch, hopefully I could go through all my images…
* Plugin Author [Michael Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qqworld/)
* (@qqworld)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337508)
* Please help me to test the newest version 1.5.5.
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337518)
* Version 1.5.5 stops after 1445 entries at speed set to “5” and at 1448 entries
with speed set at “1.” I didn’t try any other speeds.
* Plugin Author [Michael Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qqworld/)
* (@qqworld)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337532)
* Ummm..I suggest try to set start from 1400 to scan 1000 posts. if stops after
45/48 entries, means maybe some posts are special.
* And i will find out a way how to debug. and today is the Chinese National Day,
i have a whole week vacation, so many things to do, so please be patient.
* Thanks for help me to make this plugin powerful.
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337537)
* 1. No rush.
2. I didn’t realize I could still set a start number, because the
option is greyed out, but now I see you can do it if you first select how many
posts you wish to scan. So I did what you suggested. 3. You are right, post #
1448 is causing problems. Starting at 1449 allowed it to start again, but then
it only did two. #1450 seems to be a problem post as well. 4. Looking at these
two posts it is very easy to see what the problem is. The authors of these posts
must have written their posts in MS Word and then pasted them into WordPress,
creating lots of extra DIV tags, like this:
* ```
<blockquote><span style=)
...
... .......
... ... ...
```
* It seems that QQWorld is choking on this ugly code…
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337539)
* Here is the first post:
* [http://savageminds.org/2010/01/20/place-hacking/](http://savageminds.org/2010/01/20/place-hacking/)
* And here is the second:
* [http://savageminds.org/2010/01/28/concerned-anthropologists-letter-to-washington/](http://savageminds.org/2010/01/28/concerned-anthropologists-letter-to-washington/)
* Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/)
* (@luhmann)
* [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scan-old-posts/#post-5337541)
* This one also seems to have caused problems, although I’m less clear why. (The
use of a URL in the caption field?)
* [http://savageminds.org/2011/07/18/the-anthropology-of-freedom-pt-4/](http://savageminds.org/2011/07/18/the-anthropology-of-freedom-pt-4/)
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