A coding error has caused a majority of images and profile pictures to be deleted

[Ucwepn]

Muddy it is very disappointing that this happened, as the site owner I take full responsibility. Thehsvdude who is the system expert has put over a year of hard work into this site but incidents/accidents can't be avoided. When he attempted to restore the backup after installing updates to the site the backups appear to have been somehow corrupted and the attachment data and avatars were lost. Thehsvdude is my son and gets no money for his work, he does it as a hobby and to help me and in turn all the members. We have never run a website before and we are learning as we go along. As Super suggested the best method to store pictures online in safety is to use a service like photo bucket or similar and they will be safe in the cloud and can be linked to the site posts easily.