Hello everyone,
it’s time for the final update on this issue. I’m very sorry to have to report that I have decided to not pursue this further. As I mentioned before, we don’t have the attachment files anymore and while we might be technically able to re-import the missing topics as text-only, I have decided that the risk of doing this on an operational forum is simply too big to continue. My worry is that we might end up with thousands of duplicate or corrupted posts and that’s not a situation I can afford to be in.
I’m very much aware that, even though this is a relatively small number of topics, these topics matter to you and I’m very sorry that I wasn’t able to restore them.
To try and make up for this situation I’ve made an additional donation of 250 euros to the Blender Development Fund today.