The Pic-a-POD web site and all associated files were transferred to a new server last night (December 3rd).
The site contains files & databases where Pic-a-POD gets it’s lists of sources, URL of pics, news etc. It appears that these files did not survive the transfer!
So Pic-a-POD for Mac is currently incapable of getting any information or new pictures.
Pic-a-POD for iOS uses a different mechanism so it is still working but will not get any new pics.
Sorry for the inconvenience – I am working hard to get it restored as soon as possible.
UPDATE: Partial success – Pic-a-POD for Mac is now managing to get enough data so it can display the current pics (December 3rd). Changing the desktop will now also work. You may need to restart Pic-a-POD in order to see this.
However it is not yet capable of displaying any new pics – still working on it.
UPDATE 2 – 5th December: The server issues are gradually being resolved. Now it is reduced to a single problem – I cannot access the Pic-a-POD database on my server. Once that is fixed, Pic-a-POD for Mac & iOS should start functioning normally again.
UPDATE 3 – 6th December: Pic-a-POD for iOS is now working as expected. Pic-a-POD for Mac is still sometimes querying the wrong data (I think there is a caching problem caused by my multiple attempts to create a work-around), but some new pics are coming through now. The Lunar POD is causing some more problems, either by a massive coincidence or due to some incompatibility with my new server. Pic-a-POD is using computed addresses for the Lunar pics, but cannot get captions or text data. The computed addresses may be wrong sometimes, but I figured they were better than nothing!
UPDATE 4 – 8th December: Pic-a-POD should now be back online. There may be some issues with missing pics for 5th December but all new pics should now be coming in correctly. If there looks to be incorrect data for any day, refresh that pic and it might solve itself.
