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MacGUI Downloads gone

No, the wayback machine doesn’t have the files. The only files/backup publicly available right now is the 2013 archive that I uploaded to archive.org.

Is anyone in contact with the site owner to retrieve a more recent copy of the site?
 
He went a step further and took the entire thing offline - the domain doesn't resolve to anything for me anymore.
 
All the more reason to hoard everything you want in your home RAID drive. I don’t trust the cloud or internet to store anything I care about. That includes my classic Mac software.
 
I would've scraped this site but the site admin put very strict rules in place to prevent that, to the extent of limiting downloads per IP per day and all sorts of other restrictions, which is a shame because if you're putting stuff on the Internet for people to download for free, that should also include them downloading the whole thing if they wish to.
 
joshc said:
I would've scraped this site but the site admin put very strict rules in place to prevent that, to the extent of limiting downloads per IP per day and all sorts of other restrictions, which is a shame because if you're putting stuff on the Internet for people to download for free, that should also include them downloading the whole thing if they wish to.
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In Dogcow's defense, bandwidth isn't free.
 
Iesca said:
In Dogcow's defense, bandwidth isn't free.
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There are good solutions to that problem, such as hosting a complete archive at archive.org, or on a different server. I don't think Dogcow ever exercised that. I'm the one who put the 2013 snapshot on archive.org so that people could access all the files more easily.
 
Maybe if someone were to kindly reach out, there might be a chance that they would upload the complete collection up to archive.org.
If server hosting is the issue, I wouldn’t see why that wouldn’t be reasonable.
 
Wow.

I actually learned a lot of good information on his site; he wrote a lot of good articles over the years about some of the inner-workings and history of the Mac. I respect his decision to do whatever he wants with his content but, damn, that's disappointing.
 
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