Removing Missing Images From Fusker Collections

The following example goes through the exersice of first building a fusker collection with missing file blocks at the beginning of the fusker collection, in the middle of the fusker collection, and at the end of the fusker collection. Then works through the use of Image Surfer Pro Forms to remove those blocks.

Initial Configuration	Description Now we will work through a slightly more involved example as we attempt to get a clean fusker collection of Josie Maran pictures from UGO.com. The page is relatively "noisy" and full of images, but you will notice a couple of rows of images listed as "Latest Pictures" and "Josie Maran Community Photos". They claim to have 102 official pictures and 20 community pictures. Our goal will be to build a fusker collection of the 20 community images and let you figure out how to collect the official images. Our configuration will have the following important settings: Auto range when adding to the Collection Always start with image number: 1 Auto select URL links to images in forms Auto add individual images to lists We will use the Auto Range Override toolbar extension to override the auto ranging configurations above as needed.
Starting Page	After Clicking A Thumbnail	After
The first step really doesn't have anything to do with Image Surfer Pro - we simply clicked the thumbnail image and ugo.com kept us surfing in the same IE tab and took us to a page where the "community" Josie Maran images are shown. If you click around on the very small thumbnails on that page you'll notice the entire page reloads with new advertizing and the selected image now in larger (though still small) form. At this point we decided the ugo.com browsing method was not for us. So we explode the image information off the page into an Image Surfer Pro Form. In the form you will note nothing is selected since none of the images on the page link directly to other images. Thus this was not a thumbnail post which could have been processed directly.

Next Configuration	Description In the form we just generated we go ahead and check the box under the image "Josie_Maran_031.jpg" and process the form. This adds the one image to the fusker collection and shows the resulting file segment view. Once the image is in the fusker collection we wish to look for the other promised images by auto ranging the file segment. We notice the image added was #31. This tells us a couple things: The images are likely to be numerically stored The 20 images are not simply 1 through 20 as this was image #31 We want to look for the other possible images quickly. The easiest way is to search from 1 to some larger number that we hope will contain all 20 images. We set the Auto Range Override value to 50 and Auto Range the file segment.
Selected image on the form	After processing the form	After auto ranging the file
After taking these steps we have a fusker collection with a numerically fusked file accessing images "Josie_Maran_0001.jgp" through "Josie_Maran_0050.jpg". As we scroll through the visualization shown after the file was Auto Ranged, we find there are 20 actual images and the rest show up as missing file blocks. While this allows us to see the 20 images we were searching for, the missing files are problematic in that we don't want to click on them and they clutter up the visualization.

Final Configuration	Description The goal of our final step is to remove the references to the missing files form the Josie Maran fusker collection. The first step is rather obvious - by scrolling up and down our visualization we see that the valid images are in the range Josie_Maran_0002.jpg through Josie_Maran_0031.jpg. By modifying the numerical fusk of our file segment to have a start value of 2 and an end value of 31 we can remove the missing file reference from the beginning and end of the visualization. Removing the missing file references in the middle of the fusker collection could be done several ways, but using Image Surfer Pro Forms makes it easy. Without any change in configuration we take the following steps. Re-display the expanded view of the file segment Delete the existing file segment Generate an Image Surfer Pro Form from the visualization Uncheck the selection boxes for the missing images Process the Image Surfer Pro Form
Selected image on the form	After processing the form	After auto ranging the file
The final Josie Mara fusker collection is now clean with no missing file references and a full page of great images. NOTE: we made no attempt here to collect all of the available images - we'll leave that task to you.