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Bone Voyage photos: what I found

I checked the share photo on all 1,067 Bone Voyage pages, one image at a time. Three groups came out of it:

112 pages	Photo is 1200 by 630 or bigger, which is what the platforms ask for. Genuinely crisp. Nothing to do.
577 pages	Big enough to render as a full-width card, but under the recommended size, so it looks soft on a modern screen. 250 of these are 600 by 400.
276 pages	Under 600 by 315, which is the floor. These show as a little thumbnail beside the link instead of a picture.
102 pages	The photo is gone from storage. The address still answers as if it worked, but it hands back the Bone Voyage homepage instead of a picture, which is exactly why a routine check passes it.

Put together: 853 of the 1,067 pages, about 4 in 5, are below the size the platforms recommend, and 378 of those are genuinely not working as cards at all. An earlier version of this page said only 276 were undersized. That number counted just the ones below the bare floor and let the soft middle group pass, which flattered the result.

You asked me to look for larger versions of the small photos. My first answer was that they did not exist, and that was wrong. I had checked Cloudflare storage, the local backup of the old site's uploads, and the other photos on each page, and come up empty. What I had not checked was the old hosting box itself.

It is still running, and it still has the original photos. The domain points at Cloudflare now, so nothing reaches that server by name any more, but it answers on its own address and hands over the files. Checking all 378 broken or undersized photos against it:

112 photos	A properly sized original is sitting there. Real photographs, no enlarging needed. One of them is 200 by 300 on the site and 3817 by 5726 on the old server.
166 photos	The original is small too, so enlarging is the only route.
100 photos	Not on the old server either. Genuinely gone.

I have not yet run the same check on the 577 soft ones, and that is probably the bigger prize, since they were skipped only because they were not broken. If the same proportion holds, a good share of those have a full-size original waiting too.

Where no original survives, enlarging works. I ran a 300 by 200 shot of dogs at a pet resort through the enlarger you already have on this machine and it came out at 1200 by 800 in about ten seconds, still clearly the same dogs and perfectly readable at card size. A 600 by 400 photo came out at 1600 by 1067 in about twenty seconds. It costs nothing and runs locally.

But a real original always beats an enlarged one, so the order matters. What I would do:

1. Pull the 112 real originals off the old server and repoint those pages.
2. Run the same check across the 577 soft ones and pull whatever comes back bigger.
3. Enlarge the 166 whose originals are small too.
4. Put the brand card on the 100 with nothing left to recover.

Steps one and two come first because every real original found is one fewer softened photo. Say go and I will run it. The full write-up, including what is recoverable and how, is on its own page: Bone Voyage photo recovery (password protected, same password as the health hub).

One thing worth acting on regardless: that old server is the only remaining copy of these originals. The local backup holds just the small crops the migration happened to need. If the hosting ever lapses, the full-size photos are gone for good, so a complete copy of the uploads folder belongs in cold storage.