Vault Update for March 2025

Hello retro soap community!

I thank you for your patience as @BoldRestless and I navigate on how to continue with the Vault going forward. Starting with bad news - due to changes with the registration process for Microsoft's Developer Program which is how I was able to host the Vault via OneDrive most recently, I am unable to continue hosting the Vault on OneDrive until further notice.

That being said, I'm willing to continue sharing access to the Vault via my Network Attached Storage/NAS (my personal cloud, in laymans terms). You will still be able to view episodes and upload episodes, however the procedures will be slightly different going forward.

Viewing Episodes

Simply click on this link to view the episodes - bit.ly/4hkIsuE. Navigate to the folder, and on the video file, either right-click (for computer/laptop users) or long tap (for mobile users), and choose "Open in new Tab".

If the video file still won't play after this, it may need to be downloaded and played using a different application, such as VLC.

Uploading Episodes

To contribute to the library of videos, please refer to the below upload links.

Upload to BB: https://bit.ly/4bDdg7k

Upload to GL: https://bit.ly/4iwYVvv

Upload to YR: https://bit.ly/4bViTO5

Before files are uploaded, please ensure the name of your video file follows the scheme (airdate - YYYY-MM-DD)-(full episode/clip). Example - 1992-07-05-Full Episode.mp4.

This will temporarily place the video files in the root folders of the soap until I find time to sort out the videos and place them into the correct folders.

Pros and Cons to this new method

One big benefit of moving out of OneDrive to my NAS is that I no longer have to segregate the soaps in order to stay under the 5TB quota, and is totally dependent on how much personal storage I have left (as of today, about 4TB). I have the ability of being able to expand the storage, albeit I'm waiting until Black Friday until 16TB hard drives go on sale again haha.

The new upload procedure also tightens control over how files are sorted and prevents accidental duplication of files, thus prematurely running out of storage space. You will also notice there is a name field for when you upload your files, so it helps the community to know who to thank every time a contribution is made. 

Some drawbacks of this new system is that because it is not being run out of Microsoft's servers and instead to my machine, it's dependent on 2 factors:

1) My personal internet connection
2) Whether or not my machine is on or off.

I leave my NAS on all the time, but sometimes power trips or outages will cause it to disconnect, though not very often. I'll do my best to keep everyone updated with the online status. If playback is a little slower than usual it's also because there's likely a high amount of traffic accessing the files. If it's unbearably laggy, please download the files and play them on your device instead of streaming them.

Please let me know if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them and I appreciate your patience on this, as I do have a very busy life outside of soap opera archiving aha.

Edited October 23Oct 23 by ChickenNuggetz92
Updated Links for October 2025

Just because I know there are people who are confused... and when they open this topic... the posts they see are not always about the VAULT and they don't see it immediately... and I'm little tired of getting PMs asking me WHERE to find this or that... because they don't know there is a new vault is -

SO - EVERYONE - CHECK @ChickenNuggetz92'S signature - there you will find link to the new vault. ❤️ Give all thanks to Him!  And @BoldRestless who is helping organize everything! 

 

Edited March 24Mar 24 by Maxim

19 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

@ChickenNuggetz92 What are your thoughts on what should be done with newly uploaded material? Do you want me to start moving it into the correct folders, or wait for some period of time (a week, a month?) to put things away so people have a chance to see what's new?

I'm thinking a week buffer unless of course I do it myself.

There are some uploads that have strangely big file sizes and I usually like to evaluate whether or not I want it re-encoded to a smaller file size without a noticeable loss of quality to save space.

On 3/23/2025 at 6:06 PM, BoldRestless said:

@ChickenNuggetz92 What are your thoughts on what should be done with newly uploaded material? Do you want me to start moving it into the correct folders, or wait for some period of time (a week, a month?) to put things away so people have a chance to see what's new?

Hi, I think it would be great if you moved the newly uploaded material to the correct folders in the vault - BUT create a sub-folder inside the folders called "New" so people can know that there's recently uploaded material available that they haven't already seen! Leave the newly uploaded material in the "New" folder for a while and then you can move them to their final/organized locations at your leisure. That is my humble suggestion.

5 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

I'm thinking a week buffer unless of course I do it myself.

There are some uploads that have strangely big file sizes and I usually like to evaluate whether or not I want it re-encoded to a smaller file size without a noticeable loss of quality to save space.

Ok, I'll check in next week.

 

BTW, two separate posters have uploaded a low quality version (taped off the TV) of the Christmas 1985 rebroadcast. I replaced it with a HQ version and deleted those. I also deleted a couple of other Y&R videos that are elsewhere in the Vault already: 9/9/86 episode called Ashley in Paris which is in the German episode folder and 1/18/85 which is already in the clips section. I think this is actually not a full episode, but clips someone had pasted together, possibly from different days. I don't know if the uploaders post here or will see this message, I hope they know we're very appreciative and value what they've shared, so feel free to pass that along if anyone knows them. ❤️

Edited March 25Mar 25 by BoldRestless

Did anyone happen to save Matt Clark & Victor Morgue confrontation clip in english that was on a channel some years ago before it was taken down?

Edited March 26Mar 26 by fivethej

Could you please upload more complete episodes of Y&R Vault from the 1990s and 2000s? Thank you!

I've been having an issue download from the vault today. Am I the only one. When I try  to download... it says Partially failed operation.  

WTH why isnt the website working now.

Right now I'm able to get to the Vault, but if I try to download I get an error that says

• The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.

Keep in mind this explanation from the Vault owner and simply wait and retry when it's not working:

Quote

Some drawbacks of this new system is that because it is not being run out of Microsoft's servers and instead to my machine, it's dependent on 2 factors:

1) My personal internet connection
2) Whether or not my machine is on or off.

I leave my NAS on all the time, but sometimes power trips or outages will cause it to disconnect, though not very often. I'll do my best to keep everyone updated with the online status. If playback is a little slower than usual it's also because there's likely a high amount of traffic accessing the files. If it's unbearably laggy, please download the files and play them on your device instead of streaming them.

 

2 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Right now I'm able to get to the Vault, but if I try to download I get an error that says

• The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.

Keep in mind this explanation from the Vault owner and simply wait and retry when it's not working:

 

I did and still getting that... like wtf

 

Thank you very very much for this great work! @ChickenNuggetz92 and @BoldRestless

Now It's ssaying 

Invalid Item 

The item does not exist 

 

WTF

4 hours ago, BigMAnOnDeck said:

Now It's ssaying 

Invalid Item 

The item does not exist 

 

WTF

Yes, I'm seeing the same thing ("Invalid item, this item does not exist")! Hopefully everything will resolve itself soon.

I tried opening to watch old y&r episodes it says file don't exist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Some] of the attitudes in the last few posts are absolutely deplorable and reeks of entitlement.