Lost Blog Post!
February 4th 2007 10:49
I lost an entire blog post today, after painstakingly researching it, preparing links for it, and completing the entire (lengthy) entry for publication! (It was totally finished when I lost it!) The post was for my "Writer's Notes" blog. I'd been switching back and forth so much between websites for info, as well as minimizing and maximizing MS-Word, to use some info from it, that I got mixed up and, instead of clicking the 'minimize' button, as I'd meant to do, I clicked the 'X'--and we all know what that does!
I had repeatedly clicked 'preview post' while working on the blog entry to get a look at the entry's appearance, but never clicked the 'create post' button. Has my post been irretrievably lost? I'm assuming so, since I tried everything I could think of to find it--including going into file folders I never even knew existed on my computer's hard drive!
I've certainly heard enough about how nothing is ever really lost on your hard drive until it's overwritten--though it does usually seem to take the real experts to find it, I realize! Also, that statement does assume that it has been saved to begin with--and I'm not at all certain that my blog entry has been. If there's anything you can do to help me retrieve my blog post, though, I sure would appreciate it--because it's going to be an absolute bear to reproduce!
Thanks a lot!
Jeanne Dininni
I had repeatedly clicked 'preview post' while working on the blog entry to get a look at the entry's appearance, but never clicked the 'create post' button. Has my post been irretrievably lost? I'm assuming so, since I tried everything I could think of to find it--including going into file folders I never even knew existed on my computer's hard drive!
I've certainly heard enough about how nothing is ever really lost on your hard drive until it's overwritten--though it does usually seem to take the real experts to find it, I realize! Also, that statement does assume that it has been saved to begin with--and I'm not at all certain that my blog entry has been. If there's anything you can do to help me retrieve my blog post, though, I sure would appreciate it--because it's going to be an absolute bear to reproduce!
Thanks a lot!
Jeanne Dininni
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Comment by Ahmed
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try your history settings.
are you using internet explorer or firefox?
whichever you might be, what you do is press ctrl and h at the same time, click on search and type in 'post' and press enter, you should get a bunch of corresponding links in your history.
oh wait, doesn't work with firefox
Also you could try searching your temp files if you were *not* using firefox since it does wierd things to temp files, I'll try to find out where Internet explorer keeps temp files, you should try here
Hope it helps, I've lost good work in this manner quite a few times myself, I know how you feel
Comment by Adrian
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Even if you don't accidentally click the "X", sometimes Orble has temporary glitches where you can't create posts... It's probably best to always draft your stuff in Word and then transfer it across...
Another thought: I've heard of writers who write whole chapters, and then deliberately throw the chapters away, in order to start afresh.
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
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Thanks for your attempt to help! To answer your question, I am using Internet Explorer. When I used ctrl-h, as you recommended, it generated a list of temporary internet files, though the rest of your suggestion ("click on search and type in 'post' and press enter") didn't really do anything. Perhaps I didn't understand your instructions perfectly.
Anyway, both yesterday and today, I looked through a long list of temporary internet files, hoping to locate the missing blog post, with no luck! (Soon I'll have to delete all these files--but not just yet!)
Thanks, too, for the link to the article on About.com which gave an overview of how to find and view temporary internet files. It seemed to tell me to do the things I'd already done, though. My true suspicion is that the post was either never saved to my hard drive or there's something else going on here that I don't quite have a handle on yet.
I'm beginning to feel that I'd better just learn to accept this and move on! I either must do my best to recreate the lost post or write an entirely new one! Being a full-time college student, though, I'd been hoping to avoid either scenario, since time can be so scarce--and so much had already been spent preparing the post the first time! Oh, well! That's life, I guess!
Thanks again, Ahmed, for your help!
Jeanne
Adrian,
This is the point at which I must wax philosophical! Thanks so much for your words of encouragement! I appreciate your empathy more than you know! And thanks for the tip about drafting my posts in Word! That's not at all a bad idea! I think I'll use your suggestion! In the long run, I'm sure it will save me a great deal of grief! Will Word documents be compatible with the HTML text in the blog templates?
As far as throwing away whole chapters goes, that would normally not be me! I generally work and rework my writing, crafting it until I get it just the way I want it, and then I'm ready to post or publish it. (At times, I might get rid of something that simply isn't working and start over, but not usually!) While I sometimes make changes to it after posting, my work is, by the time of posting, pretty much ready to go. That's why it's such a loss to me, after all the hard work and perfectionism that went into it--not to mention how much of my inner self went into it! That's why I'd so hoped to be able to retrieve it.
But, oh well, I'll just have to come to terms with it and work on another update as soon as I'm able! It's back to school all day tomorrow--and homework the rest of tonight--so who knows when I'll have time to work on it again! What a disappointment! (Perhaps I need to make my blog posts shorter and less complex. But I do like to give the reader value!)
Well, thanks again for commiserating with me! I'm sure I'll get through this one way or another!
Sincerely,
Jeanne
Comment by Adrian
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Nope! That's the annoying side. You have to add the "[coding]" "[/coding off]" stuff manually in Word... or remember what words need to be formatted, and insert them in Orble. I do this every time.
An alternative would be to write some macro to auto-Orble-format your Word text.
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Comment by Jay
Sorry to hear of your troubles - maybe we'll implement an auto-save feature at some point, but for the moment you are stuck
I'd also suggest that Adrian is right using another program to write your post in. I would suggest using Wordpad, since this doesn't use some of the strange characters that MSWord does. However, also it doesn't (I think) have an auto-save feature, which is kind of what you are after?
Maybe at some stage we will allow you to load an MSWord file into the Orble interface? Well, I can dream
Laters
Jay
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MSWord into the orble interface? Heh, I dunno, getting CSS working with orble would be a lot cooler. Sure, slightly steaper learning curve but it would pay off.
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We've been working on the CSS support - we'll have something you can use soon...
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Can't wait for the CSS support
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