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by **Toby B.** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 4:59 am

hmmm, not really sure what happened here.

maybe a member deleted a post they did or something.

Toby

by **EvLwMn** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 9:40 am

I noticed that too. I still can't see Olly's latest post (I haven't changed any display options though). The only thing I did in that thread was delete one of my posts - it was a double post and it was really long and two of them were taking up too much space. That's what I was working on when I started having the server problems I brought up in the Mod forum. Maybe all the connectivity trouble I was having caused some data to be corrupted or something.

Maybe Peter can shed some light on things. :wink:

by **Peter** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:05 am

Hmmmm...that thing resists my attempts to fix it...wait...need a larger hammer...

by **EvLwMn** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:12 am

Yeah - I changed my view then posted a reply. Now I have at the bottom, page 2 of 1 - very strange indeed!! And now I can't see 90% of the posts there.

I got a hammer you can borrow :wink:

It's my BFH - a 20# sledge I keep in my office. It's a visual aid!!

by **Peter** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:27 am

Seems I have two possibilities...I wait 24h and optimize mySQL again...does not allow it now...or I try the big hammer, but may have to split it...hmmmm...I'll try the hammer, but first move it away that no one posts into it while I try to fix it...

by **EvLwMn** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:43 am

OK - cool. I noticed you're working on it now.

I still got that hammer for ya though :wink:

by **Peter** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:51 am

Not really a geek fix to select every single posting to be split and this way pull them individual from mySQL and avoid the DB error, but it worked... :thumbs:

by **EvLwMn** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:55 am

Cool. Do you know what caused it? I hope the little server problem (or whatever the problem was) yesterday wasn't the culprit. If so - sorry about that. But I had no control over it.

by **Peter** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:58 am

You could not cause that...no idea what it was...odd thing...in worst case I have backups...

by **EvLwMn** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:07 pm

I didn't think so. The only thing I could think of was maybe the data was corrupted during transfer. But I agree - not likely.

OMG!!! A MAN with backups :wink:

Guess I should let you in on the joke - Toby is TERRIBLE about backing up stuff and has lost data in a big way before. We had a conversation one day about men having a thing about backups - i.e. never doing them. He said it's a man thing :lol:

I have to get on him all the time to back up his code for the site. We lost something recently because nobody backed it up before changing something (I guess I have to share in the blame, but he changed it last

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by **Toby B.** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:12 pm

EvLwMn wrote:I didn't think so. The only thing I could think of was maybe the data was corrupted during transfer. But I agree - not likely.

OMG!!! A MAN with backups Guess I should let you in on the joke - Toby is TERRIBLE about backing up stuff and has lost data in a big way before. We had a conversation one day about men having a thing about backups - i.e. never doing them. He said it's a man thing I have to get on him all the time to back up his code for the site. We lost something recently because nobody backed it up before changing something (I guess I have to share in the blame, but he changed it last )

hey thats enough Toby-bashing :wink:

I admit I am horrible with doing backups. I am getting a little better though. The biggest goof I did w/o a backup cost me nearly 8GB of data. :oops:

Toby

by **EvLwMn** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:19 pm

I'm not Toby-bashing!

Am I or am I not always on your case about backups?? :wink:

Did you or did you not add a comment about backing up the code when we were working on the site last night?? As in "yes, I'll back up the code first" when you mentioned tweaking it? And I didn't even say ANYTHING about backups that time. I guess I'm getting through to you after all

by **Toby B.** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:24 pm

EvLwMn wrote:I'm not Toby-bashing! Am I or am I not always on your case about backups?? Did you or did you not add a comment about backing up the code when we were working on the site last night?? As in "yes, I'll back up the code first" when you mentioned tweaking it? And I didn't even say ANYTHING about backups that time. I guess I'm getting through to you after all

I was only razzing you geesh!!! Yes you are getting through to me about the backups....

I found some cool mods for the test page to try out one of these days. I will let you know how it goes.

Toby

by **Foolhardy** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:46 pm

Well at least you didn't hoze the backup the same way you hozed the original, like I did this summer!

*slaps forehead and walks away in shame*

Heh. There are some lessons every geek has to learn the hard way...

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