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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while...  Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:33 am |
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Just a headsup for those that read the iFelix Blog that there won't be any updates for a while as the software I use is on my PowerBook and the hard disk has just failed (without warning).
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:36 pm |
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Sorry to hear that. Hope that things are back up and running shortly (and you dont lose anything in the process).
Keep us informed.
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:44 pm |
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Sorry guy! That sucks 
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:52 am |
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The good news is that using Firewire Target Disk Mode (using the PowerBook as a firewire drive) means that I have managed to retrieve the Blog data files (as well as the more important other files on the PowerBook) and I am now trying to get the application to work on my other Mac.
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MaksimSmelchak
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:17 pm |
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Hi Jimbo,
To be honest, I never could get you blog to come up well and I have no idea why.
I originally thought it was because I'm still stuck with dinosaur dial-up, but I tried to access your blog from a friend's PC with DSL and had the same problem.
I wish you luck figuring things out.
Shabbat Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:11 pm |
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The problem is not the hosting, the blog there is working fine.
The problem I have is with the raw data behind the blog and that is a different story. Potentially one solution is to re-input the data which would be nigh on impossible with over 650 entries...
I have managed to retrieve a blog backup to the 17th December, so I would need to manually add about 20 entries... However I do have five blogs...
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:48 am |
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Good news, I have managed to retrieve the all important blog data. I should be able to re-build the blog and publish new stuff before the end of the day.
More importantly I have managed to salvage a lot of files from the PowerBook including some digital photographs which I would have otherwise lost.
Moral of the story, always make a back up.
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MaksimSmelchak
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:48 pm |
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Hi Jimbo,
I'm very happy for you.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:23 pm |
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I have now managed to salvage the most recent blog data and integrate it into the backup I had from the 17th December. The preview is working and I am now uploading the blog. You won't see any difference as I have not added any new entries.
Once I have successfully published (which is taking it's time as it is publishing the full 50 odd MB again) I will be able to add new entries.
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:19 pm |
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:52 pm |
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Excellent work, and well done for being organised enough to recover from this. I know how on edge this kind of thing can make you feel! 
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:22 pm |
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Well I was a bit presumptuous and it wasn't actually okay.
However after tweaking and a bit more testing I now have the Blog software working on the other Mac and I have been publishing this morning without issue. Looks like it is all now working.
Isn't it nice that Apple have now released a new laptop...
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Blog won't be updated for a while... Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:33 pm |
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| Quote (CyberShadow @ 09 Jan. 2006 (22:52)) | | Excellent work, and well done for being organised enough to recover from this. I know how on edge this kind of thing can make you feel! |
Having once lost a lot of data, I dropped my Toshiba Laptop on the floor and killed the hard drive, I now always work under the assumption that unless you have two copies of a computer file it doesn't actually exist...
In the end I was lucky and could retrieve all the data from the dead PowerBook.
However in recreating the blog on the new Mac I was able to replace virtually all the postings (five blogs over three years) and only lost about 12 postings overall (and as I had the information I could recreate and replace those very easily.
Moral of the story, have a backup, always._________________ Jimbo
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