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Don’t worry, this has all been fixed since then.

I managed to do something stupid two weeks ago that I just noticed.

When I was developing the pinker33 theme for Corinne I tested it on my blog.  I noticed loads of strange characters and found that the answer may have been something to do with my database.  So, I ran the plugin suggested and let it do it’s job.  It did it’s job but didn’t do anything to help the situation.  Later I found a corrupted font to be the problem.

Today I was testing another theme, and noticed that it seemed to be clipping a lot of my posts.  That was odd, so I switched back to the old theme to see if it was just that.  Nope.  I had lost a variety of posts for no reason whatsoever.

My new server doesn’t backup like my old one and I couldn’t find a backup that was a month old, so I scoured my hard drives for the file I thought I made before running the plugin.  No luck.  So, I’ve lost these posts forever.

How many have I lost?  Well, I seem to have lost the majority leading up to September.  Nine months worth of posts just gone, like that, and as far as I know I have no backups that I can use to resurrect them. I’m going to private a lot of the damaged posts and throughout the next month try to remake them the best I can remember… but it’s a shame they’ve disappeared.  It’s a shame I didn’t make a backup.

Let this be a lesson.  Keep things safe.  Make backups.  Be secure.

Also, I might just have to go and start backing up my computer too after this. :O [I know, I'm stupid...]

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Ok, I may have been a little conservative with the figures.  I’ve lost a lot more than just up to September.  Aww crap… all my hard work.   I’ll detail what’s broken forever tomorrow.  Thankfully, it seems to have picked the majority up till September to ruin… Others are picked randomly.

Extra Extra:

I just finished marking all the posts.  103 posts were wrecked (which is about a third of my posts).  This REALLY sucks.

Extra Extra Extra:

Well, it seems that with the help of google I only lost two posts.  Phew!  Sorry for freaking you guys out.