Forum Woes

[administrator]

Hopefully the withdrawal pains haven't been too bad

IMPORTANT ADVICE:
Please don't spend a lot of time creating long posts until next week after we get things truly fixed up. If you want to write a long post, please consider writing it on your PC in a word processor, saving the file, then cut-n-paste into the forums. There is a good chance the server will go down again between now and next Monday!

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We have a hard drive failing on the server, and the database has quite a few bits of corrupted data. I've managed to recover some but not all of the "invalid" PMs. If it was recoverable, the sender should see it in their "sent PMs" box. You'll probably have to cut-n-paste and re-send it though, since the ID#s for a few hundred PMs got garbled.

I've looked through the posts and haven't seen any garbled or missing posts, but the database reported several hundred "missing" rows in the posts table, so I'm guessing that a fair number of posts have gone missing.

I could've restored from backup, but the most recent valid backup was on the 15th and we would have lost all posts between then and now, so I figured it is better to have a few random old posts gone than to have all the new ones deleted...

The server still needs a new hard drive but it is housed at a "colocation" facility and I won't be able to replace the drive until this weekend.

Thanks for your patience!

- Jeff

[KnottedYet]

the withdrawl has been TERRIBLE!!!! Oh, the anguish!!

(was that short enough?)

[snapdragen]

**uncurls from fetal position**

I wuz goin' through withdrawls........

[kelownagirl]

me too..... I kept coming back and checking, and checking and checking....

[Running Mommy]

so it wasn't just me!! I couldn't imagine a day without my friends at TE!

[salsabike]

I emailed Mimitabby at home and said "HEY..."

Addiction lives here on TE.

Thanks for the hard work, Jeff!

[Sky]

I'm glad TE is back!

Thanks, Jeff!!!

[han-grrl]

we all appreciate your efforts!

[administrator]

I thought I had them fixed last night but it turns out not. I've made a few more tweaks and I think they are working now.

To reiterate earlier advice, if you've sent someone a PM in the past 24 hours, they probably did not receive it, since the ID#s in the links in the "you have a PM" emails are incorrect (thus the "invalid" message when clicking on the link).

However, it is *most likely* still in your "sent items" folder of your PMs, and you can click into the message and then forward it on (or cut-n-paste into a new message) to resend.

[Trek420]

Yay, Jeff!

[Xrayted]

Thanks Jeff! I actually had gotten a text message about it too. hehe. We are a faithful bunch, aren't we?

[crazycanuck]

Thanks Jeff

What would we do without TE *bikes off & away*

C