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Monday, May 28, 2012

Google Blogger Disaster...

Update:  12/10/13
As of today - all the photos have been replaced in the blog!  It's taken me over a year to complete!
Butch at Norpoint
OK...  Here's what happened...  I traded in my old phone for a new one!  My two-year contract was finally up!   Was so excited!  The new one is faster & has a reputation for holding onto connections!  No dropped calls!  While at the AT&T store, the service person did a really nice job of changing out my sim cards etc.  Then she asked if I wanted her to "sync" my Google account.  "Sure" I replied!  She did that, filled out a ton of paperwork - I traded in my old phone for $80. & left with my nice new one.  


Today, I looked to see if all my screen saver photos had downloaded to my phone's "gallery".  They hadn't... neither had the photos that I kept on there of the grand-kids, horses, dogs etc.  But!  It's a BIG BUT...  here were 522 photos from my blog!  Hummm... not thinking - not much anyway - I thought why do I need to have all those photos on my phone???  Couldn't think of a single reason - so DELETED them with one key stroke!

Later in the morning, I went on-line - to my blog...  Guess what I found???  I think you probably KNOW by now what I found...  As it's the same thing YOU found when you checked out the blog today...  NO PHOTOS!  None AT ALL!  ALL gone!

Disaster for me - anyway - since the pictures are what I enjoy about blogging!  I went to my Picasa Web Albums & yes - you are correct - they were gone from there too!  I looked everywhere for a restore... but NO - No restore anywhere for the pictures - or for the blog...  The "back-up" key didn't do anything at all - so no idea what that's about. 

Was so darn mad about the whole thing!  Butch & I planned to take the guns & head for the Norpoint Shooting & Tactical Training Center today in Arlington.  They have a price break for women on Monday's & offered a half-off special for Veterans today - what a deal.  Believe me - I was ready to do some shooting!  Too bad they didn't have a target with the Google Blogger logo! 

I had downloaded the first year to a web-site that will turn it into a book - so have that much intact - but now I'm faced either with saying to heck with blogging - starting on from here - or trying to remember & restore all the photos.  Thankfully I do have two external hard drives that I use as back-up!  Don't know what I'll do yet, just take a step at a time I guess & start with my background photo & go from there!

Stayed tuned - even if it's pretty darn boring without the color!
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6 comments:

  1. AareneXMay 28, 2012 at 10:20 PM

    Ack. I feel your pain!

    But, tell me more about the website that turns blogs into a book??? Interested....

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  2. CGMay 28, 2012 at 10:52 PM

    Oh no! I'm so sorry. I really enjoyed all of the pictures you had on here:( But, will look forward to the "recreation"

    Looks like a fun day at the range, I sure wish we had a good one around here- I bought a new Ruger 10/22 Takedown almost a month ago and haven't even been able to really try it out yet! All the places we used to shoot are now full of houses now.

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    1. HHmsteadMay 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM

      You gave me a badly needed laugh! We have the same taste in cucumbers & guns! Wonder what that means??? :-) The "Takedown" sounds nice! Will look it up. The guy at the range is going to make some "improvements" to my S&W 38. More shock absorbing grip, make the cylinder rotate smooth as glass, etc.

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  3. FunderMay 29, 2012 at 9:08 PM

    Aaaagh tragic!

    When Google is good (gmail, web search) it's very very good. But when it's bad (user interface for all their other products) it's UNSPEAKABLY BAD.

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  4. HHmsteadMay 30, 2012 at 8:20 AM

    Thanks Funder - it has been... then - google has the design element for downloading your own full-size photo screwed up too - as you can see. I've made some changes to my tab pages, then going to start from most current & head backwards... doubt I'll remember All - the photos, but maybe in a l o n g while it will be back...

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