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I love that command. It has to be one of the best commands ever put on a computer. I use it and abuse it more than I care to say. And it has saved me from hours of work redoing things on more than one occasion.

However, sadly it cannot undo things I did the day before. I cannot sit down at my computer on a Sunday night, and pres Edit Undo to undelete the email I deleted on Saturday. Bummer.

It is a powerful function, just not that powerful.

Lately I have noticed my computer has been acting oddly, a little sluggish, and more specifically some programs do not work correctly. No I do not have a virus, yes I defrag, and CCClean it often, so thats not the issue. Not sure what the issue is, but I think I am going to need to wipe the drives and start fresh (before it crashes). So, on Friday I decided to do a backup of one drive. I got it all backed up, plus I backed up all client files incase anything happens.

On Saturday, I was looking at something in my email settings, not sure why or what, but I was looking around. I noticed a little check box saying something to the effect of delete messages more than 30 days old. Not sure why, but I thought it was a good thing. I do not need the messages in the trash more than 30 days old. It’s just trash.

Sunday night I am looking for an email with a username and password in it from awhile back. I cannot find it. Email dates back to July 23 only. Hmm, thats strange. I check another folder, and another and another. The folders that are not empty, only go back to July 23.

Where the hell is my email, why do I have empty folders, and why does everything start @ July 23?

July 23? Thats like a month ago. Why do I have nothing more than a month old … OH CRAP!!! edit Undo. EDIT UNDO! EDIT UNDO!!!!!!!!!

Damn, no such luck. At the flick of a switch I lost everything from more than a month ago. AND the drive I backed up on Friday, was NOT the drive I store email on. Technically all is not totally lost, I did a full email back up a few months ago, so at most I am only missing about 2 months worth of mail. Anything prior to 3 months ago I can reclaim from the archive if needed. But now there is about a 2 month gap where I do not have any email message.

Not a huge deal as it is a relatively short span. But annoying as I am very anal about email. I keep everything except spam. Oh well.

Lesson 1 learned. Back up often.

Lesson 2 learned. Don’t mess with the settings

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Well not really.

I am having issues with my phone lines. Something corrupt somewehre I suppose. 4 out of 5 jacks do not work, no idea how long the fifth will last.

Anyone who calls and does not get an answer, sorry. Nothing I can do until MTS comes by to fix it.

Sorry for any trouble but as always you can reach me via email or Skype.

Thanks

Myles

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Sorry to all who may have noticed the blog went offline right after my last post, and although it is back now, my custom template has been lost.

Although the front end of my blog appeared as it should, the back end that I see, had some errors. So I decided to fix the errors and make my blogging efforts a little easier on myself. I also decided I would upgrade the whole system to the latest release of MT.

In doing so I discovered I could not install MT4, even though my server has everything I need and passes all checks. So after messing around with it, I decided to revert back to this version. After the reversion, I updated the database as well. All went well, except my custom template seems to have been wiped out. So I will have to either go back into my files and re-upload the CSS files, or build a whole new template.

But the blog is here at least, so no rush.

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