MEFA members,
I've identified some stories that MAY have been deleted because of my
screw-up.
Of these stories, all that remains is the summary. I've reproduced the
first 80 characters here. I have the rest, if this isn't enough.
If these are your stories (nominators or authors) we'll have to
re-enter all the data.
Again, I'm very sorry.
Unfortunately, anything that didn't already have a summary, or didn't
get a summary with today's edits will be totally lost.
ID 59: Faramir's sixth birthday is observed. Will he be given what he
wants the most?
ID 393: How Gandalf tamed Shadowfax--and vice versa.
This one I'm not sure about, because there's not a
duplicate, and most of them have duplicates.
ID 509: Something for March 25, Ring Day and Gondorian New Year, and
the anniversary of
This one also doesn't have any duplicates.
ID 476: "He smiles and leads her, tender as a lover, to the dance. \" A
dowager lady of
ID 332: \"The Return of the Shadow\" is the sequel of both \"The Tides
of Time and the B
ID 560: "Then Mardil could no longer restrain [E?rnur], and he rode
with a small escort
Of these, I'll be able to recover (from May 7th) ID 59: Branwyn's
Birthday Kisses. It may not be complete, but that one I do have. I'm
going to find out if Bluehost does any database backups, but I don't
see anything, so I am guessing they don't.
I did an export of the site on May 7th, about 09:30 GMT, and have
stories up to ID=266 in it. I'll check those to see if any of the
'empty' IDs are that low, besides 59.
ID 257: Lindelea's The Decoy Hobbit showed up missing a title, and I
have data from the May 7 backup for that one, as well, but somehow I
didn't see it on the comparison list.
I will restore these two as best I can tonight, before I open the site
again.
The 'N/A' problem seems to be because N/A got in the list of possible
selections. I don't know if it's my fault or if someone added an N/A to
several of the input boxes. In any case, it shouldn't be a problem any
more, but I'm still testing it.
It would be a good idea to send a Special Notice with this information,
so that all can see it. Also, *everybody* should check their list of
nominations and stories. I don't think there's any way to recover this.
I know exactly what I did, and hindsight is 20-20. I picked the wrong
command to update the summary, and did a 'replace' instead of 'update'.
I think I've fixed it all, but I'll be testing more this evening, and
once I'm SURE it works, I'll open it back up.
Anthony