The secret of recovering lost posts
bababardwan
April 16, 2010, 10:39 AM posted in General Discussion哇，了不起. I just discovered a way to recover lost threads !! Such a strange journey of discovery though. I went to look for my Hanzi unicode thread about 3 hours ago and all that was there was xiao_liangs comment..nothing else.So I posted the question to hape as to whether he'd be kind enough to post the link again [no idea what happened to that].Anyhow,just now every link to this thread was broken [dunno how I got onto it this afternoon].So I thought I'd check for it in my posts and clicking on that still showed a broken link.But here's the secret my friends.I then clicked on the edit button and this should my original post.I then re-published in general conversations and not only did my original post appear ,but also all the responses.Eureka !!
bababardwan
Actually I suspect the reason these posts went MIA is because they were user generated posts that did not belong to any "group" in the new system.The key was republishing them to a group and I guess most of them probably belong in General Discussion.
zhenlijiang
Baba some of such "non-group" posts went MIA and yet others did not. It seems arbitrary to me.
zhenlijiang
April 16, 2010, 10:55 AM10Q 10Q 10Q Bababardwan!!!!! （＾◇＾）
bababardwan
我以前没看过“10Q“不过我猜意思是”谢谢你“【因为听起来”Thankyou"】，对吧？
zhenlijiang
Uh yes sorry. I just got so excited at recovering my post.
Thank you Thank you Thank you!
bababardwan
不客气。。我很喜欢“10Q"...谢谢你教我了
bababardwan
April 16, 2010, 11:22 AM我以前没看过“10Q“不过我猜意思是”谢谢你“【因为听起来”Thankyou"】，对吧？
bababardwan
April 16, 2010, 11:27 AMActually I suspect the reason these posts went MIA is because they were user generated posts that did not belong to any "group" in the new system.The key was republishing them to a group and I guess most of them probably belong in General Discussion.
bababardwan
April 16, 2010, 12:16 PMThis has made me wonder about old posts that may have been lost...MIA. If one looks at the bottom of the community conversations page,you will see there are 347 pages of community conversations to scroll back through. Strangely, page 347 which should have the oldest stuff has some really recent stuff mixed in.Page 346 seems to have some stuff going back to April14 2008..I hope they have some stuff from before that [I know the very original stuff was lost in previous changeovers...was it prior to this dashboard going back to mid 2007 though? ...I can't quite recall],though it all seems out of chronological order now.Anyhow,there are a lot of posts you will note that have been ascribed to the general discussion group but which have zero comments after them.Hopefull these comments haven't been permanently lost and are just MIA as above and need to be republished.But to do it the above way would be a mammoth task so I wish CPod the best in recovering them.Jiayou !!
zhenlijiang
April 16, 2010, 01:34 PMBaba maybe I spoke too soon. A poddie posted a comment on that "You're a 10 yr old Chinese boy. What do you like?" post I "recovered". I could see (the beginning of) her comment on the dashboard but when I went to the post it was nowhere to be seen. The number of comments for the post (thread) had gone up though, from (0) to (1) so her comment had registered in some way.
Grrrr!
bababardwan
Sorry zhen,
I don't really get that. I can see all 24 comments [which includes subthreads] and I can also see the 3 main threads [and the count number is 3] so I can't work out this 0 to 1 that you mention.I've just taken a copy of the lot and can send it to you if you like.
zhenlijiang
Baba I don't understand why! I'm only seeing 22 comments. And it says Comments (2) at the top now whereas it was (0) when I recovered this post and re-published. The latest additions that made the Comment count go from 0 to 2 (so, from 22 to 24 total)--from jen_not_jenny, then myself--are not showing up for me at all, not even in the copy you emailed me just now.
bababardwan
Sorry zhen, I agree it's very strange and I can't explain it or find a solution. The best I can suggest is to make a really good copy of what it is displaying now,then go back to that same edit place and see if republishing recovers it. Otherwise I think you'll have to put a request in to tech support and hope they'll get back to you in a timely fashion. Best of luck :)
ps ...maybe we need to make copies of important posts till it stabilises a bit.
zhenlijiang
Hmm Baba I don't think I'll be making any more posts that have any personal importance to me, for the time being.
Sorry to trouble you again after all your help already, but could I ask you to copy and fwd me just jen_not_jenny's comment? I would appreciate it so very much ...
bababardwan
真,
I'm really sorry but I just checked through my tabs and I don't have it. I got the 24 number from the community page [I never actually went and counted them] and the 3 from the top of the thread, but when I went back to look the number was 2 [even though there were 3 main posts in the thread].I never actually saw just jen not jenny's comment.I found her profile and checked there but it just takes you to your thread and stil can't find it. Good luck.
zhenlijiang
Thanks Baba. 周末快乐 ☆彡
bababardwan
April 16, 2010, 02:12 PMSorry zhen,
I don't really get that. I can see all 24 comments [which includes subthreads] and I can also see the 3 main threads [and the count number is 3] so I can't work out this 0 to 1 that you mention.I've just taken a copy of the lot and can send it to you if you like.
user76423
April 16, 2010, 02:39 PMdid you empty your cache?
zhenlijiang
Sorry do you mean me hape?
zhenlijiang
Assuming you meant me, yes I've tried that now. Still no, so I'm giving up now (for tonight). Thanks anyway.
zhenlijiang
April 16, 2010, 02:42 PMSorry do you mean me hape?
zhenlijiang
April 16, 2010, 03:48 PMAssuming you meant me, yes I've tried that now. Still no, so I'm giving up now (for tonight). Thanks anyway.
paulinurus
April 16, 2010, 10:54 AMomg! now there are secrets on how to recover and discover posts! Next we have to game through levels for higher levels in this Cpod's dungeon for learning Chinese!