Good question.
You may remember there was a blog here called Fevered Mutterings (v3), packed to the rafters with wibblings. Well, yesterday I realised I hadn’t archived it properly. So I went into my webspace to do just that.
It involved moving files around into one folder, so I could export that folder onto my laptop for archiving. When I did so, WordPress seems to have automatically tried to “fix” my blog – which involved installing blank versions of my content files over the top of them. In other words: it’s all gone. Years of it.
There’ll be a lot of broken links out there. Blimey.
I know, yes, absolutely, I should have done this and I should have done that. There’s a way of exporting all your work as an .xml file. Yes, I’m aware. But I had no idea that this ‘live’ webspace would try to correct itself while I was working in it – otherwise I would have been around forty thousand times more careful. I would probably have left well alone until I had memory sticks bulging with every scrap of writing.
But I didn’t and I don’t, and now it’s all gone.
Contrary to what you might think…no, I’m not in the depths of a whisky bottle right now. I was archiving the site because I wanted to reboot it, so change were already in the air. And I’m not too precious about most of the writing I’ve done for fun. If I wrote it, it’s still in my head somewhere, so it’s a chance to write some of my favorite posts for the second time. And it’s a chance to start as I meant to go on from the start last time – if that’s not too tortuous a sentence.
So, welcome to Fevered Mutterings version 4: less bugs, more stuff, and far more stable. You’ll see.
Image: djking
