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    Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Thanks to everyone for your patience and the encouraging / entertaining messages you sent me...

    Please let me know if anything is still broken.

    As I had to restore from backup, we will have lost a few posts (mostly from Monday); I'm sorry if that was your best post ever, maybe you can try again .
    Franck.

    There's an A.P.P. for that!

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by Franck View Post
    Thanks to everyone for your patience and the encouraging / entertaining messages you sent me...
    So err, you got that sheep's head I sent you in anger?....sorry, it was sent purely out of frustration

    Please let me know if anything is still broken.
    The towel rail in my bathroom's still kaputt

    As I had to restore from backup, we will have lost a few posts (mostly from Monday); I'm sorry if that was your best post ever, maybe you can try again .
    They say you're only as good as your last post.....that leaves me a nothing man

    Seriously though, thanks for all your efforts to resurrect normal service. Having been in IT for 25 years, I know just what it's like when things go titicus verticus!

    Thanks
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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    It's alive!

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    moo - let the cattle stampede recommence

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Woohoo!!! We can start living again

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    We've all had to cope with the real world for the last few days - I'm not sure it was ready

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    It would have been nice to have had an e-mail or something soon after it happen ?

    36 hours in and no response to my 2 e-mails it was still a mystery. Was it my PC etc ?

    Maybe something for the future

    Nice to see its back and i ts wo..ork i n g fin e

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Well done to all the tech-gnomes who got this back up and running again - and Thank-you

    (Though I am slightly embarassed that I missed it quite as much as I did - what else did I do on my computer before I joined this blinkin forum???)

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by Franck View Post
    As I had to restore from backup, we will have lost a few posts (mostly from Monday); I'm sorry if that was your best post ever, maybe you can try again .
    I put a post about who really killed J F K , hell of a surprise with original film footage ?

    If I get time will post it again

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    It would have been nice to have had an e-mail or something soon after it happen ?

    36 hours in and no response to my 2 e-mails it was still a mystery. Was it my PC etc ?

    Maybe something for the future

    Nice to see its back and i ts wo..ork i n g fin e
    We need a quivering in the corner suffering withdrawal symptoms smilie. (Wow! Spell check )

    My guess is too few hands and too many members for an email, but a "Watch this space" home page would have been nice. I wasted a lot of time thinking it was something my end, and worried it might have been something really disastrous at the forum end.

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    I am so happy I can cancel my place at forum rehab, the withdrawal symptoms were so bad.

    But on a positive side it made me more sociable this week like eating lunch with my colleagues instead of sitting on the computer and talking to my family. Anyway back to normal life now thanks FrancK

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    I thought it was quite funny, everytime I logged onto Facebook and had messages of desperation!

    Ahh life is back to normal now
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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    I seemed to have lost some of my privileges eventhough I received an e-mail saying my membership fees were about to be taken from my a/c

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    As a serial forum admin / webmaster myself I know how problematic these things can be.

    I've had to burn the midnight oil on a number of occasions where I've frantically been rebuilding SQL databases and rebuilding forum posts from fragments of corrupt data. It's amazing how quickly a problem like this teaches you about Cron jobs and Backups

    to Franck and his troupe of highly trained Net-Goblins!

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    While the forum has been down

    I’v done the weeding

    Washed (and polished) the car

    Written, all my thank you letters

    Done the washing up (and the ironing)

    Cleaned (and polished) the windows

    Done the shopping (and put some money in the charity box)

    Compacted and repaired the hard drive (and backed it up)

    Eaten all my greens

    Practiced my Ochos

    Cleaned my teeth

    I have even done some work (and paid my bills)



    Thank goodness normallity has been restored

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Thank you, Franck
    We all feel much better now, and other than chocolate, there's no help against forum-withdrawls

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by bigdjiver View Post
    We need a quivering in the corner suffering withdrawal symptoms smilie. (Wow! Spell check )

    My guess is too few hands and too many members for an email, but a "Watch this space" home page would have been nice. I wasted a lot of time thinking it was something my end, and worried it might have been something really disastrous at the forum end.
    A simple e-mail shot would be easy, it was done after 2 days

    I notice for last few weeks I got 'timed out' for more then I use to. I put that down to the 'upgrades'. Maybe something more sinister ?

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    A simple e-mail shot would be easy
    ... not if all the email addresses are stored in the same database as the rest of the forum, if the database was the part that was broken.
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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    ... not if all the email addresses are stored in the same database as the rest of the forum, if the database was the part that was broken.
    To be fair, there was a fair bit of communication on Facebook about how Franck's restore was going. Seemed like a great way of getting the information out there, without having to rely on getting anything out of the forum.

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    Re: Forum's back! Sorry it took so long...

    Quote Originally Posted by Andy McGregor View Post
    We've all had to cope with the real world for the last few days - I'm not sure it was ready
    It's exhausting for sure.

    I haven't had a night in since Sunday and I'm out again tonight.

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