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My archive has disappeared. The very first entry is there and the recent stuff is there, but the stuff inbetween has gone; you can clink the link but it doesn't work. While there's only a month's stuff missig, or so, it's still 20,000 words or so, at a guess, because I posted up loads of old Stylus reviews as well as plenty of new stuff. Does anyone know what's happened to it? I can probably do it all again, but if it's recoverable obviously I'd rather not. I seem to remember Marcello have his archive vanish a while ago (obv. considerably larger than mine) and someone explaining how to recover it in simple terms.

Help much appreciated!

The addy, if that helps, is;

http://www.auspiciousfish.blogspot.com

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

have you tried going to your blogs archives section of blogger.com, and republish all?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

How does one do that? Is it simple? I shall peruse the website tomorrow, but have to go home now. I bet it's dead simple, I am just a luddite.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

3 steps:

log into blogger.

click the archives icon.

republish all.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

In the blogger controls, there is an "archives" button, and in that section there should be a "republish all" button. That usually does it.

HOWEVER, let me scare you a little. My girlfriend uses Blogger, and it decided not to let her change her templates or update her archives from September until late March. Blogger is huge and unweildly and if any actual problems exist within the system, they may take forever and ever to fix. Hey, whaddya want for free.

In the future, these kinds of questions are usually answered thoroughly on the troubleshooting forum, under "support" on the blogger main page.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

This happened to me as well, DJ Martian is right.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: and it decided not to let her change her templates or update her archives from September until late March.

For me it's : June 2001 right through to January 2003

I manually link to these months on my blog, [but i can't update the templates to reflect those months archives, in relation to matching the current template.]

There has been a problem with blogger since around November 19th 2002, something happened then - and blogger have NOT communicated what or what they are doing to investigate the problem.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys should use movable type.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys should use movable type.

OTM, but that involves buying commercial server space, and nagivating the installation of scripts, which can be sticky for the novice. It was sticky for me, anyway.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

this situation should be fixed soon, everything in blogger is being moved to new servers with new, upgraded software, and one of the problems targeted is this disappearing archive thing.

MoveableType would be great but my ISP will only allow users into /root through ssh, and they only allow ssh from a static IP, and who the hell has a static IP any more (I don't anyway)?

― kyle, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That doesn't appear to have worked; the archive section says it's updated but the archives simply aren't there on the blog. Maybe it is just the server problems and will be fixed now Google's on board. I shall consult troubleshooting later.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

If your server can't work with MT (my can't either, which is why I wanna upgrade when money's less tight) and Blogger's getting you down... check out Blog. It seems this prog is little known. Anyway, I've been using it a while and it's pretty good -- it does what Blogger does only offline on your desktop = more control for the user. (See
my blog for an example of it in action -- I'm sure someone with talent can do better.)

It can be a bit fiddly to set up properly though. If anyone tries it and needs help, just ask!

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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