ETA: On Sunday 11/4 afternoon, a blog reader named Julie emailed me that article that I thought was lost for good! She had saved it for inspiration as she is just starting Project Life herself. I am so very thankful for this great community. I had almost given up hope! Thank you, Julie, and thank you everyone for your kind and empathetic words. :)
I've learned a valuable lesson the last few days... if you write blog posts and articles for other websites that are not your own, you need to have copies of it yourself. I learned this the hard way after being notified on Saturday that My Scrapbook Art's online magazine, Home Is Where The Art Is, went down and is unrecoverable. I had written 3 quarterly articles on Project Life for them this year. Actually I had written a 4th one that was supposed to go live on November 1st. Now poof, it's gone. I made the mistake of only writing it in their site's wordpress online and not writing it in MS Word or Evernote on my computer first. Lesson learned!
I've learned a valuable lesson the last few days... if you write blog posts and articles for other websites that are not your own, you need to have copies of it yourself. I learned this the hard way after being notified on Saturday that My Scrapbook Art's online magazine, Home Is Where The Art Is, went down and is unrecoverable. I had written 3 quarterly articles on Project Life for them this year. Actually I had written a 4th one that was supposed to go live on November 1st. Now poof, it's gone. I made the mistake of only writing it in their site's wordpress online and not writing it in MS Word or Evernote on my computer first. Lesson learned!
Now here's where you can help. Thankfully a while ago, I had used Evernote to clip the first two articles I had written for them: Documenting the Everyday With Project Life, and Onwards With Project Life. I hope to republish those here on my own blog (where it is backed up on a monthly basis to my hard drive and has online backup) soon. However, I had NOT used Evernote to clip the article titled "Get Creative With Project Life", which used to be at this link: http://www.myscrapbookart.com/msamagazine/?p=6548
If you somehow have this article saved on your hard drive or to Evernote or something, could you please email it to me? You can use the "Email me" link on the upper left of my blog, under the "Connect" section. Thanks so much in advance if any of you have somehow saved it. If not, that article is lost. :(
I will be spending some time this weekend clipping some other articles I've written for other sites into my Evernote. I really don't want the hard work I've put into writing for other sites (most of the time for free) to just disappear like this. I think from now on I will be writing the articles on my hard drive first. AND also clipping them into Evernote immediately after they are published online at other sites. I'm bummed about it, to be honest!
Do you still have the original URL to the article you wrote? It's possible it might have gotten archived elsewhere on the web...
ReplyDeleteTry the Wayback Machine - http://archive.org/web/web.php
Or try searching Google's Cache... If you Google the URL, and hover over the search result, there's a >> to the right that opens up a menu where you can open up cached versions.
It might not bring up anything, but I'd give it a shot just in case.
Thanks so much for the tips! I had actually tried the Google cache and the Wayback Machine earlier today and both of those came up empty! I was going to try Warrick to recover it too, but they are not taking any new projects right now. I also tried searching my own internet browser cache and it was not in there either, since I use ccleaner on there pretty regularly.
DeleteMaybe try searching the URL on Pinterest and reaching out to anyone that might have pinned it (they may have also gone further to save to Evernote or something). Also if you had any photos with the article you might search with tineye to see if someone re-posted the article (which they aren't supposed to do, but still...)
ReplyDeleteThanks Julie for the tips about Pinterest and tineye.
DeleteOh what a bummer! Sorry I can't help out Christine but I really hope someone else can. Keeping my fingers & toes crossed for you ((hugs))
ReplyDeleteOh girl i am SO sorry this happened to you, what a nightmare!!!!
ReplyDeletehope someone has this for you
Christine- was the article written on their blog, and do you subscribe to their blog in Google Reader? If so, search Google Reader and it's probably there! Seriously! When Scrapbook Update had a server crash (and also a backup failure), we were able to restore tons of content because it was stored in Google Reader's cache- even stuff that was a year or more old.
ReplyDeleteHope you are able to find it in any case!
Hi Melissa - I actually thought of Google Reader because when I was with the Digi Dares, we were able to find our old posts on the website inside Google Reader. However, in this case it was a bummer because there was something wrong with MSA's RSS feed, so in my Google Reader it is missing all the posts from June-August this year, and that article happens to be from August!
DeleteThat is such a bummer. I'm sorry Christine. :(
ReplyDeleteCan you share how you have online backup for your blog?
This is an area I don't know anything about and would really appreciate some advice! I've googled for info before, but what I turn up is so technical it flies right over my head...
I save my blog's xml file by going into Blogger, then Settings, and then "Other" under that. Once you're there there's a "Export Blog" link on top. You click on that and save the XML file to your hard drive. My whole hard drive is backed up online to Crash Plan and also to an external hard drive. If you don't have online backup, I would suggesting making a copy of that XML file and save it to a Dropbox account.
DeleteThank you!
DeleteI'm so sorry to hear of your problem. I don't have any tips but I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteYou are LIST GIRL...how could this happen?! You keep lists of everything! heehee On a serious note, I'm sorry for your pain. I hope someone out there has it for you. Hugs
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the empathetic words everyone! I updated my post to say that one of my blog readers did save the article and emailed it to me! Such is the awesomeness of the blog community. :)
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