Saturday, October 8, 2011

Skippy Says: Eeeek (Help A Skippy Out)

Update: Eeeeeeek! And this time, the good kind of eeeeeeek! My brilliant husband found a way to fix the problem and restore the comments! I lost several comments that were made in the interim between losing all my comments and restoring them, but got many more back so I'll count this as a win. Thanks to everyone that commented wishing me luck!!

Oh, how I wish this were the good kind of eeeeeek. Unfortunately, this is the bad kind.


The very bad kind.

Ryan and I were messing around with the blogger template earlier, and somehow managed to lose all the comments from all my previous posts. I know, I'm talented. And heartbroken. I still have no idea why this happened-- we did not uninstall disqus but somehow it got lost. We've tried the whole importing/exporting comments thing on disqus but that didn't work, and all the google advice for getting comments back seems to be focused on when you're changing your system from blogger comments to disqus and lose your comments that way, but that's not my problem since what I've lost are all the disqus comments. I can see them all when I log into disqus, but they're not showing up below each post. Anyone ever faced this problem before? Help? Advice?

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Posted by skippysays at 10:46 PM
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14 comments:

  1. SayakaOctober 9, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    Oh no!! I'm sorry to hear that. I had a hard time installing Disqus and when I finally did I lost all my old comments...but Jenn from Complex Cardigans told me to go to Disqus and

    >admin
    >tools
    >import/export

    and I was able to retrieve all the previous comments in a few days.
    I guess some of the templates are incompatible with Disqus so I had to change the font of my title and I was able to import Disqus. I hope you can find a way to retrieve your comments!!!

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  2. SkippySaysOctober 9, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    Got them back- than you so much Sayaka!!!

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  3. SayakaOctober 9, 2011 at 6:56 PM

    Yay!! That's awesome!!

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  4. SkippySaysOctober 9, 2011 at 7:06 PM

    Thank you!!!! I'm thrilled :)

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  5. Stephanie HoangOctober 9, 2011 at 8:42 PM

    yikes! i wish i could help you but i'm SOOOOOO html stupid. I need help myself >.<

    Linconnuedeindochine.blogspot.com

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  6. SkippySaysOctober 9, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    Aww, thank you, but it's mostly all fixed! Just a few comments that are lost now, and while I'm sad to have those gone it's way better than the hundreds I lost before. If you are having problems, try emailing Disqus for help- that's what I did!

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  7. KatherineOctober 9, 2011 at 9:51 PM

    Aww so sorry about that! Is it cause of Disqus? Hope it works out...

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  8. SkippySaysOctober 9, 2011 at 10:03 PM

    Thanks- pretty much got it worked out! See edit up top :)

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  9. thoughts of papsOctober 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM

    oh so sorry to hear that. Hope you find a way to recover all.
    www.thoughtsofpaps.com

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  10. Elle SeesOctober 10, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    i've heard that happens with disqus. i'm too freaked out to use it!

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  11. SkippySaysOctober 10, 2011 at 8:04 AM

    I did (well, my husband did)- see edit above. tank you for your well wishes!!

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  12. SkippySaysOctober 10, 2011 at 8:04 AM

    I've really loved it actually minus this little hiccup. And now I've gotten the comments back so it's all good :)

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  13. Ly ZhangOctober 10, 2011 at 8:25 AM

    Oh no!! I hope you figure it out soon. I try not to mess with coding too much it gives me a headache. Good thing I have a engineer bf hahaha.

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  14. SkippySaysOctober 10, 2011 at 10:13 AM

    Thanks- it's pretty much all fixed! See edit above :)

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