a life's design

7.17.2012

7.16.2012

Blog On...

Thank you all so much for your patience, support, kindness, and encouraging comments and emails!

I have heard from a Google contributor and it wasn't good news.

When images are uploaded from our computers to our blogs, they are hosted on servers at picasaweb. Our personal computers are not servers, nor would we want everyone reaching into our computers to find the image files. When pictures are deleted from picasaweb, they cannot be recovered. We have asked Google why there is not a grace period in deleting images like there is at Blogger when you delete a blog, but there has never been any positive response. There was a warning message when you did this, but you may have overlooked it. Your only recourse, if you wish to restore the pictures to the blog, is to edit posts and upload them again. That sounds like a daunting task, and it could very well be, but I suggest you start with recent posts and upload to them, replacing the pictures in a few posts at a time.

With that answer, I will follow along with the cliche saying and "keep calm and carry on". :)

7.12.2012

Intermission...

Please excuse the black boxes with exclamation points.

Today I found out that all the images on my blog have been deleted and cannot be undone or restored.
4.5 years of blogging gone in a matter of minutes.

I joined google+ the other day and when I clicked on albums I thought it had imported photos from my computer. Little did I know that it was somehow linked to my blog {and Picasa} which apparently stores your images even though all my images are saved on my computer, not there. So I just deleted the albums, which deleted EVERY IMAGE EVER POSTED on the blog without notice, message, or warning.

I am so upset, hurt, mad, sad, pissed, disheartened and dumbfounded that this could and did happen.

I was able to reload the most recent posts but I do not know what to do about the other 1,003 post that are gone. If any one has any suggestions, please let me know.

*Update: Thanks for all your support and sweet comments. I save all my images to my computer and upload them from there, so the original source of the image is my computer. That is why I cannot understand how that happened. I hope this helps any other blogger, using any format, to be aware of what can happen. I hope it does not happen to anyone else.