Aco, I have fresh popcorn and drinks. Mind if I sit next to you?
Teresa, thank you once again for hosting AW's refugees. Thank you and everyone, too, for all the support you provided us during the last two weeks. I don't think any of you will ever realize quite how much that meant to AW's recovery.
~Lori
Thanks again for hosting our refugees, Teresa.
Cathy, I'd be interested in reading it. I'd also like to see your review of it.
First, the board is still down. It is not yet open.
What is happening is Jenna, Charlie, and Scott are attempting to escalate use in order to see when, or if, the board goes "boom." (Gotta love those technical terms, don't you?)
First, Jenna and Charlie logged in. The board was fine, so
The supermods were introduced to the mix. There were a couple of lags, but nothing major, so
The moderators have now been added (yes, if you are a moderator, you can now log in, check on your board, and try to break things.)
There have been a couple of minor issues with the mods in, so where we go from there, I don't know. The error messages were forwarded to Scott. I'll let you know when I know anything new.
On the plus side, all the data appears to be intact and the board is getting healthier all the time.
Please continue to be patient. We'll get everyone home soon. :)
~Lori
P.S. I meant to post last night. This morning, there's lots of technical talk going on. Mainly, Scott, Lisa, and Charlie are talking and Jenna and the supermods are listening and nodding at the appropriate times. We are closing in on both a short-term fix and a long-term solution.
At 11:15PM Eastern time, Jenna reopened the forums.
Approximately 400 users signed on.
It stayed open for 9 minutes then went down.
We're currently working on stabilizing things.
Look for more information some time tomorrow.
You were fishing around James? Seems to be that the direct and honest approach would have been to contact Jenna and ask the status of the database and download rather than posting in the comment section of a blog where the membership may or may not have accurate information about what is happening behind the scenes.
Also, based on your comment, I take it you intend to delete the data?
Please continue to stay away from AW. The database has been loaded, but it's slightly "ill" right now. As MacAllister said, "who could blame the poor thing after spending nine days stuck alone in the dark...."
Scott is running down the problem now. Keep your fingers crossed people.
I know everyone is very anxious to get back into AW. The data is being loaded now. Everyone can help us by not hitting refresh and not trying to log in, as all the attempts to peek in are slowing the technical processes down.
Before we reopen the forums, we have to check the data. We will let everyone know when we're back up.
Thanks much.
~Lori (who is just as excited and impatient as everyone else)
Cachers, if you recovered any of the threads or posts from the Barbara Bauer thread in B&BC, could you send just those threads to macallisterstone@yahoo.com? All other cached data should go to Cache.Project@gmail.com, but the Barbara Bauer threads need to go to MacAllister.
Thanks.
~Lori
I returned to posting comments in this entry because this is where James chose to reveal that we had been granted access to the data. I am wondering if I should return to commenting in the more recent post. While I continue to think out loud, here is the most recent update:
Good morning, AWers. Or good evening, as the case may be.
Just to let everyone know where we are right now: As of 2:30 AM Eastern time, our new host was going to overwrite everything on our account – don’t worry, Scott made a backup of the items we had already managed to rebuild – and install the recovered data. Our IT-person-Scott indicated that he felt there was a 50/50 chance that everything would be okay when the host installed it. Those odds made Jenna a little nervous, but I recognize a professional IT person not over-promising when I hear this. We do not know how long it will take the new host to install the data so we can verify its usability.
In other words, we’re back to hurry-up-and-wait, but for a different reason this time. We’ve only been granted access to the data for 24-hours, so the results of this install and the next few hours are crucial to us.
Keep your fingers crossed. I will let you know updates as I’m able.
You can always tell when you've hit your sleep wall, Mac. You go from fun-lovin' to just plain goofy.
James, we have been debating when to announce we might have the data back for the last couple of hours. As it is, we are still in the process of confirming its usability and status. As things stand now, that has not yet been confirmed.
Thank you for your patience.
Our technical needs have been met. Thanks so much to all those who volunteered.
Are you kidding? I'm not going anywhere near that gmail account. It frightens me.
(Seriously, I'll ask those who are getting their hands messy reviewing the data if they can forward them to you. What's your e-mail addy?)
Cachers, a quick change of plans, just send your files to, as is, to Cache.Project@gmail.com. Don't worry about renaming them.
Okay, Cachers, I finally have the guidelines you’ve been waiting for:
Rename each file with its Thread Name and page #. The preferred format is ThreadName_page#. (For example: Page 27 of the STLiterary thread should be named as STLiterary_27.htm or STLiterary_27.txt (depending whether you saved it as htm or txt originally.)
Send recovered files to Cache.Project@gmail.com.
Each page should be a separate file.
Do NOT compress or zip files.
You may attach more than one file per e-mail.
Do not delete the files from your system. We would like you to maintain your files until after we get the data loaded. One thing we’ve learned from this is you can never have too many back-ups.
Please do not e-mail any questions to the cache project’s e-mail address. That address is strictly to receive the files you have recovered. Please direct any questions to my attention at Lori@QuoinCommunications.net.
Thank you for all your efforts.
Xeger, I do not believe you will find where anyone with any authority at AW has condoned any hacking attempts or defacing of any online property owned by JC Hosting. Have these events occurred? I am not aware of them if they did. We also did not ask or encourage individuals to call or e-mail JC Hosting or their representatives. What we have said time and time again is that it is a legal matter and to please not to anything which might reflect poorly on Jenna, AW, or interfere with Jenna's legal efforts to recover the data which should have been returned to us as a matter of course.
The Cachers were asked to stop searching for data at midnight eastern time Wednesday evening. The questions that naturally followed were: What do you want us to do with it? Where can we send it?
I’m still in the process of clarifying the answers for you. Basically, what we’re going to ask you to do is name the files in a certain format, to make it easy for us to identify them, and then e-mail them to a specified gmail account. I should have those details for you soon.
If you want to continue searching the caches, you may, but as the eighth day of our exile from AW ends, we realize there is a point where we have to redirect our efforts from the recovery of data to the installation of the data that was recovered. We will never be able to find it all. I’ve already tapped a couple of people on the shoulder and asked if they would mind helping with the next phase of the project. In typical AWer fashion they answered, “Yes. What do you need?”
You people are simply amazing.
~Lori
I'm not always good at expressing my appreciation and affection for individuals, but I am just overwhelmed by the amount of support for AW. You guys are just... You're what keeps me believing that there is hope for the human race.
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