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not sureTopic: Website
Ever have one of those days when part of your website just up and disappears on you? Well, it happened to me last night. And I still can't get it fixed. Last night, I finished up the stats for April and posted them here on the blog. Then I was going to do a very simple task that I hadn't gotten around to doing yet, just add a link to a page. About a week ago I uploaded some photos and created a Girlschool photo page to link to the Girlschool tab page.
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/girlschool_photos
I hadn't added the link from the tab page yet, so I did that. And when I clicked to save the page...everything disappeared. The whole Girlschool tab page. Just gone. I had thought I was going to spend last night working on getting a tab into the computer, but instead I had to work on retrieving that page. At first I thought maybe I clicked on something by mistake and deleted the page. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
I had the coding saved to a flash drive, so I didn't have to totally re-do the page. It was outdated, though, the page has been added to and re-arranged since I saved that coding. So it took about half an hour to get the page back up to date. I clicked to save it again. Once again, it wouldn't save. Finally, I typed in a short message just noting that the page was down, and the problem was being worked on. Of course, that wouldn't save, either. 
Now at this point I don't want to work on any page, because I'm worried that when I click on the save button the whole page is going to disappear. The other pages are there and functioning, and I want to keep it that way. The next tab to be posted is going to be on the Canadian page, and as the most-viewed page on the site, I don't want to risk losing it, too. So I won't be posting that tab (or anything else) until I figure out what's going on. I'm going to save updated coding for all my pages just to make sure I have them backed up. Then I'll try to see if I can get the GS page up and running again.
Added later: I think this is showing evidence of being an Angelfire problem rather than my own computer, because I also tried uploading an image and it wouldn't work, and I went to check my site stats for yesterday, and they weren't there yet. I'll just have to wait until the problem is resolved. In the meantime, Girlschool tabs are still accessible by typing the URL below, with the song title you want, into your browser. This is the URL, using the tab of "Not For Sale" as an example:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/girlschooltab/notforsale.txt
Updated: Sunday, May 3, 2009 12:50 AM EDT
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