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April 29, 2004
When Gremlins Attack
Yesterday I had a bit of a scare when I tried posting a photo blog entry to my site and ended up crashing the blog's homepage. So if you came to my site yesterday, instead of seeing my blog entries you would have seen a lot of white space. I was at a complete loss as to what caused the problem: I tried rebuilding the site, reloading default templates, etc, but had no luck. No one on the Movable Type discussion forum seemed to have any suggestions either.
Finally, in an act of desperation I decided to start from scratch and create a whole new blog. It was much easier than it sounds, trust me. I simply exported all 200+ blog entries from my site into an archive, set up a basic blog using the Movable Type Web interface, then imported all of my entries into the new site. All of this is pretty much automated, so I just had to sit back and wait for it to do its thing. I then plugged in the template I'd been using for my original site - the template specifies what the layout of the page looks like - then made sure I had all my site preferences the same as before. Amazingly, the site worked like a charm -- no more uncomfortable white space.
So what I expected to be a weekend of toil and grief turned out to be 20 minutes of cutting, pasting and clicking. Of course, for those of you who didn't visit my blog yesterday, you probably can't tell the difference -- let's just hope it stays that way.... -ac
Posted by acarvin at April 29, 2004 9:12 AM
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