I have a habit of starting posts and then leaving them in the Drafts folder for a rainy day. I have one such post on which I decided to do some work today - it's quite a detailed post and I wanted to get the information correct and then shorten it. I discovered that I had 71 posts in the draft folder. So I started looking to see what was there. Some went back almost to the start of the blog. I had a look at a few and they had all already been published. Then I got to one that hadn't. I read it and went back to the drafts, or so I thought. In fact it defaulted to the 'All'. I saw what I thought were duplicated posts still in draft and deleted them. Bye bye. They are gone for ever. And they were not drafts. So 'The Myna Bird' and 'I'm A Leg's Man' are no more. I can easily re-do the Myna Bird but the Legs post is more difficult because I can't really recall all that I said and I really really don't like re-doing things I've already worked on.
The family are coming for dinner. I shall go an sort things out - the Beef Stroganoff is in the slow cooker. I think I shall just pour myself a wine....or two.
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i can find the Myna Bird - took a screen shot for you just in case - but if I can, you can...
ReplyDeleteLegs is showing a brief outline on your timeline but has gone from google reader and cache - sadly.
Thanks Fiona. Now that the hiatus has calmed down I can look back and smile. Thanks for you help.
DeleteI have not been blogging for that long yet (3 years in March), but I have already learnt that sometimes the various features, buttons and options are anything but self-explaining or intuitive, and therefore, most of the time I am extremely careful before I confirm or click or delete anything on here... Sorry you have lost so many drafts, I am sure there were tons of truly interesting, entertaining and fascinating things in there!!
ReplyDeleteAs for the legs post, you were, among other things, talking about Dorothy Ward.
Thanks Meike. I was fortunate not to lose the drafts although many of them are old post which are no longer relevant. I have, however, found some interesting ones which I hope to post over the next while.
DeleteOooops. Been there. Frustrating in a bang hand against side of head type of way.
ReplyDeleteGo on though - imagine a new "I'm a legs man"! Sounds interesting - if the kind of post I will turn a wicked feminist eye over!
I need that Stroganoff recipe - going to dig the slow cooker out again...
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I'm sure that your 'wicked feminist eye' will soon tell me if I've erred and strayed from my way like a lost sheep. Stroganoff recipe in my head. Free to a good home.
DeleteA reminder to do backups before one does clear-outs, perhaps... I'm sorry you lost your posts. Totally agree on the "don't like re-doing things I've already worked on". I'd say let it be for a while and if you get inspired again on the same or similar topic, do a new post. Then it might not feel as much as just repeating what you know you already said.
ReplyDeleteI'd never have managed to re-do the post. I'm hopeless at recalling things like that. It's ok for you with your super memory.
DeleteCrikey GB, I'm beginning to get a bit of a complex here.
ReplyDeleteNota Bene wrote in his blog recently that it takes him about an hour to write a post, and you write about your drafts folder needing work, and I just rattle off mine in about ten minutes flat, usually about the nonsense I've been up to the day before.
Hmmm, I wonder if I might just be on the shallow side.
SP
PS Bon appetite,
I envy you, SP. As a former drafter of words which had to be unambiguous (or intentionally ambiguous) I have great difficulty in spontaneous writing.
Deleteor spontaneous writing!
DeleteOhh Nooo... I know that feeling. Lost a nearly-completed essay draft last year. 2,000+ words. Talk about blood sweat and tears.
ReplyDeleteThe difference is, Katherine, that yours matterd mine didn't.
DeleteWhat a bummer! Reminds me to go have a look (a careful look) to see if there are any Drafts lurking.
ReplyDeleteWere there?
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