January 7, 2007
Back online
We were offline (or at least not posting to the site) for the last few weeks. Not to mention on and off for the last month or so before that. Something was wrong with our database and we kept getting errors when trying to rebuild the pages and adding new entries.
I checked a variety of possible problems, and after being totally stumped we decided to start fresh, delete the old site and upgrade our version of Movable Type from 2.64 to 3.3 (a decision we have been putting off for a few years now).
I backed up the database, downloaded copies of all the template files and made copies of everything so at the very least and worst case scenario we could manually rebuild the site after we were done with the process (if importing entries didn't work). Right before I zapped the database and started fresh, I checked the site one last time.
It was working. Fine. With no problems whatsoever.
I don't know what happened or changed or whatever but I was glad for it. The last time this happened, we ended up losing a lot of entries that I am still chipping away at putting back in after 4 years of carrying these files around with me in whatever email system I happen to be using at the time.
I upgraded it without issue and now we are happily using v3.3. Now I just need to figure out all the bells and whistles on this version. :)
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