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Help, I lost 150 links :(

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Help, I lost 150 links :(
Yesterday, when I did a build, I expected the count to finally hit 400. Oddly, it only hit 300+.

Right now it's at 339 yet I just added link 472.

Checking the categories, I am missing a ton of links I had already added in.

Where did they go?


Edit: Looking at links.db it goes from 291 to 422 ...... I've lost 130 links and can't retrieve those :(

(there was a corrupt entry that obliterated 130 links, which I've since deleted)


Somehow I've managed to combine 3 files -- 3 different links.db files to form one large one with all 472 links in it.


Please -- tell me it's possible to put this page into the script somehow and have it show up on my main page and in my admin area. Please


Also -- the links I added today are showing up but in the order I added them. Ordinarily when I add new links they show up in alphabetical order



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hairy: Dec 7, 2003, 1:05 PM
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Edit: Looking at links.db it goes from 291 to 422 ...... I've lost 130 links and can't retrieve those :(


Can you not restore it from a previous backup file? Look in your cgi-bin/links directory for the backup folder. ;)
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Thanks, I actually had to take 3 backups -- the one before the crash, during the crash, and after -- and combine them into one huge file.

Still not sure why it corrupted like that



I'd like to be alone in a room, and enjoy the company.