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steviex wrote:@ 'kmc' .... Reregister... It looks like that stuff is gone .... kerz recommends reregistering.


Erh, thanks. Sad but true.

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Some of the threads seem to be coming back now.... You might be able to find yourself if you find a thread you have participated in, that has returned....
I'm sorry we can't get this resolved in a more satisfactory manner, but I think we'll have to make do with what we've got... :( Its a relief that the damage was not more extensive...
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I found the lost account of SKopischke, see the other thread
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 17#3100717
so perhaps there is hope for other mods/users...
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And here is lost profile of jasonb
http://forums.mozillazine.org/profile.p ... file&u=198
I am sure because of this thread with highlighted "jasonb"
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... ght=jasonb

this means: if people use the old search of MZ with her lost username in keywords (not author!), they can find own postings, if they are quoted. So the problem here is IMHO no data loss, but a broken index
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Wow, I have found some of my posts, I wonder if I will post a message to myself, and get an answer?
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Amsterdammer wrote:I found the lost account of SKopischke, see the other thread
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 17#3100717
so perhaps there is hope for other mods/users...


I must contradict myself
postings of the user lost moderator is a mixture of Skopischke and HarryWaldron with totally about 24.000 postings in this account( ==> find all posts...), please compare
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... ight=harry
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... rrywaldron
with
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... skopischke

both lost moderator

The good thing is that threads with postings of both are not broken :)
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Is there still any chance to have account recovered?
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^
I really don't know, and i don't know whether database or admin recovered lost accounts.
perhaps it will help when u know your user ID.
So the very known user np is recovered
http://forums.mozillazine.org/profile.p ... le&u=12271
==> find all posts..

And I do not believe in data loss, but data disappearing, I believe in broken index.
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Hi there,

my account also got lost.
What is your proposal? Should i reregister or will the data be eventually restored?
I would like my account back and not possibly stolen by another individual... :?
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Never mind... i just reregistered. :?
Bye, bye old account... :cry:
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UliBär wrote:Never mind... i just reregistered. :?


Not really, Ulli, I think your postings are gone or disappeared; here u are quoted
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 32#2198032

but I cannot find the source
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Amsterdammer wrote:Not really, Ulli, I think your postings are gone or disappeared; here u are quoted
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 32#2198032
but I cannot find the source
Yeah, it's the same with others, that got lost. The quotes from my posts survived, if the person, who quoted me also survived the db crash. Otherwise the posts from lost persons also got lost... :furious:
Well, shit happens - let's move on! 8-)
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Amsterdammer wrote:^
I really don't know, and i don't know whether database or admin recovered lost accounts.
perhaps it will help when u know your user ID.
So the very known user np is recovered
http://forums.mozillazine.org/profile.p ... le&u=12271
==> find all posts..

And I do not believe in data loss, but data disappearing, I believe in broken index.

Thanks for finding that. It's a relief knowing that 4 or so years of posts aren't gone. I'll wait out on using the old account until I hear the OK.
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UliBär wrote: The quotes from my posts survived, if the person, who quoted me also survived the db crash. Otherwise the posts from lost persons also got lost...
I see a couple of lost threads of those users reappearing, they don't show any OP name though. But, certainly reason for hope!
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Seamaiden wrote:My account also was deleted and I re-registered with the same username.

May I vote for a try to recover this account, perhaps manually in "old Seamaiden" like "old np"?

Seamaiden is admin of http://addonsmirror.net/ successor of http://extensionsmirror.nl/ of the known user sboulema.

some threads and all postings of seamaiden in "extension and themes"-forum disappeared, for instance
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=539635

see also: MZ search
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