July 13, 2006

Oh, those pesky bugs!

Well, I have finally managed to resolve my issue with the Revolvoblog template. It took some doing to get an answer, but one finally arrived this afternoon--

Hi Terry,

Thanks for writing in. We're afraid you've fallen victim to a bug in our system which occasionally loses template data. Your posts are still safe, but unfortunately we were not able to recover your template for you. The manner in which you retrieved your (partial) template is preventing new posts from publishing. To use one of our default templates, you can click the Pick New link on the Template tab. This will let you publish your blog again while you recreate your old template. We apologize for the inconvenience and we are working on getting this problem fixed. However, it is always a good idea to save your own copy of a template if you make extensive customizations.

Sincerely,
Danish
The Blogger Team

OOpsie-daisy! Thank goodness for Google Cache is all I have to say, because again, since I didn't previously see the need for keeping a copy of my template, it was the only thing that kept my information together, even if it did mess up new posting when I pasted it back in. Seems as though it should be simple for Blogger to have a similiar feature as a backup, seeing as how they ARE owned by Google. And I really have to wonder why this particularly loathsome bug can't be eradicated.

IN any event, I have now fixed the thing as detailed above, pasted in my old links and such, copied the template and saved it to a safe place, and given Chet the E-mail Boy the key, and now all is once again right with the world.

More or less. I still have to fix the font. If I dare.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at July 13, 2006 01:30 PM
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