I occasionally check "My Stories" to see if anyone has been masochistic enough to read one or at least registered a hit or very rarely a new comment. I don't claim they have any literary value but obviously they have a sentimental value for me. I sometimes think of something that might improve what I wrote and today was one of those days.
However I was surprised to find that the text of each story that I checked had vanished. All the comments seem to have survived but the story itself has disappeared. Please, Admin people, can you restore them?
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Problem Resolved
Whatever the problem was, it has been resolved!
BCTS has this thing called a cache ...
... where the "computer parts" of the site store recently used stuff for faster access. (Kinda similar to your physical desktop - pens, notepad, phone all 'right there".)
And sometimes, it gets messed up. Analogy - the Cat and Dog play chase straight across your real desk.
There's nothing for the mess, nothing is where it belongs. So we have to put everything away, and start over.
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With computers, sometimes the only cure is to shut them down, and then restart everything (reboot).
So when BCTS has Just Plain Weird Problems - all stories have zero length, >everybody< is suddenly on my Ignore List, or we can't Post a new story, ...
We just let our Admins know, and give them a chance to Do Their Magic.
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PS: Don't panic - the Just Plain Weird problems are not our fault, and most likely, nothing is damaged or lost.
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PPS: And we do have our own stories (and other goodies) on own our (hard) drives, neatly organized, and doubly backed up, right?