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Blogspot user warning!!!! Blogs are disappearing!!

Posted by thelookout • 1/28/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

Arrrghhh! - all my Blogspot blogs have just disappeared from my dashboard and from the web!!! If you go over to the blogger help forum it seems like its happening to other people too groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-loginissues/topics?start=

Could be a virus?..

If you've got a Blogspot blog I suggest you back it up - there's a free tool that's apparently quite good, which I've never used (I wish I had now!) www.blogbackuponline.com/techrigy

Hopefully they'll all come back or I'll be starting from scratch
(backing up daily and on self hosted wordpress if I can afford all the domain names I want)

User Comments

1/28/08

ThriftShopRomantic

Blogger is supposed to be down for maintenance for ten minutes today.

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  Well I certainly hope that's all it is - they've been down for maintenance before and I've never had this happen though, normally when maintenance is going on you can still see your blogs you just can't do anything with them. Also, the other people that have been reporting this have been affected over the past few days so, unfortunately, it seems like its probably something else that's going on
  
  Fingers and toes are all crossed though
2. 1/28/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Well, fingers and toes crossed for sure. Thanks for the heads-up, regardless.
1/28/08

markstoneman

Is there perhaps a content issue going on? A violation of TOS?

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  Not as far as I know. Some of them only had 2 or 3 posts with links to popular mainstream sites. The others were all prety similar but with more posts. There was one celeb blog which some slightly risque pics but nothing nsfw but even if they thought that was too risque I would hope they wouldn't delete all my blogs just for that?!?
1/28/08

kevingoodman

I read google is erasing blogs from blogger that are abusing adsense - hopefully you didnt get confused.

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  Well I do use adsense so I guess that's a possibility, although some of the blogs weren't running any ads at all.
1/28/08

iriegal

They fixed the issue. On their homepage they stated they would be down for maintenance. They seem to be up and running.

hmmmmmmmmm....I "REALLY" am looking closer at wordpress

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1/28/08

dpasquella

Did you try to go into "edit post" and repost it again. Somehow it will refresh the entire blog. This happened to me once and I found that by doing this, it helped.

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  I would if I could but my blogs have been wiped out completely so I have no 'edit post' to click =(
1/28/08

thegnr

move to WordPress

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  I might just do that
2. 1/29/08
  
  Daldianus
  
  but you can't use ads on Wordpress, can you?
3. 1/31/08
  
  EelKat
  
  not only can you not use ads on wordpress, you can't link to sites that have things for sale on them either... they deleted my long running 4,000+ post blog because someone COMMENTED on my blog and left a link in the comment!
1/28/08

kevingoodman

Let us know when they come back!

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  'When' they come back - positive thinking, I like it
1/28/08

suburbqueen

Wow! Sorry to hear that. Hopefully it will come back fine!

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1. 1/28/08
  
  thelookout
  
  Thx - fingers are all crossed
1/28/08

kevingoodman

Well it can be nice to start all over - free from the past - you can redefine yourself!

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1/28/08

taylorblue

Holy cow....I would be how mad...

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1/28/08

friedclyde

blogger has a feature that allows every post you publish to be sent to your email, so do that it doubles up as a back up for every update you do

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1/28/08

gosmelltheflowers

Yikes - best get on Wordpress gang!

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1/28/08

mikeny07

Google has backups I am sure so if something gets erasesd they can restore it.

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1/29/08

guitarjockey

I got tired of blogger being down when I use to write a mac blog and so I switched to wordpress.com and now wordpress is all I use. I prefer it so much more definitely give it a try.

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1. 1/29/08
  
  markstoneman
  
  The problem for some will be Wordpress.com's severe restrictions on widgets and advertising.
1/29/08

Kowgirl

I have over 12 at blogger and I have never had a problem there.
I sure hope you get your blogs back so you can do a backup. Then
if it happens again you wont lose anything. I thought they (Google)
did backups with every post. Anyway, thanks for sharing the backup
website URL with us. I just signed up with them.
Best of luck

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1/29/08

mark11

I never found such condition but thanks for providing information about how to take back up of our blog.

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1/29/08

ThriftShopRomantic

Lookout, have you had any sort of resolution about your blogs?

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1/29/08

markstoneman

Another backup option is Wordpress.com. You can set up a blog that you never make public, and then import your Blogger blog, including comments. You can then even download a copy to your desktop computer. (Techfun told me about this a couple months back.)

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1/29/08

DaneMorgan

Blogger does this periodically and they've done it for years. And there are always some blogs deleted that make you scratch your head and there are always some left that make you scratch your head.

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1/29/08

crkian

Yes come to the Dark Side get wordpress

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1/29/08

shadowknight

Never used bogger, oops blogger, glad I didn't given the issues I am hearing about.

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1/29/08

kristilinauer

Is there an update? Did you get your blogs back?

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1/29/08

ThriftShopRomantic

I just tried to click through to his blogs from his BC profile, and all three still aren't connecting.

Wouldn't Blogger at least give you a heads up that your blogs were being shut down if it were intentional?

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1/29/08

friedclyde

the question is do you guys feel save with a third part duplicating your content with your permission! lol.........i just toka

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1/29/08

kevingoodman

I use blogger but wordpress looks alot more flexible - I started an account but I hate to loose my domain and etc. Thats almost like starting over.

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1/30/08

kevingoodman

did it come back? It's not smart to say bad things about google.

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1/30/08

VikramMadan

When blogspot goes down for maintenance, I cant see my blogs, but they always come back.

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1/30/08

ThriftShopRomantic

It's not back, though. I clicked through one of his links just now to see. It seems to be gone.

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1/30/08

kevingoodman

Note to self - never blog bad things about google

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1/30/08

ThriftShopRomantic

I'm not familiar with his content, just his posts here in the forums, so it could be some other angle we're not privy to.

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1/30/08

kevingoodman

Note to self - google is very powerful

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1/31/08

VikramMadan

hey your tech blog is back online!

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