Re: [WWdevel] maa webwork site? -- archived forum posts have bad dates.

[Michael G. <ga...@ma...>]

I agree.  There is some hope that we can recover this eventually  
since I believe it is a one time
data loss caused by the move.  The posts in the archive forum still  
have the date preserved on the internal
data.  The newer posts from the last 6 months don't have any dates.

As I said I'm still saving all of the original forums -- it may be  
that we'll need direct access to the mysql database
on the maa machine in order to transfer the posts over with data.   
Except for the archived posts there are only a few hundred entries so  
it could be done somewhat manually.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Take care,

Mike

On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:07 AM, P. Gavin LaRose wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I was mainly interested that the site seems to have lost all date
> information from posts since the site moved to the MAA.  If they did a
> restore from a backup that wiped out all of the old information that's
> understandable, but it's also really annoying---if I can't tell if  
> a forum
> post was from 2000 or 2007 it makes it hard to tell if it's useful  
> or not.
>
> Gavin
>
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> On 2007-06-14 [09:03] Michael Gage wrote:
>
>> Hi Gavin,
>>
>> I'm not sure that it can be for the old messages.  It appears that  
>> there is
>> data loss when transferring the forums around.
>>
>> I still have the original forums saved (including the ones from  
>> webhost) --
>> however we'll need to figure out a way to transfer the information  
>> in such a
>> way that it preserves dates.  Backup and restore in moodle -- the  
>> usual way
>> to transfer module data from one course to another does not  
>> preserve dates --
>> this must be a bug but I don't see it mentioned in the moodle forums.
>>
>> The dates on the archived messages will not be accurate in any  
>> case since
>> they were re-entered by Arnie.  I still have the original data on  
>> webhost if
>> someone can come up with a better transfer method.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Mike
>
>
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