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

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

On 6/14/07, Michael Gage <ga...@ma...> wrote:

Mike writes "The newer posts from the last 6 months don't have any
dates."  Actually if you look at the message itself, the posting date
does appear near the top, e.g.

user Michael Gage - WeBWorK in the Middle East  blueArrow
1/3/2007; 8:33:31 PM (reads: 126, responses: 0)

Arnie

> 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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> > Milne
> >
> > 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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