phpwiki-talk

[Phpwiki-talk] Please help!

[David H. <met...@fa...>]

I created a phpwiki last month, for a personal project.  I have many 
hours of work into this wiki.  After giving it a rest for a little 
while, I just checked back.  EVERYTHING is gone!  All my work, the 
entire wiki, has completely disappeared.  I was greeted with the Virgin 
wiki page again.  I don't know what happened, but my login still works. 
  Please, please, PLEASE tell me there is some way to restore my work. 
I was storing the wiki in a flatfile.

Any help would be appreciated, please get back soon!  Thanks.

-d

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Please help!

[David H. <met...@fa...>]

I have discovered the problem with the help of someone on IRC.  My /tmp 
directory was deleted.

I can't even describe the rage that I have at this news.  All my long 
hours of work were completely destroyed in one clean sweep.  I will 
never have it back, it is gone, and for no good reason.  I think I have 
never in my entire life heard of something as stupid as making /tmp the 
default data store for a program.  My disappointment in the phpwiki 
software is immeasurable.  I know now that because of todays experience 
I will never use phpwiki ever again.

I'm just so angry, I have to go do something else now.

-d

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Please help!

[Charles C. <ch...@ru...>]

On Fri, February 18, 2005 12:55, David Howland said:
> I have discovered the problem with the help of someone on IRC.  My /tmp
> directory was deleted.
>
> I can't even describe the rage that I have at this news.

from config/config-dist.ini:
; WARNING: leaving this as the default of '/tmp' will almost guarantee that
; you'll lose your wiki data at some stage.
DATABASE_DIRECTORY = /tmp

Go figure.

regards,
Charles

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Please help!

[Mitch A. <ma...@ma...>]

Hmmm,

critical data - no backups...

hey, I know, let's blame the programmers who donated all their time and 
effort - they must have made the mistake! Yea, that's it!

geez - grow up.. take responsibility

Mitch
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On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:09 PM, Charles Corrigan wrote:

> On Fri, February 18, 2005 12:55, David Howland said:
>> I have discovered the problem with the help of someone on IRC.  My 
>> /tmp
>> directory was deleted.
>>
>> I can't even describe the rage that I have at this news.
>
> from config/config-dist.ini:
> ; WARNING: leaving this as the default of '/tmp' will almost guarantee 
> that
> ; you'll lose your wiki data at some stage.
> DATABASE_DIRECTORY = /tmp
>
> Go figure.
>
> regards,
> Charles