Saturday, July 30, 2011

Me vs. Blogger - I lose!

I just wanted to fix some spacing errors in my latest post.  Is that too much to ask?   I guess I should have left well enough alone.  Blogger has a habit of inserting extra spaces into my posts at random.  Usually I can open the "Edit HTML' tab and fix things, but in tonight's battle,  Blogger kicked my a**.  

Rather than removing the eroneous spaces, it removed the formatting for the first page of my blog.  Not the entire blog, mind you, just the first page.  Every attempt to recover the formatting just made matters worse.  I'll spare you all the ranting and cussing and fist-pounding - but I eventually had to reconstruct the entire post and delete the original, which means I lost all the comments. 

I know that seven of you had taken the time to leave me a thought, and I appreciate it.  I had read all the comments before they disappeared, and they were still in my reader, so I was able to re-post them under my own name.  It looks a little odd, but at least they're not gone completely.   Please don't think that I intentionally deleted you.  It's just that sometimes Blogger really sucks, bless it's heart!
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6 comments:

  1. RikkiJuly 31, 2011 at 6:19 AM

    Tami, maybe you should consider switching over to wordpress. I always recommend WP to everybody who has problems with Blogger (even though I am a Google fan).

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  2. Sheila (Bookjourney)July 31, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    Ugh.... too bad. I have never used blogger. I started on wordpress and have never felt the need to leave.

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  3. Debby@Just BreatheJuly 31, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    Your blog looks pretty. I have had issues for several months now. I do most of my post in HTML. I really have to play around with each post, they take me twice as long as they use to!
    I've learned a few trick. When I preview it and it look good I will pre-set the date and publish it. Then when I go back most of the things remain the same, especially in HTML and I had add and fix things.

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  4. (Diane) Bibliophile By the SeaAugust 1, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    Oh Tami, I feel your frustration. I try not to do ANYTHING new LOL. I can't seem to schedule posts any longer. They look scheduled but then they don't post at the appointed time.....sighhh

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  5. https://booksthoughtsadventures.comAugust 2, 2011 at 4:23 PM

    I totally agree with you about Blogger...I am so ready to switch...yesterday it would let my few commentors comment...so irritating...and it is all changed...the formatting... and settings...mine are all different...does Blogger call this an update?

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  6. AnonymousAugust 3, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    Wordpress kiks my ass when I have a post with more than two pictures! Sometimes I can fix it, but most of the time it remains a mess.

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