Just a little while ago, I started going through my database tables. Most of them were ones I don’t use anymore (left over from old sites), so I deleted them.

Unfortunately, some of the ones I deleted were still in use—by my fanlistings no less. D: And because said fanlistings were trying to pull stuff from non-existent tables, I got a lovely SQL error (which I found out through a Troubles e-mail D: D:).

As soon as I figured out what the problem was, I started searching my hard-drive for the newest back-up I had on hand. I found one all right…from early 2007 (in fact, it was the only one I found?). D: Ummm…it was better than nothing so I used that. But because I had new people join my fanlistings after that, I wasn’t able to re-add their info. So looks like I’ll have to e-mail the staffers of the categories those fanlistings fall under and have the missing members rejoin.

Now if I had backed-up more frequently (maybe weekly or monthly), I could’ve just hunted down the file and imported that. But because I didn’t, I now have…who knows how many missing members.

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