Renovations

It seems that mblog has gone belly-up, so my old blog site is gone. Thankfully, I had exported all of my old posts to a file when I bought this domain. I keep running into a problem importing them, though. It will start importing the old entries, and will do 10, 20 or more of them and then it will suddenly give me an error message that says the mySQL database is gone. But of course it's not gone, it's still there. So I'm stumped by it. I have two choices. I can continue to import the files 10 or 20 at a time, then going back and editing the exported entries file to take out the ones that got added before the error message, then re-upload the file and start again...or I can just add them in one at a time manually. Either way, I will eventually move all of my old posts over to here. I've already started on that project and about 4 months worth is now here that wasn't before. I will also have to go back and edit those entries at some point to add paragraph tags. I'll get it done eventually, so don't fret. In the meantime, some of my newer readers may wanna go back and peruse some of the older posts.

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This appears to be a database problem, not an MT problem specifically. But I know nothing whatsoever about databases.

Hi Ed, I'll bet it's the buggy version of MT, 3.01D, that you're running. I'd upgrade to 3.11 if I were you. Lots of things magically fix themselves when you upgrade. The import bug that you describe may be one of those things. In any case, it will not hurt to upgrade.

Holy cow, I just downloaded the upgrade for MT and it looks more complicated than my initial install! And for some reason, my FTP program keeps wanting to create new directories rather than overwriting old ones. I'm gonna screw this up royally, I can tell. Can't I just pay one of you guys to do it for me? LOL