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My message just disappeared.
Firefox took over my computer. I saved four hours of webwork I had done with Windows and was feeling good because it looks professional.
It appeared on my desktop under the Firefox logo. Opened, its format is a sickening mess
Now I notice the main menu for my entire personal website--what is left of it, slowly being renewed, ALL under the Firefox logo AND i DID NOT EVEN GO NEAR IT, oN OPENING FILES i KNEW TO BE INTACT, THEY CANNOT BE OPENED.
wAS i YELLING?
I am facing a total reformat of my hard drive, loss of everything that is not backed up.
This computer is toast until a tech gets every last bit of Firefox OUT.
Don't even men tion that name to name again,
Like a blasted VIRUS! Other files are contiminated by now too, judging by two more files I did not save, but Firefox took over.
Irate.
Terry
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Neologism
contiminated : intimidated by cons?
There are gaps, but I hope no remnant damage to be seen later. Count on me, I won't hide it.
I have had this experience before, a computer full of Windows98 files, added Linux some years ago. I had been uploading the first eight chapters of a novel on my site, happy with the way all that dialogue looked on screen. Imagine my horror when at last I called up a chapter and found all the format gone, the text there wall to wall like broadloom.
It killed the novel. I never did finish it.
Another time, when the computer was new, I was sending a set of sortasonnets to Ecrivain for publishing, and had them sorted side by side on the page, looking good. When they arrived they looked rather like rope end on end down the left edge. He waited for another copy which was impossible to send. My chance to publish, pfffft.
This time it took my Mattaweb main menu, and will take so much time to redo all the internal links, chasing down lost images I will not bother. Who has time? The files are adrift, years of illustrated poetry...
My life of loss, yet another loss . . .
Oh well.
They call it a fresh start.
And if I get a narrow box I'll send a title and a few commas.
T
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Oh my goodness.. I had Firefox for a while, and didn't like it, so I never used it again... it didnt' take over, though. But, I never downloaded the google toolbar with it... that thing is death.
There are some on the sites that swear by Firefox and never had a single problem with it, but it could be another version. -
Taking stock
Those who had no trouble didn't have websites. I have a large domain, including sites belonging to other writers whose own are safe on their own computers. Every html file in my machine cannot be read as is. Many of them display as source-code which will save as new htm files, files not yet uploaded... I had a large set of poem pages being assembled for Kaleidoscope, poems from the recent past. Source codes only, .jpgs all set in place, can I even find them?...I get SO tired.
Everything already on the internet is safe there, but dead in my machine unless one by one I call up the individual files, and open each by IE, and save it again as an .htm file. How long will a few thousand files take to redo?
What I WILL do is to drop all these bent ones into a large major folder--so what did not get uploaded yet can still be found (mostly my AP Class, new pages I was working on.)
Then, I will set up fresh organized sets of folders, and DOWNLOAD FROM VIANET and heave huge sighs of thanks that websites are on two-way tracks! I did NOT lose all the AP course files that at first made me panic. I did, went NUTZ!
Tomorrow I will download!
It will still take hours. All those photos...
I think to have them work safely together, the hard drive has to be segregated, like two hard drives, first. Or even to have a separate external hard drive for it. So stupid not. I should have remembered.
If I had half a brain I'd be a halfwit.
Barbara, I had that google toolbar you mentioned prominently displayed on opening, and nothing else stayed on view with it. I got the full effect. I have never felt so awfully TIRED
Please do not believe it if they say both IE and Linux can be safely together. Firefox and its previous versions are the same, swiftly dominant.
All html files, every single one going back to 1985 are now Firefox files. Tutoring reports, all of them.
Ah well, tomorrow is another day. I hope it goes smoothly.
Terry -
I sent a message...
...from my old Linux computer but it is not displayed here. I'm trying again with Windows.
It took a while but all the corrupt files are in CD-RW sitting with my old Linux 'puter, displaying well. Fedora got quickly replaced by Firefox--automatically. I assumed my messages to SP and AP were sent but at least here, it did not show. Perhaps in AP too?
Briefly, my apologies for freaking out. I am not accustomed to tsunamis in my computer. I'll use Linux here and use Windows for web work and work with AP classes.
Mostly I just have to wrestle the "only" mouse from the kiddies...
Terry -
Sounds like the "Default" program to run when you double-click .htm files got reassigned - you can go into tools -> options and re-assign it, but it's a bit tricky.
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It turned out to be trickier than I could do. I had no "default program" that I could find. The entire hard drive was a foregn country, and to my chagrin even my web domain had been converted to new very unfamiliar code.
My hard drive had not been divided into two independent parts so Linux replaced Windows. Simple.
AS if I did not already have enough grief.
Finally a computer tech at the shop cleaned the garbage out and I was left with months of repairs to my websites, most of which remain unavailable to this day.
Now, Feb 7 08, I went to see the 8-chapters of the novel that I had reformatted into paragraphs again. I was using the desktop machine that had been only for firefox, AP/SP. Imagine my horror when just by READING chapter 1, Linux had replaced all formatting!! OUT!
I just went in with Windows now, and found chapters 2 to 6 are still legible. Question, will someone other than myself reformat chapter 2 by going there to read it with firefox?
If so. at that point, I protest!!!
I am locally (that is in the nearest city) looking for another web-editor that works equally well in both Linux and Windows, retaining the format of both. They'll probably think I'm nuts. Sometimes I agree.
Terry
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