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I am totally demoralized.
You recall, the brief visit of Firefox on my computer quickly converted every .htm file to useless firefox code. (It does not support web formatting.)
I went to download the Class website that supports my Allpoetry course. Imagine my shock when the FTP software revealed EVERY file in my DOMAIN had been changed to Firefox code.
* * * * * E V E R Y T H I N G * * * * *
That software had been deleted from my computer entirely. Windows is all I have.
There is no excuse to have it infest that software too.
Kevin, have you any help for me?
I put in a call to my web host but of course on a holiday weekend I am stuck.
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And WORSE yet
I composed a new introduction for the AP course,
a web page, IN WINDOWS, and after saving,
found it had been saved as a Firefox flle.
Terry -
It's over! WHEW!
My computer's back. Not sure how much I lost, probably all web work I did in the past two weeks. I don't care. Firefox is GONE. It's over.
I was about to abandon websites. Dreadful thought.
Unable to download, so many years of work would have been like trying to reassemble life from remains after an explosion.
Continued a while later.
Things are looking better, and I have recovered from my whine-fest. It is great to be web-composing without fear that the 'perfect' version on screen would display after saving as lopsided gibberish! Firefox definitely hated my Windows software (windows98 era) while XP accepts most of it. Source codes are so simple and easy... like the mimeo-page of codes I started with long before software came to automate it-- open, straight-forward, predictable. If it has goofs, I know they are my own, easy to fix.
A word for Kevin, although it was iffy for a while, my sense of relief now is wonderful! It did not take him long to fix it-- just reset to be as it had been before the FFFfiles attacked me. Clean!
All is well.
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But not entirely
Students cannot call up the next level in the AP course, and when I tried, I cannot, either.
I see no error.
Since this had not happened before, I am assuming it is related to Firefox. I have a call in to my web host, and hope they can help without total loss when the tech returns from the holiday week-end.
Meanwhile we wait.
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I haven't heard anything about this, but I'll chack in to it. If no one can call up the next level, then it might be a site glitch.
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Html source codes revealed
...a weird line added to the start of each address, tying it to my computer. I'm almost finished but will try to find an example. I certainly had done nothing differently.
Will add to this.
There were 8 x 8 addresses to link all pages to each other--handy for reference purposes. That's 64 X 16
because units 7 and 8 needed two pages each, and each page has a complete set.
All of them could be accessed from other computers but now the source-code had changed to one long line
without a break:
href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Main/Desktop/mattaweb.ca/web2006/Grefs7-07-ABCD.htm">
Closed, in effect, going nowhere.
NOT what I had pasted in from
http://www.mattaweb.ca/web2006/GrefStart.htm
I have been glad that my software circa '96 has such simple source codes. (PS, it is '95 and seems to have bit the big one.)
Oh well. Time.
Terry
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It's OVER, really ??
All links work. [But there is still a bug in there. Blah again. They erode causing hours of repairs.]
I am death warmed over, but it's done, most of it with ancient source code, and pasting. FTP, here I come ! -
As always, Edited
The narrow box is still mine unless I use Firefox,
and Firefox kills my Windows-based web sites, making them impossible to use in case "the obvious" becomes evident. No great loss for anyone here.
Reply box was three digits wide last time. It makes for laconic messages, because I don't go there.
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Alone with WindowsXP?
Since no one else is blessed with tiny boxes, and no one else suffers system-wide disasters on a collision with Firefox, I have to assume I am the only one driving a Windows machine. (Written in a commercial break on Formula 1.)
Am I right?
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I have XP, with IE7....I don't use firefox(have it, but don't like it) But, Windows is notorious for not liking other programs so it could be anything making it messed up.
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Thanks Barbara, it is good not to be alone here.
Do you by any chance have a dual hard drive? They would have to be separate all the way or like on mine when they mix, Firefox turns cannibal!
The kiddies are going to be unhappy when I reclaim my old Linux 'Puter (with Fedora) away for catching up on stuff I can't access with Windows. No more ,,, narrow reply boxes. At that point, I'll probably download Firefox to it, updating it. Mixed feelings. It will be in a different room.
That way I use this one mostly for e-mail, AP Class, Website maintenance and development, and until the summer is gone, repair of a thousand web links. --give or take a few.
Resigned to it now. Thanks Barbara.
Terry
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