Re: Data lost from private scratchpad

[Corion]

Your scratchpads are subject to the 64k text limit. I think we have a warning displayed if you save your scratchpad and it is close to the 64k limit, but that warning might be restrited to wiki pages instead, where the problem is much more prevalent.

As for recovery, if you've appended new data at the end, it never reached the database, so it can't be recovered. If you prepended the new data, maybe the last week can be recovered but not more.

I'm sorry for your information loss :-(

[Athanasius]

Hello Corion,

I’m sure I didn’t get any warning message. :-(

I’m still not clear whether the 64k text limit applies to messages, scratchpads, and home node separately or all together. The reason I ask is that I’m not sure whether reducing the contents of, say, my messages folder or public scratchpad would alleviate the problem with my private scratchpad?

As for the new data: the only change I’ve made to my private scratchpad recently was to click on the “Add to private pad” link (at the bottom of my Personal Nodelet) for a single node I wanted to remember. But the data truncated from the scratchpad runs to (probably) more than a hundred lines — far more than I could have added.

So if the data can be recovered, that will be great! :-)

Thanks for your help,

[Co-Rion]

After looking through the backups, the scratchpad contents seem to have fallen prey to file corruption and were truncated. Unfortunately, our backups don't reach back far enough in time to make recovery possible.

I've recovered the data in the same database storage page which was not picked up by the database anymore but which was clearly at one time part of your private scratchpad.

Again, I'm sorry for not detecting the corruption and for the loss of your data, even if some of it could be recovered.

[Athanasius]

Hello Co-Rion,

Thanks for looking into this and recovering the majority of the missing data! And it’s good to know I didn’t exceed the data limit after all. :-)

Again, thanks very much,