Backing up my computer to an external drive is something I have to do. Thanks for the reminder!

Cheers!

Thanks for sharing your story. Yes, it isn’t always necessary to start over, if you’ve got the right back-ups! Hope it all stays good and stress free for you!

Cheers!

A few weeks ago i optimized my salespage and when i uploaded that it all turned chinese (ish). I thought it was the page so done the upload again, still chinese… I got onto my host and asked his advice. He told me to delete the page and upload it via my control panel, which i did and it corrected the problem. It was something in the FTP code that caused the problem, but thanks to some help from a techie guy i was saved.

If i had not had the help of others i would probably still be sat there in disbelieve.

Thanks for the plugin links, i’ll look into them now.

Regards, Barry

Yes – feeling as if you have lost everything can be frustrating even scary, especially when you do not consider yourself a techie, as I don’t. Happily, I’ve found that backing stuff up regularly (I have set the plug-in to do it automatically for me once a week), makes restoring stuff a whole lot less daunting. And once you’re confident about restoring things, you don’t need to keep reinventing the wheel!

I’m glad it all worked out well for you – happy if I’ve helped!

I wish I had seen this post before then cos I might not have panicked and deleted everything.:-)

I only had a few posts and pages so I wasn’t too bothered after the initial shock.

I just started all over again.

But had I had more on my blog I think I would have cried.

Thanks for the backup links.

All the best
Gert.