# I Messed Up !!!
**URL:** https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369
**Category:** Latest News
**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369 "2009-10-29T22:24:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Twin-X](https://forum.midibox.org/u/Twin-X)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/1 "2009-10-29T22:24:43Z")
Dear members,
Well it must have occured to you that i am trying to make a transition from the old forum to the new software.
So what happend this time?
The last thing i needed to fix were the redirects of the ld forum to the new one. A very nice redirect script was made by the guys from invision. However this did not work if the new forum was put under it’s old directory forum.
So i had to change it back. This happened tuesday.
On the admin page i was told to remove the conversion folder. However i uninstalled the application.
Fault no.1
The redirect script uses tables in the database that had a nice redirect indexing bla bla data in it.
I did not knew that until i looked at the error logs when trying a redirect.
So i had to restore those tables. Luckily i had a backup. (midibox is backupped every saturday 3gb uncompressed)
I placed the database backup to the midiboxwebsite.
Fault no.2
Instead of backing up the database before my change i dumped the backup from saturday to the forum.
Now i made the forum loose 5 days of data. :sad:
I feel absolutly terrible about this. I cannot fix this and it is not fixable.
I am ready for the consequences as i take full responsibility.
My apoligies,
Jeffry
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### Author:  [@nILS](https://forum.midibox.org/u/nILS)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/2 "2009-10-29T22:35:19Z")
MIDIbox has been around for 10 years, what are 5 days compared to that?
I am sure we’ll repost everything that was even remotely significant in no time :ike:
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### Author:  [@Gridracer](https://forum.midibox.org/u/Gridracer)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/3 "2009-10-29T23:24:12Z")
Head up!! 🙂
Regarding all the work and time you spend for all of us,
I think there is no need to feel sorry for anything!
Keep up your great work
Gridracer
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### Author:  [@flo](https://forum.midibox.org/u/flo)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/4 "2009-10-29T23:57:52Z")
Don’t worry about it! Sh\*t happens…
Keep up the good work!
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### Author:  [@philetaylor](https://forum.midibox.org/u/philetaylor)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/5 "2009-10-30T00:00:34Z")
Don’t worry about it Jeffry.
You have done a massive amount of work to make this forum great I think we can allow you this one.
I have done similar things in the past (in fact MUCH MUCH worse), I know that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you realise your mistake only too well.
In the early 90’s I deleted the live orders file for the countries largest wine and spirits wholesaler instead of the order archive, we lost a whole days orders and all orders had to be taken manually for about 2 days while it was rebuilt. For some reason they didn’t renew my contract, I never knew why…
Cheers
Phil
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### Author:  [@j00lz](https://forum.midibox.org/u/j00lz)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/6 "2009-10-30T01:02:03Z")
Ah well I guess that explains why I couldn’t find some stuff I recently posted… 👅
Don’t worry about it, it can all be replaced. No money was lost, and nobody got injured.
Now I’m off to see if Google archived those blog posts I made… 🥷
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### Author:  [@TheAncientOne](https://forum.midibox.org/u/TheAncientOne)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/7 "2009-10-30T01:17:11Z")
We’ve all pulled stunts like this: I once put the live EPROMS for a project in the eraser and the clean ones in the copier… it cost me a bit more than 5 days.
You do a tremendous amount keeping this forum on it’s feet. It was a minor error under stress, that’s all.
I think you are owed massive props for actually migrating the forum to a new format.
Best wishes
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### Author:  [@lylehaze](https://forum.midibox.org/u/lylehaze)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/8 "2009-10-30T01:54:17Z")
So.. all those horrible things I wish I had never posted..
Suddenly don’t exist anymore??
Dude, you ROCK!!
It’s all good. 🙂
LyleHaze
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### Author:  [@Wilba](https://forum.midibox.org/u/Wilba)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/9 "2009-10-30T03:59:41Z")
Don’t feel too bad about it, Twin-x… the only really important things lost were my incredibly interesting blog posts :bye:
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### Author:  [@boops](https://forum.midibox.org/u/boops)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.midibox.org/t/i-messed-up/13369/10 "2009-10-30T10:31:31Z")
Don’t worry about it . :console: