Blogger exporting draft now

Just created a new blog to combined the Ratology Reloaded public blog and the Ratology at Heal private blog.

I was sort of worried about the drafts since they were not exported back a few months ago.

Yes, thank God, blogger has it corrected and, now, when you export your blog, the drafts are also exported and can be imported into the new blog.

Dead Fantom back to life

I had thought that my Fantom drive was mostly dead because it simply made the clicking sound of death-- not wanting to wake up.

Then, before I came back to Taiwan, a friend of mine found out that it was the enclosure that went bad.

Today, I got a new enclosure for the drive and-- the drive is no longer naked and is back alive!

Miracle!

The enclosure I got was made by Philips.  The whole process was simple and straightforward. 

There was only a minor glitch... the first time I plugged it in to the laptop running Windows 7, I was shown an installation failure error message.  So I turned the drive off and plug it in to another USB slot.  This time, it took a minute or two getting things set up and has been working perfectly since... (So far so good)

Interestingly, it seems like enclosures of this brand are not sold in the US.  At least I can't find it on the web.

The moral of the lesson, though God forbids, next time your external drive does the same thing, check and see whether it is the problem of the enclosure before sentence the hard drive to... adios. 

One more thing I learned was-- the 3.5 enclosure could actually be cheaper in the US while the 2.5 could be cheaper in Taiwan. $$$$$

Update: Drafts still not exported by Blogger

It's been almost a week since I found out that draft posts (unpublished posts) are not exported by blogger.

I looked all over the places.  Some other people reported it but the only responses they received so far... well... the respondents such as me also have similar problems.

Regardless, since there is no other way to contact blogger and backing up the drafts, all that I can do is to practice the KISS principle-- copy the drafts (e.g., title, texts, time) one by one and paste them to a private blog... publish them so that I can have them texts backed up.

If I keep it going for a month and at the pace of 10 drafts a day, I guess I will be able to get all things backed up in my Ratology Reloaded blog in one month.

Come to think about it... ain't it a bit stupid. 8-X