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All My Deleted Games Gone.

Posted by TheRedFear
TheRedFear
member, 46 posts
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 05:58
  • msg #1

All My Deleted Games Gone



Apologies if this isn't the right forum but it's the only one I thought sort of fit my problem.

 I had a bunch of games in my "Deleted Games" list. Some old favorites I still liked going back and rereading from time to time.

 About two weeks ago all but one of them just vanished and I can't find them using game search. Is this normal? Is it a bug? A glitch? Is there any way to get them to reappear?


I thought maybe it was some sort of data purge done intentionally by the mods, but then why all but one?
steelsmiter
member, 1505 posts
GURPS, BESM, Fate, Indies
NO FREEFORM! NO d20!
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 06:11
  • msg #2

Re: All My Deleted Games Gone

TheRedFear:
I thought maybe it was some sort of data purge done intentionally by the mods, but then why all but one?

Not a mod, but the answer is most likely a comparison between the length of the remaining game and how long it's been marked for deletion. I'd hazard that longer games are more likely to be kept on hand because there's higher odds of them being resurrected.
TheRedFear
member, 47 posts
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 06:14
  • msg #3

Re: All My Deleted Games Gone

So they were permanently deleted then?

The one that survived was sort of "middle of the road" in terms of how long it had been around. Not one of my oldest, by definitely not newest. Only had a hundred or so posts in it before it fizzled and got deleted.

Ah well. Kinda bummed I can't access any of those old games anymore. Thanks for the info though :)
steelsmiter
member, 1506 posts
GURPS, BESM, Fate, Indies
NO FREEFORM! NO d20!
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 06:28
  • msg #4

Re: All My Deleted Games Gone

Not so much information as it is experiential speculation.
Skald
moderator, 668 posts
Whatever it is,
I'm against it
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 14:10
  • msg #5

Re: All My Deleted Games Gone

Yes, the clean up scripts were run recently which would have seen a lot of deleted games removed ... see this thread for further info: link to a message in this forum

Note that RPoL is here for active games ... if a game is inactive, or has been manually deleted by the GM, it will eventually be purged from the server when we run the scripts.

Fun as it is for all of us to read over our old threads, we need to download and store them safely ourselves somewhere off site, otherwise sooner or later they will be gone.  Luckily jase thought of everything, and if you open up a thread there's a handy D/L link on the header bar that does all the hard work for us.  :>
ShadoPrism
member, 883 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 16:29
  • msg #6

Re: All My Deleted Games Gone

I personally save all my old games (archive) to my computer via the 'show all' tab and Save Page (under File). Makes an HTML copy of the pages, that way I have them forever (external hard drive backup helps with this to).
Jhaelan
member, 119 posts
Prefers roles to rolls
Based in UTC+1
Wed 9 Dec 2015
at 19:51
  • msg #7

Re: All My Deleted Games Gone

It looks like the Download link fails for Adult games deleted prior to the introduction of the new auto-age-check (because you cannot modify a deleted game, according to the error message).

Not a big hassle, but figured it was worth reporting
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