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spstieng: great response – actually, a little too great for me. could i get you to explain more of what you said, but in novice terms? im sniffing around search engines for some of the terms you used, but i need just a little more lead to set sail in the right direction i think.
you rock.

and thanks for the link Gangleri. im checking it out now, though it seems its posing the same problem to me.

hm. im also wondering if i can have users cross post among the different sections under a wordpress MU site (both posters and commenters using the same login for all blogs) which doesn’t appear to be possible under my current “new install for each section” setup.

greglins posts interesting questions as well. hope we get a know-it-all passing through this thread to set us straight.

I suppose this backup.sql file im seeing is useless?

just got off the phone with server support and they dont backup anything automatically so if the database is gone then its gone. and it seems like its gone…

clearly i dont understand wordpress’s full workings but your answers have all helped in one way or another.
i am confused as to what are in these folders if not my posts, but ill learn im sure. Fantastico had a backup, which i unzipped only to find the same folder lists that i myself had backed up. rats. =/

i did not backup the database and dont know how or what exactly that is. i only backed up the folder wordpress was installed in…

Gangleri- no, thats not the blog in question.
the blog was at richwatch.net/archives – but then i successfully moved it to the root, richwatch.net the same day of the nuclear problem.

Otto42 – i uninstalled it through fantastico thinking i was protected with my backed up folder. i will stop using automated uninstallers from now on. i was impulsive and had bad luck in the past asking for help so my newbie shame caused me to meddle with things i had no business doing =(

does it matter that i moved from the archives folder to the root? fantastico didnt recognize a WP installation after the move, so to uninstall i actually loaded the archives folder BACK with ftp and then uninstalled…

where can i find the database in cpanel to see if i nuked it or if its still there?

i use wsftp. the archives folder on my computer is all/only WP files. the wp-content, wp-admin, wp-includes and the rest. where is the database?