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Yahoo replied on the 16th. I don’t understand…. I know my files are there, but how do I get to them?

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Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Web Hosting.
You have installed several blogs in your Hosting account.
Blog databases are created with numbers in their name pertaining to the
sequence in which they were installed, ie blog, blog2, blog3, and so
on.
In your database directory we have found the blog, blog1 and blog3
databases.
In the weekly server backups from 2 weeks ago we found the blog2
database.
Because this is the blog databse that was missing from the sequence,
and because it is the only database we had in the backup which was not
already in your database directory, we have restored the blog2 database
to your database directory.
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

3 days and no word from Yahoo Web Hosting about what if anything they can do. To fill the URL with something I started a new blog at gayboythailand.com/bangkok-thailand/

This was up for a while, but then I get the following error message instead of the main page:

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Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at mysql. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.

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When I tried to use FTP to look I got “530 maximum number of simultanious sessions already active”.

I did change both as instructed… but one of them was in the Yahoo control panel, which supposedly should make it easier to change where the database pointed to.

“If” I get things back… I wish that was “when”…

I see that my blog occupy 163MB of data on my account. So the database must be there.

The 64MB that I took backup of (the blog folder) turned out to be my pop star picture collection, which is integrated in the blog via the “singapore” plug-in.

In the 40 hours since the crash the response from Yahoo consists of one email.

Yahoo Support say they have sent my email to the engineers since it involves restoring the database.

I see that mysql is set to delete erased content after one month. Until then what is erased is only marked “deleted”, but it can be recovered.

I don’t dare trying to do this myself. Better leave it to the specialists? Agreed?

I wrote Yahoo Hosting asking them if they can restore my WordPress database from backup.

If they can I expect I have to pay for it.

Thank you for the link to the MySQL link…

There are three databases in MySQL… blog, blog1 and blog3… They are Yahoo’s default names…I put “blog” to point to the URL with the same name… But where is my content? There were hundreds of posts… they are gone. All the databases are empty.

And the Yahoo control panel says size of database: 0 MB

I have a bad feeling about this.

Hi Moshu

I saw that MSN search had 2800 results for my blog, I assumed that was “files”.. or pages.. or something!

I changed the settings in the WordPress Control Panel for URI and the line below it from /blog to /bangkok (the blog went 404) and blank… and then changed the folder name in the Yahoo File Manager from /blog to /bangkok.. that was all I was supposed to do!

Oh and now I see version 2.0 and 2.01 use cashe but not 2.02… and I use 2.02 at Yahoo.

And now I don’t know which folder to point the database to… should I try them one after another? I THINK one named https://www.gayboythailand.com/bangkok2 is the right one… Is there any danger selecting the wrong blog folder?