avatar update: good news and bad

Smeagol · Post by **Smeagol** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:45 pm

i made a mistake, one of those unix mistakes that's really easy to make and that most people have made at least once (usually only once, because it sucks so hard to make it).

Nope, I've made it multiple times, mostly because I've not yet deleted something really important. My favorite trick is to go up the history and press enter on "rm * -r" instead of whatever command I meant select. I never learn...

But I bet you'll think real careful for a while.

Yay for getting some of them back.

Post by **sine nomine** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:28 pm

a couple of weeks ago, i used several tricky commands to move all files newer than a specific date to a subdirectory -- the idea was to make a tarball archive of the older files, move *it* to the directory with the newer files, then delete all the older files, move everything back from the subdirectory, and delete the subdirectory.

only when i got to the "delete all the older files" part, i somehow ended up typing "rm -r *".

(if you don't know unix: rm -r * means delete everything in this folder and every folder in it without exception and without asking me if i'm sure. if there were a similar command in windows and you did it in the c:\ folder, you would remove every file on that drive forever. isn't unix great?)

deb

angelalleya · Post by **angelalleya** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:36 pm

I'm one of the people who was using a public avatar that hasn't shown back up (or at least, not that I can see...). I've also noticed that a few other people who had ones from the angel galleries (that's where mine was from) seem to have lost theirs as well.

You said something about a database and maybe being able to track it down? I haven't changed mine, so is that at all possible still? I could make myself a new one or something, but that would just take too much effort

Totally understand, though. Can't even count the number of times I'vee screwed up like that. I almost deleted my school's yearbook the day before the deadline last year

. Thank god we managed to get it back.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:08 am

sometimes i see mine (costum) sometimes i dont. however i can send it back to twitter mouse if needed

CicatrizedLilAngle · Post by **CicatrizedLilAngle** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:37 am

aquana wrote:
CicatrizedLilAngle wrote:I couldn't find my nun! I looked all over, but didn't see her.

::cries::
I think it's in the fantasy_people folder, the first one. I think. O_o

Thank you! And to the other people who PMed me and let me know where she was.

Post by **sine nomine** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:08 am

there are some avatars that are there but aren't in the right case -- like instead of Green-Beauty.jpg it's in the directory as green-beauty.jpg. i'm putting that right tonight (and yeah, i know yours is okay, green beauty), so some stuff may reappear tonight.

deb

Post by **sine nomine** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:00 am

okay, i think i've renamed everything to be the right file names, so if you hit refresh and don't see your avatar, let me know. there are a few categories that i think have been entirely lost, like star wars and harry potter.

now my arms are tired.

deb

ps -- angle, i moved your avatar to reserved8 since no one else was using it and you seem quite attached.

Post by **Jomomma** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:03 am

<------------- Won't miss either of those

Smeagol · Post by **Smeagol** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:55 pm

sine nomine wrote: (if you don't know unix: rm -r * means delete everything in this folder and every folder in it without exception and without asking me if i'm sure. if there were a similar command in windows and you did it in the c:\ folder, you would remove every file on that drive forever. isn't unix great?)

deb

In the light of your experiences I've now defined a shell function "rmr" which I use instead of "rm -r *". It does two things:
1. Doesn't let me do a recursive delete in my home directory on ny of my partitions.
2. Asks me if I'm really sure I want to do a recursive delete in the current working directory.

So, not good for bus, but I at least am learning from your mistake.

Thanks for all your hard working restoring stuff, deb.

Gwylan

kcat · Post by **kcat** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:24 pm

My old one is gone, and every time I pick a new one, it still doesn't show up! I am doomed to be avatar-less.

Green Beauty · Post by **Green Beauty** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:55 pm

Thanks for all the lengths you have gone to, to try and correct the situation deb

Jia · Post by **Jia** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:33 pm

My avatar isn't back yet. Does that mean it won't be back? It was an angel of some kind (wings at elast) but I don't remember what gallery it was in.

Post by **sine nomine** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:49 pm

i'll make a separate post with a list of avatars that we've not regained and the people who were using them.

unfortunately, your av was in the faires_angels2 directory, and we haven't put that one together agian yet. you can pick another, or maybe do a google image search on medium-sized pictures of fairies (maybe, since that one was called sad fairy, searching on the terms sad and fairy?) and find one tha tyou can reserve as your own?

deb

Jia · Post by **Jia** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:45 pm

Thanks for answering so soon!

I'll look around a bit, see what I find. Thanks!

Post by **sine nomine** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:29 am

i've posted a separate list of all the avatars we haven't been able to restore yet (and may not ever be able to restore) along with the usernames of people who are using them.

deb

Kasie · Post by **Kasie** » Wed May 03, 2006 11:18 pm

Been meaning to change avatars for a bit now... this will just force me into action and get my butt into gear lol... Although... sort of liking the red cross... sort of symbolic atm I guess?!? Might keep red cross until I come up with something truly inspirational

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