Since our home web server died in March, I came back here to do my blogging. But I didn’t have a backup for the blogs I did from January which was the time I renewed my interest in blogging using the iPad. I spent a lot of time working with the Editorial app and worked out all the problems for photo uploads and everything was in super shape for me to blog easily. It was a fantastic work flow. I took pictures on my iPhone, and the photo stream automatically sync them to my iPad, I then used the Editorial app to upload the photos, grabbed the link and inserted it into a blog entry for me to add text to. Then another button in Editorial publish it on my site.
But poof, everything was gone when the server died. I have the photos directory but the MYSQL database was never backed up and all the entries were gone. I found out though that because I used the wordpress app on my iPhone to blog sometimes and it did sync with my site and have all the entries since January. I looked everywhere to see if I could easily move the entries to here at wordpress.com. But I found nothing.
Today, I finally bit the bullet and manually copied and pasted the entries one by one using the iPhone. Then I re-uploaded all the pictures and linked to the entries. Now everything I had is here. It took a few hours. But at least It’s done finally. Had to find a few pictures on iPhoto and re-exported them. Learned the lesson to have backups!!
Now I can try to see if I can use the Editorial on the iPad again to blog. I really like that workflow and it was the reason that I was blogging so much in January. Probably will help renew my enthusiasm if I can go back to the process again. Let’s find out.