Machine Crash :(

[mcp]

Is there anyway to retreive my website (and others that I have built) from the web? I hae had my computer crash with all the websites i have built on and the snapshots I have are old. Is there anyway to get these back from the web? Lesson learnt - backups are essential. Would appreciate any advice. Thank you

[Duncan Rounding]

Short answer is no I'm afraid. You can only download the images and cut and paste the text from the web. I think you will have to revert to the old snapshots.

Use an FTP client to download everything from the server, that will give you the images, css and text etc. Then unfortunately it will be quite a bit of work to get back to where you are.

As you say lesson learnt.

[Mike Hughes]

Get another PC and install the original hard disk into a caddy.

Just because the PC won't Boot into windows doesn't mean the files can't be read.

Mike

[Paul Bulpit]

Get another PC and install the original hard disk into a caddy.

Just because the PC won't Boot into windows doesn't mean the files can't be read.

I fully concur but it is a little more complicated that that Mike!

But nothing a mere layman cannot find out about very easily.

[jont]

I fully concur but it is a little more complicated that that Mike!

But nothing a mere layman cannot find out about very easily.

... or a visit to your local PC shop.

[Mike Hughes]

I fully concur but it is a little more complicated that that Mike!

It all depends on what the problem is. If it's just corruption of the windows system files that's stopping the PC from booting up / loading windows (or a hardware failure) then the data files can be sitting there as normal.

I wouldn't go anywhere near a computer shop* or recovery software without first trying to read the files from a caddy on another PC.

Mike

* Other than to buy a HD caddy / external adapter and/or new PC.

[Big Game Hunter]

hi Allisan

We had a machine crash a few years ago where we lost everything. Why not download your entire htdocs folder, then merge those files with a new license site within actinic, that way it will get the necessary perl scripts it's missing. Close and reboot actinic and you should have a 90% recovery of the website. Give it a try and let us know. That's all that we did.

Shannon