Abandon Ship!

11 years ago

Poor wonderful Gardenweb. :( I want my lists back! They had plenty of time to post a sticky, saying please save your lists elsewhere, they may not transfer well to the new site, but they didn't do that. What a great loss, every ones work, typing lists, and updating and trying to correspond. So, sad, it was so fabulous just the way it was. What a useless site now. I'm making a new seed database site, where people can trade, if anyone is interested. I can put a forum on it just for trading, but that won't make up for the massive amount of lost info, that was on Gardenweb.

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SusanC

11 years ago

In another thread, someone said that Tamara told them the trade lists will be back soon.

However, it's always a good thing to have a backup copy of your list, and you can still create one,

Go to Google and search on seedtraderyandex "exchange page" "gardenweb

In the search results, you will see the description of your exchange page, seedtraderyandex's GardenWeb Exchange Page, and underneath that , the link to your old page, members.gardenweb.com/members/exch/seedtraderyandex, with a downward pointing arrow next to it.

Click on the arrow, and you will see the word 'Cached'. Click on Cached and you will be presented with a copy of your page as it appeared on Jan. 24 when Google last crawled your page and stored it in memory. (You'll have to scroll down to see it.)

You can now cut and paste your page contents to a word document and save a backup of your list. Any hyperlinks you may have added to your page won't be in the copy, but all of your text will be.

Google's memory cache gets refreshed each time it crawls a site, so it's a good idea to take advantage of this soon.

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Wood Sprite Gardens
Original Author
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I got it!!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

You saved my sunken ship!

I wish I had some treasure to give you, but I don't I don't think.
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SusanC
11 years ago
Happy to have helped and happy that you were able to make a copy of your list! -No need to send me a treasure; just pay it forward sometime (-:

best,

Susan
EricaBraun
11 years ago
SusanC -- Thank you for the fantastic info! That was a life saver!
haremail Zone 6a
11 years ago
I can't get my list but I can recreate it. But this new site is terrible! It's not bad enough there are no good gardening shows/channels on tv now home stuff is overtaking our websites too :(

All I really care about is the exchanges but now that's gone. Does anyone know of any other site/group that does this? I'm more interested in flowers and Perrenials but any seed trading place would be good!

Gardenweb was so great for so long. I'm very disappointed.

Jamie
duane456
11 years ago
wasn't able to retrieve mine. very sad ;(
duane456
11 years ago
I did get it. Thank you Susan !!
Emily Hurley
11 years ago
Hi All, we actually have your trade lists saved and are working on a way to make them available again. Apologies for not having it ready to go on day one, but it will be returning. Thanks for your patience!