punctuation problems?

Post by **markskor** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:16 am

Interesting that now much of the punctuation (in many of my stories anyway) has been replaced by a "?". Hope that this is only temporary.

ERIC · Post by **ERIC** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:48 am

That's strange... I'll have a look.

Post by **markskor** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:39 pm

Eric,
Good work Kemo Sabe....Much better...instead of "?"s, now square boxes.
LOL...something is amiss somewhere. Might be that I "copied and pasted" my stories from Word.
I know it is in the software someplace...thanks for trying...know you are very busy.
Should I edit all and re-paste?
Mark

ERIC · Post by **ERIC** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:58 pm

Hi, Mark,

I made an update trying to fix your issue. Guess it didn't quite fix it. I'm still looking into it, to see if there is anything more I can do. Not sure if there is a simple solution, though. If it's not too much trouble, could you edit the punctuation errors? If not, I will be happy to go in and do it myself. Just provide me with links to the threads with the errors and I'll make sure the changes are made before the end of the week.

Cheers,

Post by **markskor** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:37 pm

Eric,
Thanks, but...
Without counting or checking all my stories, from what I can readily see on my end, the problems number in the 100's...maybe 1000's. Each ellipse (...), commas, dashes...all punctuation marks, except periods are now corrupt.
It will be much easier for me to just delete them all and... (re-post?). I have the originals safe here; I just wonder why this happened.
Mark

ERIC · Post by **ERIC** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:47 pm

Hi, Mark,

The answer to your question of 'why' is...computers can be a pain in the butt, and counting on others to do the job for you always seems to come back to bite you in the ***. The hosting company I was using (FuitadNet.com) was suspposed to be backing up all of our site files, daily. Apparently, they have been sleeping at the wheel, and even what they have been backing up has been not what we needed, and they never seem to have the time to make up for their mistakes. Rest assured, I am moving this site to a new company who, hopefully, will do a better job than they.

As for your posts, don't worry about it. I will just do a search for all of your posts and go through and manually edit them myself. You've put a lot of work into what you have posted. I will be the one who will make sure all of that is preserved.

Post by **markskor** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:08 am

Eric,
Thanks but no...I will just edit each and re-post.
For me, it will be 25 relatively easy steps, (one for each story) - for you...fugit-about-it!
Plus, how could you ever know that you have it all absolutely right?
The only question is, should I wait until after you make the move?
Mark

Hikin Mike · Post by **Hikin Mike** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:05 am

For what its worth...I notice wrong punctuation when I use Abobe Bridge and then post it on Flickr. I'll have '?' instead of "". I love computers...it's all Bill Gates' fault!

ERIC · Post by **ERIC** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:22 am

Mark, that's up to you. In theory, it sould transfer over just fine. But I've learned there are no guarantees.

Post by **markskor** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:54 pm

Eric,
Done...edited and re-pasted all. Kind of hate to see the edited 2 or 3 times at the bottom of each, but...
let us see if it sticks.
Mark

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