jsfiddle nightmare: Schrodinger's lost code
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Yes, I depended upon some code I was writing at jsfiddle.net and suddenly the entire sample code was gone. :wtf: :wtf: I had worked on this for a few days. Oy!! PaNIC!! PANIC!!! Here's a snapshot of the fiddle that exists and doesn't exist[^]. You can see that JSFiddle is generating a snapshot of my original code (on the right). But, how can I see the code, but it isn't there!?! PanIC! p-p-p-PANIC!!!!! However, if you click the jsfiddle then the system attempts to load the editor and everything is blank. Here's the link to the fiddle[^] -- which is blank. !!!! If you compare the link to the image you can even see that it is referencing the 72gzs94v ID that is supposed to be the code. The code exists and it doesn't... Got Very Lucky I was able to inspect the code from the original snapshot and copy out the code using FireFox web tools so I didn't lose code that I had worked on for quite some time. I no longer trust jsfiddle (and yes, I was a fool for trusting it in the first place.) Public Service Announcement Trust no one! Always save backups!! :laugh: I now have a backup of the code on my local machine. Phew...
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Yes, I depended upon some code I was writing at jsfiddle.net and suddenly the entire sample code was gone. :wtf: :wtf: I had worked on this for a few days. Oy!! PaNIC!! PANIC!!! Here's a snapshot of the fiddle that exists and doesn't exist[^]. You can see that JSFiddle is generating a snapshot of my original code (on the right). But, how can I see the code, but it isn't there!?! PanIC! p-p-p-PANIC!!!!! However, if you click the jsfiddle then the system attempts to load the editor and everything is blank. Here's the link to the fiddle[^] -- which is blank. !!!! If you compare the link to the image you can even see that it is referencing the 72gzs94v ID that is supposed to be the code. The code exists and it doesn't... Got Very Lucky I was able to inspect the code from the original snapshot and copy out the code using FireFox web tools so I didn't lose code that I had worked on for quite some time. I no longer trust jsfiddle (and yes, I was a fool for trusting it in the first place.) Public Service Announcement Trust no one! Always save backups!! :laugh: I now have a backup of the code on my local machine. Phew...
You're missing the version suffix on the path. As far as I can see, the last version you saved was #74: Edit fiddle - JSFiddle - Code Playground[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer
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You're missing the version suffix on the path. As far as I can see, the last version you saved was #74: Edit fiddle - JSFiddle - Code Playground[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
So fantastic!! that's one of the reason I post these crazy things to CP...because there are so many smart and helpful people here. Absolutely amazing you noticed that!!! I wonder why that it wouldn't load that from my JSFiddle.net account?? Thanks so much for reading my post and for your help. I really appreciate it.:thumbsup: EDIT And I should say this too. I logged into my account from another web browser and it still failed. Then I logged in on another machine and it failed too. Must be a crazy bug in the JSfiddle account plugin.
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Yes, I depended upon some code I was writing at jsfiddle.net and suddenly the entire sample code was gone. :wtf: :wtf: I had worked on this for a few days. Oy!! PaNIC!! PANIC!!! Here's a snapshot of the fiddle that exists and doesn't exist[^]. You can see that JSFiddle is generating a snapshot of my original code (on the right). But, how can I see the code, but it isn't there!?! PanIC! p-p-p-PANIC!!!!! However, if you click the jsfiddle then the system attempts to load the editor and everything is blank. Here's the link to the fiddle[^] -- which is blank. !!!! If you compare the link to the image you can even see that it is referencing the 72gzs94v ID that is supposed to be the code. The code exists and it doesn't... Got Very Lucky I was able to inspect the code from the original snapshot and copy out the code using FireFox web tools so I didn't lose code that I had worked on for quite some time. I no longer trust jsfiddle (and yes, I was a fool for trusting it in the first place.) Public Service Announcement Trust no one! Always save backups!! :laugh: I now have a backup of the code on my local machine. Phew...
raddevus wrote:
Always save backups!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Yes, I depended upon some code I was writing at jsfiddle.net and suddenly the entire sample code was gone. :wtf: :wtf: I had worked on this for a few days. Oy!! PaNIC!! PANIC!!! Here's a snapshot of the fiddle that exists and doesn't exist[^]. You can see that JSFiddle is generating a snapshot of my original code (on the right). But, how can I see the code, but it isn't there!?! PanIC! p-p-p-PANIC!!!!! However, if you click the jsfiddle then the system attempts to load the editor and everything is blank. Here's the link to the fiddle[^] -- which is blank. !!!! If you compare the link to the image you can even see that it is referencing the 72gzs94v ID that is supposed to be the code. The code exists and it doesn't... Got Very Lucky I was able to inspect the code from the original snapshot and copy out the code using FireFox web tools so I didn't lose code that I had worked on for quite some time. I no longer trust jsfiddle (and yes, I was a fool for trusting it in the first place.) Public Service Announcement Trust no one! Always save backups!! :laugh: I now have a backup of the code on my local machine. Phew...
One of the great mysteries of the web: Once you put something on it, it exists forever... somewhere. Until of course you need it again, and then it no longer exists anywhere. Both of these statements are true simultaneously, of course.
Software Zen:
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One of the great mysteries of the web: Once you put something on it, it exists forever... somewhere. Until of course you need it again, and then it no longer exists anywhere. Both of these statements are true simultaneously, of course.
Software Zen:
delete this;It's like the old monkeys on typewriters story. Every document, image, etc is out there somewhere. It just hasn't been indexed yet.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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One of the great mysteries of the web: Once you put something on it, it exists forever... somewhere. Until of course you need it again, and then it no longer exists anywhere. Both of these statements are true simultaneously, of course.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Once you put something on it, it exists forever... somewhere.
Until some suit decides to delete it thinking that will boost their site's SERPs: :doh: CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Yes, I depended upon some code I was writing at jsfiddle.net and suddenly the entire sample code was gone. :wtf: :wtf: I had worked on this for a few days. Oy!! PaNIC!! PANIC!!! Here's a snapshot of the fiddle that exists and doesn't exist[^]. You can see that JSFiddle is generating a snapshot of my original code (on the right). But, how can I see the code, but it isn't there!?! PanIC! p-p-p-PANIC!!!!! However, if you click the jsfiddle then the system attempts to load the editor and everything is blank. Here's the link to the fiddle[^] -- which is blank. !!!! If you compare the link to the image you can even see that it is referencing the 72gzs94v ID that is supposed to be the code. The code exists and it doesn't... Got Very Lucky I was able to inspect the code from the original snapshot and copy out the code using FireFox web tools so I didn't lose code that I had worked on for quite some time. I no longer trust jsfiddle (and yes, I was a fool for trusting it in the first place.) Public Service Announcement Trust no one! Always save backups!! :laugh: I now have a backup of the code on my local machine. Phew...
JS fiddle is awesome. I use it on the regular, but if you're tinkering with server-side or isomorphic JS it's much, much safer to just run it via node directly on your machine. Even for really simple stuff, its command line interpreter will handle things perfectly. Just as long as you don't need a DOM or styles for your quick and dirty testing.
Jeremy Falcon
