Saturday, May 7, 2011

Technical Support?

Okay, this is a techy post.

I'm not great at technology. Simple, no brainer fixes, I'm all over. But if it's anything more than a very user friendly problem, I stumped!

I read blogs from my Blogger dashboard. I understand that there are readers and people who use them, love them, but my dashboard works and I know how to use it.

Now for the problem. Yesterday when I went to my dashboard the "Blogs I'm following" tab was empty and had the following notcice:
  • You are not currently following any blogs. Use the "add" button below to enter blogs you'd like to follow in your Reading List. Learn more
...blink blink blink. I don't know where all of my blogs went. My profile still has a way-too-long list of blogs that I currently follow, but none of them are on my dashboard anymore.

My husband has taught me that before I start asking for computer help, always reboot (which has fixed many a glitch). But I've rebooted, I've poked around on help menues, googled my dilema and I've got nothing.

I know how to re-add the blogs manually, one at a time, but would prefer to find a fab fix that restores the whole she-bang without the time consuming monotony of cutting and pasting every address individually.

Any Techy Goddesses out there with any helpful ideas?

8 comments:

  1. I have no idea.

    I think I just use the blog roll thing.

    I'm not techie at all.

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  2. That has happened to me before, but when I came back to my dashboard later, all my blogs were back. So....I didn't really fix it, it just fixed itself. Hope yours does, too!

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  3. It does this every once in awhile and it comes back. It usually happens when Google or Blogger is updating their stuff.
    I wouldn't worry about it or mess with it - I would bet the odds it will be back soon :-D

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  4. Miss Nelson (I love calling you that!) and Cherie are right. It's back now (but it was gone for two whole days, a lifetime in the bloggy world!)

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  5. It's just a technical error. Refresh the page and things should be fine. If not, log out and log back in. It happens to me fairly often.

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  6. Here's what I think may have happened: if you don't read the blogs for a week, they disappear or something. That happened to me once during a really busy time with my university classes. I'm not sure if that's the case, but for some reason, I think I remember some kind of notice saying that my blogs would resume after a certain time...not sure this is helpful, but it did happen to me too.

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  7. Hello Aunt of mine!!! I lover you!

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  8. I'm pretty sure that I am even less techy than you, in the last week I have lost ALL my favorites, on my saved history, I can't even find a place to start a new list, I guess I will just have to keep working on wedding stuff, hope all goes well with yours! Hugs

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