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Many great guides and awesome blogs were lost as a result of the recent downtime of the forums. However, all hope is not lost. If you have lost a guide or a blog or other topic that you do not have an exact word-for-word copy of, and would like to recover it, there is a good chance that you may be able to recover it if you follow these steps:

 

 

 

1) Go to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe ... tnG=Search

 

 

 

2) This will bring up a google search page. In the search bar, you should see "NAME site:forum.tip.it". What you should do is replace NAME with your username and hit search. This should bring up a list of topics in which your name has appeared, whether you posted in it or were the topic's creator.

 

 

 

3) To view the topic, click "Cached" at the end of a result (see image).

 

 

 

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4) Copy that text to some place on your computer (such as a Word or Notepad document) and save it.

 

 

 

5) Go to each picture in your post and right click on it and click Properties (don't worry if the image is not your original one). Find where it gives a link to your image and copy that as well. Place it appropriately inside of your copied file.

 

 

 

 

 

You should now have a text copy of your old guide, blog, or whatever. Before you leave, I would recommend checking each image link by placing it into the address bar of your browser (you may have to refresh, especially if you used Imageshack). This should give you a (fairly) complete copy of your guide exactly as it was the last time it was edited, regardless on whether it was made before or after the rollback.

 

 

 

Special thanks to darkblade986 for writing the above guide.

 

 

 

And for those of you who have FireFox, this add-on may be helpful as well: CacheViewer (thank you Laikrob for the link/info).

 

 

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570 This also works; it is called resurrect pages. It doesn't work with Release candidates though. It has access to more archives though.

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