Recovering data from patch sites that have disappeared
Glenn Chase maintains the Scout Collectors Base Camp an excellent resource for Patch Collecting Resources on the web. What you may not know, is that he also maintains a blog.
His most recent post has the catchy title “Recovering data from patch sites that have disappeared” My snarkiness aside, it is a great post on how to find data from that website you had bookmarked which now gives the dreaded “The web site address you entered could not be found.”
Every few months I get an email from a visitor advising me that I have a broken link on The Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp. Sometimes it’s just a polite “heads up” so I can try to track down the new location. Often it’s a plaintive request that I put it back on-line, and I have to explain in my reply that the site wasn’t mine to begin with, I just provided a link to it.
His first method is to utilize the Google cache function. The second is …
Well check out the post and give it a try.
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April 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
There’s always The Wayback Machine at archive.org.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Chris,
If you follow the link, that is what Glenn suggests.
Previously, my knowledge of the Wayback Machine was limited to Peabody and Sherman
Bill