So I learned an interesting lesson this evening. When rewriting recurring posts (g&p updates, for example), do NOT pull up the previous version in Live Writer, change the title and expect it to become a brand new post.
I learned after hitting publish on “g&p – 9 months” that apparently that is not how it works. (which, by the way, I should know as I have changed the title on previously published posts before.)
Live Writer completely wiped out the 8 months post that I started with.
Take a look.
Click the triangle next to May.
Scroll through the month of May.
There is no g&p post in May anymore.
It’s gone.
Actually, first it even put the new post on May 2nd where the original post had been posted. Then I changed the publishing date and it disappeared from cyberspace.
Now take a look at the specific web address for 9 months (hover over the link above or the title below).
Notice how there’s an 8 in there.
Great. Proof positive of my stupidity.
Never doing that again. Back to the old cut and paste routine.
I may go back and briefly recreate the 8 month post but I’m not sure just yet.
update: I got bored and recreated it here.
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