Finally: all blog posts of before recovered
Some time ago, I updated my wordpress installation to the most current; something I had postponed quite some time because I expected problems. Like I wrote before, the update itself went ok, but I could not recover most of my previous posts because a bug in wordpress exported all spam comments to the backup file. Unfortunately, this resulted in a backup file so large it could not be imported into the new version of the software. I tried several approaches to reduce the file size, but to no avail. That’s why I finally decided to write a little program to deal with the spam myself, which resulted in my first Mac OS X program ever. After quite a lot of time, today I finally got a working solution that brought the backup file size down from a whopping 44 MB with spam, to a mere 2 MB (with just a little spam) that could be easily imported into the new version of wordpress. I’m happy to announce that as of today all posts from the very beginning of this blog in 2007 are available again. I will try to tidy up the software and put it online for those of you who are looking for a solution to similar problems.
