WordPress updates the database when it upgrades, so it entirely possible that the database is profoundly changed by an upgrade. I dump my WordPress database daily and back it up (I also use rsync to keep an updated collection of media (mostly photos) in the wp-content folder, because I hate losing or reconstructing my blogs. I don't have any insight into the issue mentioned by OP though. On Mon., Nov. 29, 2021, 13:54 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | > | > Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". | | Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket | access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch).
Ahh. Kind of "no".
| > Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere | > downstream of the disk files? | | "fix it" meant "broke it".
I quoted "fix it" because I understood that.
| The MySQL DB tables seem to have been quietly | reprocessed from one encoding to another.
That seems (1) odd and (2) rude.
Is there a chance that the problem is actually in presenting the data (due to some incorrect setting of a locale somewhere)?
Can you ask you supplier just what happened, why, and if they can reverse it for you?
There is a chance that the transformation was bijective (or at least injective) and thus reversible. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk