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Important Reminder Back-up Your Boutique Files

#1 User is offline   April Showers 

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 07:52 AM

A Reminder to Back-up Your Boutique Files
Right after Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 3), we will be doing some maintenance to the database that runs our storefront (Boutique). This database is where all the Scrap Girls customer order histories are stored. We have been informed that after nearly eight years in business, this database has become unwieldy, and it is recommended that we take some actions to clean it up. Therefore, we will be deleting records older than June 1, 2007.



This update will affect you in several ways:

  • In the past, we have always been able to help you if you had a tragedy, like losing your hard drive. After this maintenance is complete, we will only be able to look back five years to help you reconstruct what you had. Therefore, if you have products purchased before June 1, 2007, we strongly encourage you to spend some time this weekend backing up your product files.
  • After this update is complete, you will only be able to see your order history for orders dated June 1, 2007, to the present. If you would like to keep your pre-June 1, 2007, order history, now is the time to copy/paste that history to another document or to print off any of those records. Once the maintenance is complete, Scrap Girls will have no access to these old order histories whatsoever.
  • Additionally, as a result of the maintenance, any products remaining in your shopping cart will be cleared. All shopping carts will be emptied. If you like to store a bunch of digital scrapbooking products in your cart to remind yourself to buy them in the future, now is the time to make a list of those products - or better yet, just go ahead and check out and bring those products home!
In case you hadn't noticed, we are running a terrific sale right now to encourage you to clear out your shopping cart and bring those great products home!



Remember, before Labor Day (Sept. 3) is over:

  • Back up your products purchased prior to June 1, 2007.
  • Back up (make a copy of) your order history prior to June 1, 2007.
  • Clear out your shopping cart.

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Posted 31 August 2012 - 07:57 AM

Thanks for the reminders!!!

Database maintenance is way overdue.... that's a LOT of history!!!
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 08:06 AM

Thanks for the info April!
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 09:03 AM

Thanks for the reminder.
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 09:45 AM

Got it! I am safe since I didn't join until October 2007, but it is still a great idea to check on all your backups anyways!Thanks for the reminder.
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 09:45 PM

Thanks for the reminder, April!
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Posted 01 September 2012 - 01:14 AM

April, do you know if they will continually be dropping order history older than 5 years? If so, we should get in the habit of saving it periodically.
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Posted 01 September 2012 - 05:16 AM

yep I am backed up four times over, if not more but one can never be backed up enough... thanks for the heads up April

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Posted 01 September 2012 - 07:28 AM

Gayle, that's something we really can't answer. Right now it's just a one time thing. But if the database becomes unwieldy again, there's always the chance that (in the future) we'll have to clean it up. But we'd let you know when this is scheduled to happen
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Posted 01 September 2012 - 12:46 PM

I'm glad to know we'd get advanced notice! Thanks, Angie!
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Posted 03 September 2012 - 09:49 AM

I try to keep my backups up-to-date BUT sometimes a month slips by --- thanks for the reminder!
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Posted 03 September 2012 - 05:13 PM

All set and ready for the updates!

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