Emails to myself / myLot

Boston, Massachusetts

November 19, 2015 9:59pm CST

I finally got around to searching Google for cached copies of some of my bubble posts that disappeared with the now defunct Bubblews. A good number of them are cached. I found about three so far that I decided to save because they are themes I might one day write about again and this will give me a jumping off point. I don't think I would re-publish anything exactly as written. But I am too lazy and tire tonight to open Google drive and save them all as documents in a special folder, etc. So I am just emailing them to myself with the title Bubble in the subject line. Then later on, I can just search my email for everything called Bubble and look them over. If you didn't delete and save all your bubbles, and you are hoping to find some of them again, go search Google for them. The easiest way is to put this in the search box: site:bubblews.com "your name" Some of them may not be cached, in which case they are gone. But you may be surprised by what you find if you try. Have you tried searching for your old bubble posts? did you already save them? or are you moving on both site-wise and emotionally?

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (45002)

• Preston, England

20 Nov 15

been fishing for mine - seems odd that some are entirely gone while others are archived - seems rather random

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

It does, and I can't find a rhyme or reason for why some were archived - they don't appear more worthy or anything.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (45002)

• Preston, England

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 just glad some are still accessible for salvage and posterity

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peggy baker

@softbabe44 (5816)

• Vancouver, Washington

21 Nov 15

@Rollo1 That might be the right thing to do is see how many you can save.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50525)

• Centralia, Missouri

20 Nov 15

yeah, I found a few. I have some GOOD stuff over there, and hope to find more.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

It's work to go through them, but it could be rewarding.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50525)

• Centralia, Missouri

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 those poems I posted up were all recovered that way, well the recent poems anyways

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (48633)

• Canada

20 Nov 15

I had left some posts on the site, nothing really meaningful to me. But I recently found one of my posts on pinterest, it bothered me.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

@Juliaacv If someone pinned it and there's a link to the post, then you shouldn't be unhappy because it means more traffic to you post and in turn, more earnings from views. But now, of course, it won't lead anywhere.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (48633)

• Canada

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 It bothered me that it is on pinterest, I don't even use that site.

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Sharon

@simone10 (54189)

• Louisville, Kentucky

20 Nov 15

I'm having a little trouble getting mine to come up. Maybe it's just because I'm not awake yet so I will try again a little later.

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Susan

@HazySue (39264)

• Gouverneur, New York

20 Nov 15

@AnjaP I am also having a problem getting to my posts. I can pull up the posts on the search engine but can't get to the actual post. I will try again later. Thanks.

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Susan

@HazySue (39264)

• Gouverneur, New York

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 I was coming back to let you know that I am able to get some of my posts. Thank you so much for your help.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

@HazySue Glad you were successful!

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39515)

• United States

20 Nov 15

i'd already copies 'f schtuff from o'er a year from there saved in my word doc's with the url's fer each. i jest need to see if'n i can de-index 'em now that 'other place' is defunct. nah, not to use elsewhere without major o'erhauls. more so jest the fact that they're mine 'n i wish 'em gone.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

Yes, they are yours and you want to see them disappear. What you do with them is up to you, they are your words.

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Marsha

@MarshaMusselman (38723)

• Midland, Michigan

20 Nov 15

I'm currently saving them to my document folder on my computer. At a later date, I'll figure out which cloud I'd want them saved in. I could probably save them on evernote just as easily and there it would also show five of my other posts down on the lower right side. That's been helpful too as I've been able to get more specific in some of my searches. @betsuz is the one suggested that to me and others on a recent post she wrote after reading mine.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

I am too lazy to save them to a file. It's just easier to copy them into an email for now. I may not even want them later, but everyone has their own methods and should do what works.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157865)

• United States

20 Nov 15

I am basiclly just moving on. I may go search however, out of curiousity. I have done that in the past to see what comes up.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

I can understand that. Not everything is something you want to save, but it's fun to go back and read what you wrote in the past.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (159936)

• Boise, Idaho

20 Nov 15

Great info. Thanks.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

Happy Hunting

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (159936)

• Boise, Idaho

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 ...Indeed.

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hereandthere

@hereandthere (45651)

• Philippines

20 Nov 15

you can also add the @ before the username

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

you can add "by your name" and you can even add month and year if you want to be specific.

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Eric Fink

@esfes025 (432)

• Elkhart, Indiana

20 Nov 15

I was so angry that they did not even put up a warning or anything but at the same time it did not surprise me that they did that though. So many posts I did where they are now gone. I may have to see about your method though.

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Yalul

@yalul070 (1713)

• Manila, Philippines

20 Nov 15

I think i've moved on. I won't be able to repost them anyway so it's fine with me if they just go away with Bubblews.

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OtakuNerdyChica

@DanieGirl80587 (2713)

• United States

20 Nov 15

I think I found some when it was still up. I may search now and see if any are still floating around somewhere in this big internet world.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

Good luck

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OtakuNerdyChica

@DanieGirl80587 (2713)

• United States

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 Thanks. I'm probably going to need it.

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John King

@ison_1 (1240)

•

20 Nov 15

As I've said before, by writing rubbish, I am unconcerned about finding my writings

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

But it's sad to lose those silly comment threads and the verbal battles with you and @Tonyflanigan

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John King

@ison_1 (1240)

•

20 Nov 15

@Rollo1 ahhh yes...that's true. Those were fun!

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Janet Anderson

@Auntylou (4264)

• Oxford, England

20 Nov 15

I really must have a look , though I am not holding my breath with anticipation. Like the tip of e mailing them

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

20 Nov 15

It's just easier to copy the text into an email. And they won't get lost.

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cmoneyspinner

@cmoneyspinner (9221)

• Austin, Texas

21 Nov 15

Yep. I found mine. The cached copies were easy to find. It's really too bad Bubblews went down. It's real easy to find stuff in the search results. Obviously the owners figured out a way to get the SEO god to love them.

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sofs

@sofssu (23662)

•

20 Nov 15

I saved many, a couple of weeks before meltdown

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69390)

• Germany

20 Nov 15

I've saved nearly all my posts and I succeeded in deleting nearly all bubblews posts before the light was switched off by Arvind.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (207500)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Nov 15

I saved and deleted as many of the "good" ones as I could before my delete function was disabled. I haven't checked my "saved Bubblews file" lately to see how many that actually was.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (207500)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Nov 15

I send emails to myself all the time. In fact, I start my progress notes at home and send them to myself at work, where I cut and paste to the proper forms. I haven't bothered to search for my missing Bubblews posts. In fact, many (Like osts about poison oak, manzanita trees, etc.), I can recreate pretty quickly. My latest post is about the little tree I make at Christmas. I think I did a similar post last year at "that other site." But this "fresh" one only took about three minutes to write. The hardest part was finding my picture of some of the trees from last year.

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Jessica

@JESSY3236 (19057)

• United States

20 Nov 15

I'm too lazy to go searching for mine. Some of them I had saved through word a long time ago.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326601)

• Rockingham, Australia

21 Nov 15

Thanks for this info. I think I have all my posts saved in Word. If you want to delete them from the 'cache' and use them elsewhere, is there a way to delete them?

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