{"id":224,"date":"2016-11-20T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woestenije.nl\/?p=224"},"modified":"2016-11-20T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T12:00:36","slug":"how-to-retrieve-your-deleted-tumblr-account-all-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woestenije.nl\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"How to retrieve your deleted Tumblr account all by yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

dewoestenije<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago I accidentally deleted my entire Tumblr account. Yes, I know it sounds silly, but fortunately a quick Google search convinced me that other idiots have trodden this path.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what happened: all I wanted to do was delete one of my four blogs, but somehow the only delete button I could find was related to my entire account. I didn\u2019t pay attention to the wording, so I assumed the big red exclamation mark was reminding me that I wouldn\u2019t be able to undelete my blog<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And poof, up in smoke it went.<\/p>\n

Unlike the situation a few years ago when Tumblr was apparently deleting accounts all by itself, they didn\u2019t budge when I asked them to un-delete my account. So I had to solve the issue on my own.<\/p>\n

The short of it<\/h2>\n

The short manual is this:<\/p>\n

1. Act quickly. You\u2019re going to use Google\u2019s copy of your old blog, and Google will only be keeping that copy for a few days or a few weeks.<\/p>\n

2. Don\u2019t re-create your blog on Tumblr with the exact same blog name until after you\u2019ve recovered all the posts you can find.<\/p>\n

3. Store a copy of all the blog\u2019s pages you can find on your computer. Later on, you can manually rebuild both text and images from that copy.<\/p>\n

Finding Google\u2019s copy of your posts<\/h2>\n

Fortunately, most content was stored in Google\u2019s cache. It\u2019s very likely that when you search for your blog\u2019s domain name, such as in my case for a blog called\u00a0\u2018Biesterije\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201c[my-deleted-blog].tumblr.com\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2026you will get a few results that refer to your old blog. Such as the search result in the image below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/figure>\n

The trick is not to click on the title in the Google search results, but to find the little green \u2018down arrow\u2019 at the right of the web address just below the search result\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

This will lead you to a copy that Google made of a particular page of your blog (page 7, in the above example). This copy will probably be a few days or a few weeks old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Storing a copy on your computer<\/h2>\n

When you\u2019ve nostalgically arrived on this page, save it as a file. That\u2019s fairly easy: right click on a piece of empty space (not on text), and in the dropdown that appears, select\u00a0\u201cSave as\u2026\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Select an appropriate place on your computer to store the file, and press Enter. The entire page will be stored as one HTML file plus a folder in which all images and other supporting material are stored.<\/p>\n

The HTML file and the folder will have identical names. It\u2019s wise to keep the name that your browser will suggest, i.e. the web address of the page you\u2019re saving.<\/p>\n

Making sure it\u2019s all there<\/h2>\n

Are you sure that you\u2019ve found all posts? Try googling for your blog\u2019s domain name plus\u00a0\u201cpage 2\u2033, and again with\u00a0\u201cpage 3\u2033, etc. Sometimes Google may have stored your page 4 even though it hasn\u2019t stored page 3. Or it may have a copy of page 9 even if you didn\u2019t get results for pages 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.<\/p>\n

You catch my drift.<\/p>\n

If you have more than one of these pages, you may find that\u00a0\u201cpage 1\u2033 was cached at a different time from\u00a0\u201cpage 2\u2033. If like me you have a habit of sometimes removing a post, sometimes editing existing ones, that means these \u201cpages\u201d will not always line up nively. You may find that some posts will appear on multiple cached pages, while others may have fallen through the cracks.<\/p>\n

Another way to find everything, or to find individual posts that were never stored as part of a page 1, 2, etc, might be to search for a specific page your-deleted-blog.tumblr.com\/archive. This should provide you with a list (with links) of all deleted posts). I didn\u2019t think of this until it was too late.<\/p>\n

Rebuilding the blog<\/h2>\n

Once you\u2019ve established that there is nothing left to recover, go to Tumblr, re-start your blog, and begin adding posts. From the HTML file that you stored, copy the text (hyperlinks will be copied along), and from the folder, insert the photos back in by hand.<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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