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August 19, 2024
After being hacked and the site going down, I spent two days with the hosting company putting up backups of the site, both what they have and what I have, and nothing worked. Apparently, the code they put on my site (which does affect the actual modules) was inserted before that, maybe the first of the year. So I could use a copy from last year, but all my work this year would be lost, and I would have to do it again. I could not find the code, so I could not be sure it wouldn’t happen again in a month. I have been having problems with CPU usage on the server for more than a year now. The hackers could have been causing that also.
So I decided to just start over with a completely new website design. The modules are backed up redundantly over the last 6 years or so on Blue Ray DVDs.
As I look at both these backups on Blue Ray and my laptop folders with TW files, I am finding 50,000 theWord modules (not in other formats, just for theWord), and I haven’t even finished searching. I am still going through zip files that other people have sent me over the years. So a lot of this is the same module in many different folders. I am copying everything to a central folder and overwriting the older files with newer ones. When I sometimes see a dozen modules which are essentially the work, just different versions and different folders where copies exist, it is very time-consuming to go through and delete all that down to a single module. At the same time, if I open a module, and it has an error in it, I need those other copies to see if one is good, or I have to remake the entire module if I can find a source for it.
To sort through all these files is a lot of work, and that is not even beginning to actually open files in theWord. If I were to put all of them in a theWord work folder, and run the program scanning that file, it would probably take a week or more to index each file before I get control over the program itself. So I cannot do that. I want to produce new modules, not fix old modules. Unfortunately, I am going to have to upload my modules “as is” and if there are glaring errors, please email to let me know.
I am also not pleased with some of the modules that have entered into my collection because I do not think that they are of very good content. Understanding that different people value the same work greatly different, I am trying to eliminate these when I come across something. Note that I still have backups on Blue Ray DVDs, but I will list them somewhere (but I don’t know where yet) and make some way for people to request them.
I would like to make you aware that the twmodules.com website is archived in archive.org at this URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20240315000000*/twmodules.com. The good point is that you can browse and read the module descriptions there without any problem, and this is by snapshot date. The bad point is that the downloading doesn’t work from archive.org.
What I am going to do is simply put mass download links on different pages, and you can scan them and then search the web if you are unsure of a work. But my pages will just have a lot of download links, with little other information. Generally, all I am looking at now is Author name, title of the work.