STATUS: Things are getting back to normal.
What’s playing on the iPod right now? WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO by Billie Holiday
A week and one day. Felt like an eternity! In this short span of time, we completely upgraded our entire office computer system with a brand spankin’ new server.
With any major overhaul, there are always a few kinks.
For example: with the migration, something went wonky with our query email. For some reason, the server wasn’t recognizing when emails had been downloaded into the program. One morning, Anita opened the query program to find 5000+ queries in the inbox. That was a shock. The server had downloaded each query 5 to 10 times and then kept repeating it.
I’m happy to report that the problem is finally solved. I don’t think we lost any queries in the process but if you don’t hear from us in the next 2 to 3 weeks, you might want to resend. But you only need to send it once… I don’t think Anita ever wants to open that program and find an eye-popping 5000 queries in the inbox again.
Every day we keep finding a few more things that need to be tweaked. Like this morning. I found one whole folder to be missing. Poof. Just gone. Have no idea where or how. Luckily, we back everything up to the cloud so it was a matter of 15 minutes for me to locate it and repopulate it on the server. But it makes me wonder what other little discoveries are going to occur.
Our tech person was even here this afternoon for a few hours. And I do think we’ll see him a few more times before the week is out.
And if this stress of a computer conversion wasn’t enough, our new employee started last week.
Call me a glutton for punishment.
Technology. Such a help yet such a royal pain.
Wow. Good luck with all that technology change. I remember when my stepdad has his pharmacy and did a technology upgrade. He told me all about it while we waited for a doctor to come in at an appointment. I was only a freshman in high school so my eyes probably glazed a little at all the details. But good to see that there wasn’t an actual day of 5,000 queries submitted in one day. Would have been crazy to imagine.
And here I thought the Times Square publicity had meant a sudden upswing in writers desparate to submit manuscripts to your agency. 🙂
Ha, I was a little worried for you there when I read 5,000 queries in one day.
– Nicholas
Could be worse. Has your new employee asked–“Where are all the piles of manuscripts?”
Yowch! Yeah, nothing makes a morning complete quite like computer problems…
wow! That would have caused a minor panic attack for me!
Heh heh, Always fun . . . upgrades.
We thought you must have got sucked into some strange agent dimension.
Upgrades – whew! They can sure wreak havoc on our daily lives…before they are correctly installed. Afterward, we wonder how we ever lived without them, though.
500-1000 queries is way better than 5000. Thank goodness it was only a glitch.
Whew. 5000 individual queries in a day would have been a challenge. We would have had to set up some kind of Thunderdome and only allow the victor to query.
eek! I can see how that could give you a heartattack! I’m glad it was a glitch and that you could fix it! 🙂
All I can say, “Cars and Computers! Cars and computers.”
I thought it was bad when someone on Facebook made a mistake and I wound up getting 900 private messages from her at one time.
I wondered what was going on too. I check this blog every day, and I’m afraid I might have been going through withdrawals!
Glad to have you back. Missed reading you! Good luck with finding the other little discoveries. Maybe 20 dollar bills will start pumping out of your laptop.
Oh wow. Technology is so needed but such a pain. Glad that you’re all up and running, even if you’re still discovering kinks. Good luck with the new employee!
Well, I do applaud you for keeping up with the tech side of things. Who says publishing is anathema to change?
Yes, but did it send 5,000 rejections to each queryist? My Windows Mail glitched and went AWOL last night. ‘The Contacts failed to load’ etc. etc. I searched the Net and found the glitch to be more or less incurable. So I turned to Thunderbird. The e-mail program, not the wine…
My congratulations to Marie Lu, BTW. AND to her agent! I suppose your picture is on top of the building, just out of frame?
Oh no! it makes you wonder,as an aspiring author who has had to email queries…what actually happens to your query…Food for thought?