Title says most of it. Your notes that got deleted, (and maybe even some that didn't), basically all notes that were 30+ days old in your account, can be downloaded *for a limited time*.

Go to your orgnote page (http://www.prince.org/notes/) and you'll see the new link in the box, near the top, to download a .zip file of your orgnotes (it's one big text file zipped up). This should include all of the notes that were removed from your account. This is a one-time thing, the downloadable archive.

The zipfiles will be deleted in a month or so--so grab it while you can...

The new orgnote policy will be enforced (old notes deleted) on at least a weekly basis now, so get into good habits about reading and deleting, or they'll go poof

thanx for the zip file dude. Was worried I would lose all my notes. But tell me, you cant have created a zip file for every member manually, how do you create zip files on the fly like that??

They aren't created on the fly--they were created in batch, for all the users who had notes to be deleted, using a quick and dirty CLI script I wrote... here's some of the guts of it, if you're curious... (I've omitted some of the more "sensitive" parts)

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#!/usr/bin/php

include_once('db.inc');

define('NOTES_ARCHIVE_AGE', 30);
define('ZIP', '/usr/bin/zip');
define('DEBUG', 1);

function export_notes(&$db, $userid, $age = NOTES_ARCHIVE_AGE) {
$old = time() - (86400 * $age);
if (DEBUG) echo "Exporting notes for userid=$userid, age=$age days:\n";
$q = "SELECT from_name, sent_date, subject, msg FROM ... (rest of query omitted but you get the idea...) ";
$notes = $db->fetchAll($q);
if (!is_array($notes)) { return ''; }
$p = '';
$tn = 0;
foreach ($notes as $n) {
$d = date('D M j Gs T Y', $n['sent_date']);
$msg = wordwrap($n['msg']);
++$tn;
$p .= "

---
From: $n[from_name]
Subj: $n[subject]
Date: $d

$msg

";
}
if (0 == $tn) { if (DEBUG) { echo " (no eligible orgnotes)\n"; } return true; }
// make DOS line endings
$p = preg_replace("|\r|s", '', $p);
$p = preg_replace("|\n|s", "\r\n", $p);
if (DEBUG) echo " retrieved $tn orgNotes\n";
$tn = '/tmp/orgnotes.txt';
@unlink($tn);
$fp = fopen($tn, 'w');
if (!$fp) { return false; }
if (!fwrite($fp, $p)) { return false; }
fclose($fp);
$fs = filesize($tn);
if (DEBUG) echo " $fs bytes written to $tn\n";
$tn2 = tempnam('/tmp', 'onaz') . '.zip';
$cmd = ZIP ." -j $tn2 $tn";
if (DEBUG) echo " zipping with $cmd\n";
`$cmd`;
$inf = $db->fetchSingle("SELECT ... (some tokens to make a secure hash)...");
do {
$rand = rand();
$key = md5($rand . (...more tokens...) . $rand);
} while ($db->fetchSingle("SELECT userid FROM notes_archive WHERE file_key='$key'"));
if (DEBUG) echo " key selected: $key\n";
$ffn = (...full path omitted...) . $key . '.zip';
if (!copy($tn2, $ffn)) { return false; }
if (!$db->execute("REPLACE INTO notes_archive (userid, file_key) VALUES ($userid, '$key')")) { return false; }
if (DEBUG) echo " copied to $ffn and DB updated\n";
unlink($tn);
unlink($tn2);
if (DEBUG) echo " cleanup complete.\n";
return true;
}


$db = new DBConn('CLI');

$unc = $db->fetchAll( -- sql query here to get user ids with orgnotes -- );
foreach ($unc as $userid) {
$res = export_notes($db, $userid);
if (!$res) { echo "failed for $userid!"; }
}
?>
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Man...maybe it's me, but PHP seems really cryptic-looking.

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