Emails to myself
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
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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29 responses
@arthurchappell (44998)
• 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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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
20 Nov 15
@Rollo1 just glad some are still accessible for salvage and posterity
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@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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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• 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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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• 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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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• 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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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• 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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@GardenGerty (160696)
• 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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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
20 Nov 15
you can also add the @ before the username
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@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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@DanieGirl80587 (2713)
• United States
20 Nov 15
@Rollo1 Thanks. I'm probably going to need it.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• 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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@TheHorse (218927)
• 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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@JESSY3236 (19942)
• 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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@shellyjaneo (1081)
• United Kingdom
20 Nov 15
I'm struggling to find many of mine but I will keep trying, I have made a new notebook in one note which I am saving them too, instead of having to save them all individually x
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