Ministering Assignments Deleted
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 2:02 pm
Greetings russellhltn, scgallafent, et.al.,
I’ve been around this forum since my first few months as a ward clerk in my last ward in 2007, and around internet technology since well before that, so I’m 99% sure of the answer, but I told my bishop I would ask, to help him feel better.
I’m currently the 2nd counselor in the EQ presidency, and on permanent disability, so I have the time to work on things that my fellow ward leaders do not, especially my tech unsavvy bishop. My bishop wrote up a list with most of the ministering assignments for the elders and asked me to enter it on the Web site. I did so, and in collaboration via text with him and my EQ pres., I’ve been fine-tuning for about a month. An hour ago the bishop sent me a text saying that he “made some changes to the assignments but now they’re gone.” I assumed he meant the changes were gone, but I logged on and my heart sank. He managed to wipe out all of the men’s assignments! (Luckily he didn’t do anything to the RS assignments or we’d have another widow in the ward and the RS pres. would be under arrest!)
I told him that the assignments are unrecoverable, and with his handwritten pages and our text threads I can re-enter everything over the next few days. He tried to offer various suggestions, e.g. going back to the last restore point on his personal computer, which I told him has nothing to do with the Church’s servers, etc. I also told him to NEVER do anything but LOOK at the assignments online ever again.
So, because I told him that I would ask, is there a way to retrieve the deleted assignments? Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Terry Sackett
Desert Inn Ward
Las Vegas Nevada East Stake
I’ve been around this forum since my first few months as a ward clerk in my last ward in 2007, and around internet technology since well before that, so I’m 99% sure of the answer, but I told my bishop I would ask, to help him feel better.
I’m currently the 2nd counselor in the EQ presidency, and on permanent disability, so I have the time to work on things that my fellow ward leaders do not, especially my tech unsavvy bishop. My bishop wrote up a list with most of the ministering assignments for the elders and asked me to enter it on the Web site. I did so, and in collaboration via text with him and my EQ pres., I’ve been fine-tuning for about a month. An hour ago the bishop sent me a text saying that he “made some changes to the assignments but now they’re gone.” I assumed he meant the changes were gone, but I logged on and my heart sank. He managed to wipe out all of the men’s assignments! (Luckily he didn’t do anything to the RS assignments or we’d have another widow in the ward and the RS pres. would be under arrest!)
I told him that the assignments are unrecoverable, and with his handwritten pages and our text threads I can re-enter everything over the next few days. He tried to offer various suggestions, e.g. going back to the last restore point on his personal computer, which I told him has nothing to do with the Church’s servers, etc. I also told him to NEVER do anything but LOOK at the assignments online ever again.
So, because I told him that I would ask, is there a way to retrieve the deleted assignments? Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Terry Sackett
Desert Inn Ward
Las Vegas Nevada East Stake