Ever Hunted for a Missing Password?

With the great need and use of passwords for everything we do online, I'm guessing you have also had to hunt High and Low for a missing password.

I thought I had my systems all down so 'pat' that I am rarely stuck for a missing password. Most sites allow you to enter your email (the one you signed up with at this site) and they will send you an automated link that allows you to create a new password for that login screen. Whew! What a Good thing!

It's about 20 years that I've used a black binder with pages for each and every site that I join or sign up with, and every time I create a new password I write it in on the right page with often a date beside it so I know when that became my latest password there.

Also at the end of every year, in December, I re-do these pages on my computer typing up the newest passwords to be as clear as possible. Then I print out my updated pages and insert them into the binder instead of the ones that have been quite scribbled up.

I think of myself as quite organized with my passwords. But then I run into an embarrassing situation and go into a panic mode.

You will recall that I had to replace my hard drive week before last, copy everything back from the backup drive to this new one and set up my 20+ emails again, and so gradually get back to my daily routines. (Which have not been quite so routine the last 3 months!) It was coming together nicely.... until last Tuesday when I was going to mail out the RoseBouquet via the DadaMail program I had installed on my novel's site. It worked wonderfully well since I installed it in February last year ('23).

Last Tuesday it would not recognize what I was sure was my last password. I struggled on that for more than an hour. When I entered my email for the code to allow me to reset, it didn't recognize that email at all!

Once before I had been able to get to the database from in cPanel, and find my password. This time that did NOT work. To get the RoseBouquet out to my subscribers I resorted to sending them via my email service.

With several other urgent things happening I didn't go back to this problem until this morning. I've tried again. No go! I tried the database, not there. Or I don't recognize it.

The man who developed this DadaMail program did a superb job, but he charges for help to fix my problems. The other alternative is to give up some hours to study his documentation pages to find my solution there.

Or, I could check into his rates for his services.

Or, I could do a fresh installation of DadaMail!

But I have several other unfinished projects!! So...I resort to prayer and thank God that He put some elastic into my head so that it does not too easily - explode!

My sincere sympathies if you have experiences with this kind of crisis. ;)

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