Luckily I had a backup copy of my website so I have restored the missing products.
Now I still have duplicate items in my trash category does anyone know how to delete the trash items without deleting the connected items on a good category?
A work around might be to be to change the item numbers of the good category products? Not sure...
Correct - actually I pay my web host for a rapid restore service and I keep a number of backups on my server.
For around 7GB it only took an hour.
after making a big mistake early on, I now am in the habit of using the built-in backup utility before making any significant changes, takes minutes rather than an hour to restore
after making a big mistake early on, I now am in the habit of using the built-in backup utility before making any significant changes, takes minutes rather than an hour to restore
Interesting - minutes sounds a lot better than an hour - thank you for the idea.