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I Hope It’s Not Too Late for You To Get Your Stories

Maybe it’s just a glitch — or a tweak

Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀
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1 min readJan 12, 2025

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A side-by-side screenshot showing the iCloud Downloads folder on an iPad. Details on two Medium content downloads, one from 11–17–24 and the other from 01–12–25. The files are identical.
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Oh, my. I save everything I write, but every now and then I request a download from Medium. The last time I requested this was on 11–17–24. Today (1–12–25), I requested another.

Imagine my surprise when I saw that the file from today was exactly the same as the one they sent in November. Same file name, same size, same contents. Just a different date.

Maybe Medium’s database is broken and can’t access anything beyond November 17th? That would be extremely weird and extremely coincidental, wouldn’t it? Naaw, it must be something else.

I wrote to support, of course. Considering that Medium seems pretty screwed up at this time, I’ll be pleasantly surprised if I get any response.

I have all my stuff and I have it in multiple places.

I sure hope you do.

Update 2025–01–14: I downloaded another copy. This one was up to date.

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Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀
Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀

Written by Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀

Retired Unix Consultant. I write tech and humor mostly but sometimes other things. See my Lists if your interests are specific.

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