Ghost-of-a-Chance

I have a problem with my adultness too, I no longer like being an adult...

You’re officially awesome.

I’m hoping I Bat-signaled DG, who has been working ridiculous hours in her real-life job. But if there’s a way to reorder things, she’ll be able to tell us. 
I adore snark, have been known to waffle the easiest things online (while managing to execute far more complex tasks without any apparent effort, and I refer to my life as “Issues-R-Us” because, well, it is. Insanity was the only logical response, I think.
And you’re welcome! Now let’s see if I can find a solution, which would be truly helpful!  

Okay, so this one’s either the result of:
Updating while half-conscious from pain medicine while awaiting extraction of a particularly painful wisdom tooth, or The consequence of several mini blonde moments combining into one super-mega blonde moment. Apparently while updating A New Lease on Life I...missed...a couple chapters...and I just realized they’re missing...roughly twenty uploaded chapters later. If I hadn’t noticed that the numbers in the titles and on the chapter list were matching up even worse than usual, I may never have noticed. (I include a short Prologue with long-haul stories like this one so the chapters always run a number or two behind the automatic site numbering, but the discrepancy here was clearly off.) I completely missed those two chaps, or perhaps they didn’t upload properly because I fell asleep at the keyboard...again.
Yeah. Not one of my finer moments as a writer, but fortunately, it’s not one of my worst, either, since the word “moist” didn’t come into play.
 
Anyway, I’ve gone back, edited the two missing chapters in Word, and uploaded them to the site, but they automatically uploaded to the end of the list and I haven’t found a way to reorder the chapters. It’s possible I’m just missing the option (I’m severely under-rested and equally under-caffeinated) and I wanted to ask around before resorting to deleting EVERYTHING back to the missing chapters and re-uploading everything one-by-one. Is there a way to get my chapters back in their proper order quickly and painlessly, or is the delete/reupload thing my only shot at fixing this? (Not gonna lie – if that’s my only option I’m probably gonna need a nap and a drink first...and it’ll take a week or longer...and I’m probably gonna cry like a ninny from frustration before I’m done.)
 
Story in question: A New Lease on Life - http://cartoon.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600095128&chapter=1
[ automatic numbering – actual chapter number: Title ]
Chapters uploaded in correct order: 1 – Prologue through 23 – 22: Borrowed Words Missed Chapter:    – 23: The Truth Can Hurt Uploaded in correct order: 24 – 24: Plans and Promises and 25 – 25: Loyalty Wears Many Faces Missed Chapter:    – 26: Renovation, Revelation, Realization Uploaded in correct order: 26 – 27: A Taste Without Tears through  47 – 48: Did I Have a Dream, or Did the Dream Have Me? The two missing chapters have uploaded at the end of the chapter list; I’ve marked them with “OOPS” in the titles. If anyone can help me fix this foul-up or advise me on how to do so, I’d be most appreciative.
 
...off the record, my naturally blond husband wants to bleach my hair to give my “blonde moments” some legitimacy. I’m far too brunette to get away with them when he never has any.

BronxWench – yes, I was able to get the chapter reposted with edits done in Word. Thank you for your advice. I also restarted after the crash because my computer was running slower than our landlady during office hours. (Read “It was basically just sitting on its butt and getting paid for it.”)
It doesn’t surprise me that the chapter loss was probably related to the crash; I had a feeling it was. The situation happened because I had Spotify open, one of the cats decided he needed Mommy-time right now so hand it up, he plopped his tush right on the keyboard, and somehow he managed to click the touchpad on the obnoxious ad I’d muted. This opened a new tab in the browser, (already open) the tab froze, the other tabs froze and stopped responding, then the browser crashed completely. Chances are there was nothing malicious about the ad or site – my computer’s a ‘12 or ‘14, if I’m remembering correctly, and tends to not tolerate gifs and videos worth a lick, and my antivirus hasn’t made a peep. The page probably just had too many of those new-fangled moving talking pictures on it and ol’ lady Toshiba said “No witchcraft here.”
Geez, JayDee, that stinks! Hate having to rewrite things entirely, and for it to be a long review? That had to be so frustrating! Honestly, I was lucky in this instance–I’m importing these chapters from another site and editing before posting, not typing them directly into the post box. Sure, I lost a lot of corrections, formatting, and scene expansions, but the chapter itself was already backed up. Since this, I’ve been doing edits in Word (like I should have all along, TBH) and posting them after backing them up. If I’d lost the chapter completely, as in without any backups? Yeah, I’d probably be a lot more upset. (like “Where’s my Scotch, I’m about to start cussing a blue streak” upset) As it is, a cup of tea and cuddling the cat was enough.
No, “Woozle” didn’t get in any trouble for sitting on the keyboard – he got a treat. It was my fault for being on the computer instead of spoiling him. I’m a good people-servant.

Firefox is pretty good for me with AFF, but I always try and type stuff into a doc before posting. Even reviews. The last long review I wrote I didn’t and lost it! Had to re-write it. Gotta be much worse with stories.

I’ve poked around a bit, and I think it was linked to the previous crash. Firefox has been stable for us lately—there were builds a few years back that were gruesome with our archive code but they seem to have gotten past that. But when a browser crashes, I always recommend a full shutdown of the computer and a restart. I use Chrome, and while it’s very rare that it crashes, if I don’t do the full shutdown of my computer, everything is glitchy until I do so.
I’m so sorry this happened, but hopefully you’ll be able to post the edited chapter successfully once you’re done with the edits in Word.

Hi,
I’m not seeing any staff action for your story, so that’s not the issue. I’m also not seeing your Chapter 37 either. There isn’t a queue for new chapters to be uploaded, so it isn’t that. And unfortunately, we wouldn’t be able to recover anything you tried to post.
As far as the technical details go, which browser do you use? Historically speaking, we have the most issues with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but even browsers which generally work can have moments.

BronxWench – yes, I was able to get the chapter reposted with edits done in Word. Thank you for your advice. I also restarted after the crash because my computer was running slower than our landlady during office hours. (Read “It was basically just sitting on its butt and getting paid for it.”)
It doesn’t surprise me that the chapter loss was probably related to the crash; I had a feeling it was. The situation happened because I had Spotify open, one of the cats decided he needed Mommy-time right now so hand it up, he plopped his tush right on the keyboard, and somehow he managed to click the touchpad on the obnoxious ad I’d muted. This opened a new tab in the browser, (already open) the tab froze, the other tabs froze and stopped responding, then the browser crashed completely. Chances are there was nothing malicious about the ad or site – my computer’s a ‘12 or ‘14, if I’m remembering correctly, and tends to not tolerate gifs and videos worth a lick, and my antivirus hasn’t made a peep. The page probably just had too many of those new-fangled moving talking pictures on it and ol’ lady Toshiba said “No witchcraft here.”
Geez, JayDee, that stinks! Hate having to rewrite things entirely, and for it to be a long review? That had to be so frustrating! Honestly, I was lucky in this instance–I’m importing these chapters from another site and editing before posting, not typing them directly into the post box. Sure, I lost a lot of corrections, formatting, and scene expansions, but the chapter itself was already backed up. Since this, I’ve been doing edits in Word (like I should have all along, TBH) and posting them after backing them up. If I’d lost the chapter completely, as in without any backups? Yeah, I’d probably be a lot more upset. (like “Where’s my Scotch, I’m about to start cussing a blue streak” upset) As it is, a cup of tea and cuddling the cat was enough.
No, “Woozle” didn’t get in any trouble for sitting on the keyboard – he got a treat. It was my fault for being on the computer instead of spoiling him. I’m a good people-servant.