Can I get a deleted part of a collection back?

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Samuel Johnson

June 10, 2019 16:17

A site that has been crawled changed its URL.  I deleted the old seed without realizing that I may have deleted that part of a collection.  I thought that what had been crawled in the past would still be up on the public facing site but it looks like it disappeared.  I can access it through wayback but I would like to know how I can put the old stuff back on the public facing collection site.

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  Karl Blumenthal June 10, 2019 16:33

  Good question, Samuel! In this case you should be able to add the seed URL to your collection as if it were any new seed, and in return you will see it then lead to the desired Wayback captures, both from your internal seed list and the public-facing access point (the latter will just need an extra moment to update). You can add any URL to your collection as a seed in order to get this kind of quick "shortcut" to captures already within your collection, even if you haven't run any fresh crawls. That should do the trick! But let us know if you see any obstacles.

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  Samuel Johnson June 11, 2019 19:19

  Thanks!

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  Aedin Clements March 30, 2023 16:16

  Thanks for this. I just deleted a few seeds, thinking I no longer needed them, and then realized my mistake. So I'll enter those urls in my seed list again.

   

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