NOTICE: We are running maintenance and pruning the forums this week and next. If there are any Topics or Posts you want to keep, please save them asap, as they may be deleted. WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO KEEP THE FORUMS UP AND RUNNING. HOWEVER, THERE MAY BE TIMES DURING THIS PROCESS WHEN THEY ARE DOWN. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.
So if you want to save your threads here is how.
Find the thread you want Click on Topic options in upper left corner Then print options Then print to a file rather than paper
Hope that helps
DB Mod or Virginia It would be nice if we knew what the parameters for the purge were.
One last thing, when you indicate print to file, you might want to change it to a "txt" file. I tried it both ways and opted for the "txt" file.
Sit quietly, the answers will reveal themselves when you least expect them to. The past is gone, the present is a gift and you need to focus on today, allow the future to reveal itself when it is ready.
Also if you are looking for another posters threads this method will help
It is what I use to find people here on DB.
How to find a user on DB
Go up to MY STUFF Click on Watch List Click on Watched Users Click on Edit Watched Users Click on Add a user to list Type in user - "Never Give UP" Select her as a watched user. Click on her name Click on show all posts. Click on Topics
The last 3 steps will work for finding your own threads too.
It appears they were really indiscriminate with the database purge. I don't really see a pattern, either; some forums have posts going back over a year, others going back to August 10th. Some forums are 15 pages long, others 3 or 4. I'm sure they came up with some metric for deletion, but it's not obvious from a cursory glance.
I guess this needs to be taken as a reminder that this is a discussion forum and not a library. Either that, or there needs to be a push to have valuable reference posts or threads moved to an archive. Or maybe someone needs to set up a website to archive this stuff for future reference off-site.
At least they warned us the purge was going to happen well in advance. I've been part of communities where they gave no advanced warning to speak of; the admin would make a post in the announcements forum, and old posts would just be gone. Hopefully enough people saved those reference posts and threads to be able to piece them back together.
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NOTICE: We are running maintenance and pruning the forums this week and next. If there are any Topics or Posts you want to keep, please save them asap, as they may be deleted. WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO KEEP THE FORUMS UP AND RUNNING. HOWEVER, THERE MAY BE TIMES DURING THIS PROCESS WHEN THEY ARE DOWN. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.
So if you want to save your threads here is how.
Find the thread you want Click on Topic options in upper left corner Then print options Then print to a file rather than paper
Hope that helps
DB Mod or Virginia It would be nice if we knew what the parameters for the purge were.
Thanks
Cadet,
I'll never be able to thank you enough for posting this. When I read this thread this morning, I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that all of my old stuff was gone (it wasn't, thankfully). I just spent the past hour archiving all of my "Chocolateeyes" threads that I initiated, and will do the same with my "Puppy Dog Tails" ones when I get some time today, and then "Starsky" (yeah yeah, I know. . . . doesn't DB say to "create mystique?" )
Still, this process only captures stuff by THREAD. Many folks' best advice came on OTHER people's threads, so I hope all of that is not lost. There's really no way to capture all of it.
I'd love to say this is a "server storage" issue, but I suspect it's something entirely different.
Thanks again for the heads up, and the helpful how-to!!
I'll never be able to thank you enough for posting this. When I read this thread this morning, I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that all of my old stuff was gone (it wasn't, thankfully). I just spent the past hour archiving all of my "Chocolateeyes" threads that I initiated, and will do the same with my "Puppy Dog Tails" ones when I get some time today, and then "Starsky" (yeah yeah, I know. . . . doesn't DB say to "create mystique?" )
Still, this process only captures stuff by THREAD. Many folks' best advice came on OTHER people's threads, so I hope all of that is not lost. There's really no way to capture all of it.
I'd love to say this is a "server storage" issue, but I suspect it's something entirely different.
Thanks again for the heads up, and the helpful how-to!!
Choc/Puppy/Starsky
Glad to hear your threads are still here, although as you stated in your previous post
Originally Posted By: Starsky309
Originally Posted By: BklynMom
very sad
And yet very typical.
You have lived through enough of these that you are spot on with that comment.
I am actually surprised that Chocolateeyes is still intact. Their are other users that are totally gone.
Something interesting is an old topic that I bumped up last week is now gone including my brand new post. That seems very strange.
Anyways thanks for the feedback and glad you saved your old stuff, I have read most of it and it is worth saving.
. . . doesn't DB say to "create mystique?" )