Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
I thought I'd started a discussion thread in News & Announcements, but just found out I can't add more information. Never posted there, I guess it's just a bulletin board? wthww has done wonders here, but it's not a paid gig and real life takes precedence. Recovery is on the list. In the meantime:
Good news: Threads don't appear to be lost, they're unsearchable a/o links to them are merely broken.
Bad news: It's a PITA to find them, but there are a few ways to hack the world as we know it! :approve:
So I guess this is the place for recovering lost threads in the Hacks and Development forum, which is what's been going on to date.
Search methods roughly outlined in my PM thread summary here: The Lost Threads: informal topic recovery methodology
If you've ever uploaded an attachment to a thread that you can no longer find with the search tools:
1 - click on your username at the top of the page, opening the dropdown menu
2 - choose "My Attachments"
3 - search through the images/pages of images or attachments
4 - there should be a link to the POST to which you uploaded the attachment.
5 - if the relationship is borked, you'll get the message:
No locations to display. The content may not have been saved yet or may have been deleted.
If you've ever posted in a thread that you can no longer find with the search tools:
1 - click on your username at the top of the page, opening the dropdown menu
2 - choose "Profile" to open it
3 - click "My Activity" button
4 - search through the pages of your posts until you hit pay dirt, having a rough idea of the timeline helps
If you've read, but never posted in or uploaded to a thread you can no longer find with the search tools:
Looks like you're SOL, however:
1 - ask someone you recall having participated in the thread to search for it with one of the methods above
2 - if still around, the OP may have a good idea about what date range they should search for you
If you can find a link to the thread of interest and it's borked:
1 - recover the thread title from the link
2 - go to Google (they've had a bot online here from about day 12)
3 - as dougg3 did, search the likes of "PEx ROM Project" (including the quotes)
So far it's looking like relationships of links to lost TOPICS are borked, but relationships to POSTS to them in activity logs are not . . .
. . . or some such. If you come up with another way to search the Lost Threads, please post it. If you find one, please bump it! Dunno if that'll help mend anything, haven't come up with a test for that. So far the only way I've been able to link to a thread is by linking to the first post after having found something. If I go the Google route, then I can link to the hit, but sometimes that's not a hit for the first page!
So it goes. :blink:
Good news: Threads don't appear to be lost, they're unsearchable a/o links to them are merely broken.
Bad news: It's a PITA to find them, but there are a few ways to hack the world as we know it! :approve:
So I guess this is the place for recovering lost threads in the Hacks and Development forum, which is what's been going on to date.
Search methods roughly outlined in my PM thread summary here: The Lost Threads: informal topic recovery methodology
If you've ever uploaded an attachment to a thread that you can no longer find with the search tools:
1 - click on your username at the top of the page, opening the dropdown menu
2 - choose "My Attachments"
3 - search through the images/pages of images or attachments
4 - there should be a link to the POST to which you uploaded the attachment.
5 - if the relationship is borked, you'll get the message:
No locations to display. The content may not have been saved yet or may have been deleted.
If you've ever posted in a thread that you can no longer find with the search tools:
1 - click on your username at the top of the page, opening the dropdown menu
2 - choose "Profile" to open it
3 - click "My Activity" button
4 - search through the pages of your posts until you hit pay dirt, having a rough idea of the timeline helps
If you've read, but never posted in or uploaded to a thread you can no longer find with the search tools:
Looks like you're SOL, however:
1 - ask someone you recall having participated in the thread to search for it with one of the methods above
2 - if still around, the OP may have a good idea about what date range they should search for you
If you can find a link to the thread of interest and it's borked:
1 - recover the thread title from the link
2 - go to Google (they've had a bot online here from about day 12)
3 - as dougg3 did, search the likes of "PEx ROM Project" (including the quotes)
So far it's looking like relationships of links to lost TOPICS are borked, but relationships to POSTS to them in activity logs are not . . .
. . . or some such. If you come up with another way to search the Lost Threads, please post it. If you find one, please bump it! Dunno if that'll help mend anything, haven't come up with a test for that. So far the only way I've been able to link to a thread is by linking to the first post after having found something. If I go the Google route, then I can link to the hit, but sometimes that's not a hit for the first page!
So it goes. :blink:
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), but I found on the Wayback Machine the 68kMLA forums as they existed shortly before the Great Crash of '07 (I wasn't here when that happened, but apparently much information was irreparably lost).
