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Jun 18th, 2012 at 11:46pm
 
there was an old topic that i started that came up in the news again recently and i have been trying to get hold of it by looking in my profile..no luck..anybody know how to find your old posts or do we just have to dig?...lol...thanks guys.
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Reply #1 - Jun 19th, 2012 at 7:28am
 
brumbie wrote on Jun 18th, 2012 at 11:46pm:
there was an old topic that i started that came up in the news again recently and i have been trying to get hold of it by looking in my profile..no luck..anybody know how to find your old posts or do we just have to dig?...lol...thanks guys.


Yeah the problem with this forum is you cant search for the topic only words in the posts.

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Reply #2 - Jun 19th, 2012 at 8:02pm
 
This allows you to search for words in the thread title:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=search

You can choose to search your own posts via the tick boxes or also someone else's. Make sure you choose "posted in by someone" in the dropdown box.
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Reply #3 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 6:56am
 
Thanks guys...got there.
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Reply #4 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 7:00am
 
freediver wrote on Jun 19th, 2012 at 8:02pm:
This allows you to search for words in the thread title:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=search

You can choose to search your own posts via the tick boxes or also someone else's. Make sure you choose "posted in by someone" in the dropdown box.



Aha - thanks

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Reply #5 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 7:02am
 
freediver wrote on Jun 19th, 2012 at 8:02pm:
This allows you to search for words in the thread title:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?action=search

You can choose to search your own posts via the tick boxes or also someone else's. Make sure you choose "posted in by someone" in the dropdown box.


Is this search exhaustive or is it limited in some way? I've used the search function in the past and it seemed to find only recent posts.
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Reply #6 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 7:05am
 
Just had another look. It is limited to 15 posts. Is there any reason for this?
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Reply #7 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 7:12am
 
MOTR wrote on Jun 20th, 2012 at 7:05am:
Just had another look. It is limited to 15 posts. Is there any reason for this?


Huh @ 15 posts . .. .

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Reply #8 - Jun 20th, 2012 at 8:54am
 
It's often easier (and MUCH quicker!) just to use google to do the search instead of the inbuilt search facility. You can tell google to search this site only by including

site:ozpolitic.com

in your search terms. For example:

Quote:
going in circles site:ozpolitic.com


Returned this thread as the first hit.

You may not find stuff that's been posted very recently (anything from the last hour to maybe the last day) but google usually keeps up to date pretty well.
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Reply #9 - Jun 22nd, 2012 at 3:50am
 
Thanks, Gist. That's a really useful tip.
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Reply #10 - Jun 22nd, 2012 at 2:53pm
 
yeah the inbuilt search facility is absolute trash on this site

15 results? what?

it also takes forever to find anything
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Reply #11 - Jun 22nd, 2012 at 3:15pm
 
It restricts you to retrieving no more than the last 25 posts rather than 15.  A bit odd, given that most forums will give you everything back to post number one - must just be a limitation of the software that they're using.

You should be able to find it using Google though - just put in your user name and a couple of key words from the post and it should come up in the results.
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Reply #12 - Jun 22nd, 2012 at 7:10pm
 
Frances wrote on Jun 22nd, 2012 at 3:15pm:
It restricts you to retrieving no more than the last 25 posts rather than 15.  A bit odd, given that most forums will give you everything back to post number one - must just be a limitation of the software that they're using.

You should be able to find it using Google though - just put in your user name and a couple of key words from the post and it should come up in the results.


It's a limitation of the forum. In previous versions, it was possible to post any value. They decided to limit this to 25 when they came up with YaBB 2.4 as a spam protection script. Previously you could insert any figure and it could bring the forum down to a crawl if several spambots fif the same thing.  25 seems like a low figure though.

There is a simple edit that can work around it, but it's up to FD if he wants to go that way.
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