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Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by Aidan25 » Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:45 pm

I've suffered this problem for the last 4 months. The good thing is that you can still see some old posts and the addresses are still there in the database. I saved some addresses of rock musicians at the beginning of the year and I was really happy to find these addresses from the posts that are now deleted. Make a word document now with addresses of people you wish to send to.

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by StevenQ » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:02 pm

striker20 wrote:Yeah, it's really frustrating that so many posts got lost. Someone posted an Edward James Olmos success at the end of last year and I would like him to sign my BSG group photo, but I don't know which address to send to because I can't access that success anymore.
I remember the EJO success and I'm sure it was sent to the Olmos Prod. address in the database. I'm looking to send to him and get Bodie's as well.

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by AzkabanPrisoner » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:13 am

velvetgold wrote:Yeah, I tried to search for a bunch of things.. really ****. But I will try and do that Google thing, THANKS for the tip!
No problem!^^

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by velvetgold » Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:38 am

Yeah, I tried to search for a bunch of things.. really sucks. But I will try and do that Google thing, THANKS for the tip!

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by striker20 » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:08 am

dfreely wrote:
striker20 wrote:Thanks for the tip, but do I need a special tool for that?
No, the link is right in the Google results. It's the blue link that says "Cached" next to the URL.

The problem with the cached pages however is that they will update. When the forum first crashed, using Google's cache worked well, but now that a lot of time has passed, Google is beginning to cache the "The requested topic does not exist" pages.
Thanks for the explanation. It does work that way, but it's just my luck that there isn't such a link for the one success I was looking for. :(

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by dfreely » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:50 pm

If you use Firefox or Chrome, there are probably plugins available that would allow you to use Google's cache via a context menu (right-clicking a link) which would speed things up. But as previously mentioned, Google will ultimately recache all those lost pages, so it isn't going to work forever.

The old pages can't be recovered because the data crashed and no backups were made, which is rather odd given the size of this forum.

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by george2607 » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:39 pm

I just tried the google thing and it works,a bit of extra work but you can get the info. My question to admin is, why can't they go get them and bring them back home?? Not being an IT type it seems like it could be done??? :?

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by dfreely » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:21 pm

striker20 wrote:Thanks for the tip, but do I need a special tool for that?
No, the link is right in the Google results. It's the blue link that says "Cached" next to the URL.

The problem with the cached pages however is that they will update. When the forum first crashed, using Google's cache worked well, but now that a lot of time has passed, Google is beginning to cache the "The requested topic does not exist" pages.

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by george2607 » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:15 pm

of course we have, Read my posts on the subject. I still feel we are being let down by admin on this but if the pots are lost they are lost but they site needs to be updated to take them out as options.

I know I said I would not say any more about this but it has been a long time so come on guys get it sorted. PLEASE!!!!!

Re: Is anybody else having trouble with the forums

by striker20 » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:54 pm

AzkabanPrisoner wrote:Perhaps you guys already know this, but if you search e.g. "*nameofactor* fanmailbiz sucess" in google and choose to open the results in cache, you'll be able to view the page! Works for me anyway.

Hope this helps!
Thanks for the tip, but do I need a special tool for that?

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