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looking up a specific thread in the previous forum
I have been a ReadyNAS user for a LONG time. I used the old/previous forum quite extensively. I have many links that I saved that I would refer to from time to time and I need to refer to them agai...
I remember the topic, and I've searched for a couple of hours but can't find exactly what I'm looking for. But in general, I have done a lot of research in the past and embedded a lot of "old forum" links into my research that were pretty specific to what I'd been looking for at the time. Not having access to the orignial posting is highly inconvenient.
Do I understand that the old forum data was not brought forward into this new forum, and that the old forum data is not accessible in any way (even if simply an archive with a different URL)?
The old posts should have been transferred here but it might have been included with the cleanup that is why it is not showing.
We may be able to check the archive but cannot promise anything. It would be best if you can start a new thread so the community can help you with the information you need to have.
HTH
So, assuming the old posts are not available in an archive (pehaps by simply changing the domain name or etc. of the orignial URL), should there be a way to find the messages that transfered to the new forum by adding something additional to the link or maybe putting the old message number into an entirely newly formatted link using the new forum URL, etc. (for a direct referene to the message to avoid resorting to a new forum search on what I think might have been in the original message, which I won't have for most of my preserved links)?
kenalker1 wrote:
So, assuming the old posts are not available in an archive (pehaps by simply changing the domain name or etc. of the orignial URL), should there be a way to find the messages that transfered to the new forum by adding something additional to the link or maybe putting the old message number into an entirely newly formatted link using the new forum URL, etc. (for a direct referene to the message to avoid resorting to a new forum search on what I think might have been in the original message, which I won't have for most of my preserved links)?
I don't know of any way to map the old forum (f=11) or thread (t=18253) indices to posts in the current forum.
If you are trying to find them using the forum search function, stop wasting your time. It is abominable -- worse than useless because it gives so many unrelated results without finding the related ones. Use Google or your favorite Internet search engine for better results.
Some (but not all) of the posts were captured by wayback.com. For instance, you can browse a (partial) archive of the old forum at https://web.archive.org/web/20150207090413/http://www.readynas.com/forum/index.php
Wayback is not easy to search. Your particular example is listed on this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20111117191204/http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=11&start=50 It's the thread titled "Using multiple credentials to connect to your NAS". Unfortunately the thread itself wasn't archived by Wayback, so you won't be able to read if you click on the entry.
It would be sometimes be nice to be able to access that stuff. But it is really old - your example thread was active between May 2008 and June 2010.
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