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zedsalt	Date: April 29, 2008 @ 8:01 AM I'm trying to locate a thread I started a few years ago (that's part of the problem- I can't recall just how many years). It was in the Promotions forum, and the title was three (I think) acts I'd been compared to in comments here. All of the little tricks I know to narrow down search results aren't working. What would be the best way to find this thread?
Tattoomom	Date: April 29, 2008 @ 8:03 AM You could go back page by page until you find it.
GeneHilbert	Date: April 29, 2008 @ 10:19 AM OR cut to the case and search the most appropriate categories.
Israfel	Date: April 29, 2008 @ 4:44 PM Try searching your name... it should bring up all forums you ever posted anything in...maybe that will get it.
Cryxan	Date: April 29, 2008 @ 8:55 PM This method might take a while, but if you really want to find it... Go to your userpage. Click on the Activity tab. Click on "Next 10 forum comments." The url of that page will be this: http://zedsalt.dmusic.net/comments?&show=forum&fo=10&fl=10 That final 10 is the number of comments that will be displayed per page. Add a 0 to make it 100. (Any number higher than that will only result in 100.) You can now go to the bottom and click on "Next 100 posts" and scan 100 forum thread titles at a time. Of course, you want to go back a few years. The url looks like this: http://zedsalt.dmusic.net/comments?&show=forum&fo=110&fl=100 The 110 near the end of it is how far back you're displaying. Change it to 2110, and you're 2 years back. Then it's all up to you and your patience. This works best if you can think of the least active member who posted in the thread, and do the above on their userpage.
Cryxan	Date: April 29, 2008 @ 9:00 PM Also, if it's a thread you know you started, you can scan the list faster because the thread title will not have a "Re:" in front of it.
zedsalt	Date: April 30, 2008 @ 3:21 AM Thanks! It's a bummer there's no quick and easy way, but this will make it MUCH quicker and easier.
Cryxan	Date: April 30, 2008 @ 9:28 AM lol glad to help.
zedsalt	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 3:27 AM This would make another good item for a DMusic user's guide; I know I'm going to print it out for future reference! It took me...maybe ten minutes, probably less, to find that thread using Cryxan's advice. I compare that to the hours I spent composing the original and/or the time it would've taken me going back ten posts at a time, and all I can say is "thanks again".
Tattoomom	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 12:37 PM aw man! You didn't want to use MY method?
Cryxan	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 9:23 PM

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