Search option still not working fully!

[Legendary Apophis]

Still can't manage to find any post older than 2007 with search option, quite annoying when you look up for old complete sgw calculators or historical posts/references.

[Spacey]

Are you sure you are using it correctly? I searched for your posts and found the earliest to be:

Posted: 11 Jan 2006 12:40

When we moved over to phpbb 3.0, as far as I know, the entire forum didn't move with us due to the time it would have taken, effort, etc. Some sections got more of their history than others, again, as far as I know.

At any rate, I just searched for your old posts and came up with one from 2006.

[Zeratul]

there was a while ago run a refreshing of the search feature... so it should work...

[hidden]

i notice when im trying to find old posts i search for it but it doesn't come up

i have to search for it manually so whats up with that?

[Spacey]

i notice when im trying to find old posts i search for it but it doesn't come up

i have to search for it manually so whats up with that?

Can you be more descriptive? Right now no one is giving steps about what they did that didn't work.

You are trying to find your old posts? I found your oldest here at "Posted: 23 Jun 2005 13:10"? What do you mean when you say searching manually?

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i notice when im trying to find old posts i search for it but it doesn't come up

i have to search for it manually so whats up with that?

Can you be more descriptive? Right now no one is giving steps about what they did that didn't work.

You are trying to find your old posts? I found your oldest here at "Posted: 23 Jun 2005 13:10"? What do you mean when you say searching manually?

i mean i actually had to go to the place in the archive where my post was and look through a number of long threads to find it

when i click search posts i put in the part im searching for and it doesn't come up

only when i actually go there and look for it manually can i find it

so basically when i click the search posts it only ever comes up with recent ones

edit: just so you know that wasn't my first post

my first post is missing

[Spacey]

i mean i actually had to go to the place in the archive where my post was and look through a number of long threads to find it

This is what I did to find your oldest post here.

1.) click on search
2.) enter "hidden" into the "Search for author:" field
3.) in the "Search in forums:" area I clicked on "General" while holding down the shift key
4.) while holding the shift key I scrolled down the entire menu ("Search in forums:" selection area) using the scroll bar and clicked on "TGW Annual Awards"; you should notice that all areas are now selected
5.) I made no changers to searching for "posts" or "threads"
6.) click on the "Search" button
7.) scroll down to the bottom of the page
8.) click on "277" in the "go to page" selection area
9.) scroll down to the bottom of the page: to the last post
10.) click on "Jump to post" beside the name "hidden"
11.) you should see it take you to the post, link below

viewtopic.php?f=103&t=3808&p=36343#p36343

Using this method I didn't have to go through hundreds of posts. I was taken to all of yours, and narrowed it down myself.

You said,

when i click search posts i put in the part im searching for and it doesn't come up

what are you entering in the search fields? what order are you entering them in? I need to know the details if I can try to help.

I'm not sure what is wrong with searching for you and Apophis in looking for old posts/topics, but it works for me. If you have time to include more details it would be helpful.

[Juliette]

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:27 am

*THE* oldest post.
Available to the average user, that is.

[Juliette]

Yea.. see.. that's what I meant.
I think I saw that one back in my mod day.
Pun intended.

[Juliette]

:lol:

There's lots from that time in the Dump *heads over to the mod station*



Oh looky what I found! The oldest post on the forum!

Wednesday December 31st 1969 18:00:00

It's older then me, it's older then Forum, hell it's even old then The Namer of Temples!

That's not older than Forum, smartie.

[Legendary Apophis]

No I mean with SEARCH, not see posts by user

search.php

finding for example my MS topic suggestion from apr 05, you wont find it unless you go to my account apophis (tm) then go to last pages...quite annoying thouh

[Juliette]

Oh yeah? The Namer of Temples is the oldest one here, and it's older then him.(I'm talking about furom/game start date wise)

That explains it. >_<

And Jim.. I have no idea what you're asking.
You can find that just by looking for "Motherships" "Apophis".


Edit: Actually, you can't. That's interesting.. and I apologise for not understanding at first.

[Legendary Apophis]

With normal search you can't find anything older than june 2007 (excepted the characters hitory sometimes)

[Spacey]

With normal search you can't find anything older than june 2007 (excepted the characters hitory sometimes)

what is a normal search?

did I not do that in my past post?

[hidden]

With normal search you can't find anything older than june 2007 (excepted the characters hitory sometimes)

what is a normal search?

did I not do that in my past post?

no it isn't

click on a persons name in the forum and it will have various information like how many posts they made per day

when click search users posts

then in the top right it will it will have a place to type what your searching for and you wont be able to find any old posts