Still a lost message re slate floor
Still searching for my lost message re preparing a base for laying a slate porch floor. Obviously I am doing something wrong–I find it for a moment, and then it’s gone. Please advise how I can retrieve and post.
Apparently I must appeal to ALL, since the program just informs me there is no member named SYSOP.
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http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=42988.1
The reason you keep losing the thread is that it is removed from the index when you have read all the messages in it. So after you posted it, when you came back to look for it, it was gone, because you had already read all the messages in it. Then this morning, Sam T posted another message to it to bump it up in the index. You saw his message, and after that, it disappeared again because you had read all the messages in the thread.
You don't have to find the thread to see if anyone has responded to it. If anyone posts another message to it, it will appear in the index again. (The only caveat is that if a lot of messages are posted to other threads after the post to your thread, your thread might get pushed off the first page of the index, but it would still be visible on the second or subsequent page of the index.)
If you need to find a thread even though no one has posted to it, say if you want to edit it, click on the folder name, Construction Techniques in this case, which will bring up all the threads in the folder, read, unread, and ignored. If the last message to your thread was posted within the last few days, it will probably be in the first fifty. When I just now did this, your thread was the 6th item in the folder. If you don't find it in the first page, scroll down to the 'Next 50' link. It is after all the folders, not just the one you're searching in. Threads stay in the folder they were posted in for about 3 months after the last message, when they are moved to the Archive folder. I think.
If you don't find it in the folder, click on the Advanced Search button near the top of the left hand frame. Enter your search term, slate in this case. Go down to the Order by: field and select 'Newest first'. When I just now did this, your thread was the first item in the results. Messages are not indexed into the search database immediately, so there is some delay, probably not more than a few hours, before you can find a thread this way.
In the left field, see the little window for show. Click the down arrow to show the drop down menu. Select "All" instead of unread messages.
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