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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:47 pm    Post subject: [solved] Posts disappearing Reply with quote

I often use the View Your Posts button as a way to reference problems I'm solved. I've noticed that some of my posts have started to disappear. Is there some sort of cleanup cycle where some posts get deleted?

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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, we don't delete posts; it's just that the "View My Posts" search only looks for posts in the last 8 weeks. :)
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's correct. I don't know the time frame for the purge cycle, but they do get purged after a time.

If you are looking for one of your posts, search for posts with your username in the 'author' field.

CORRECTION: As the moderator has indicated, they don't get deleted.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Use this url
https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_author=urbanomad
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is thers are reason for this 'restriction' on "view my posts"?
EDIT: Awesome link, thanks
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

coolsnowmen wrote:
Is thers are reason for this 'restriction' on "view my posts"?
EDIT: Awesome link, thanks



Yes, basically to save server resources.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And somewhere between the message counts of for example pilla and NeddySeagoon, search_author does not return all the posts.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

limn wrote:
And somewhere between the message counts of for example pilla and NeddySeagoon, search_author does not return all the posts.


That search is limited due to the size that can be held in the search results cache table.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it make sense to have that search fill the cache with those most recent first?
Perhaps there are practical and technical considerations. Not many have so many posts.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

limn wrote:
Does it make sense to have that search fill the cache with those most recent first?
Perhaps there are practical and technical considerations. Not many have so many posts.


Hmm, I thought it did that already, obviously not. I'll fix it and include it in the next upgrade.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomk wrote:
I'll fix it and include it in the next upgrade.

Thank you for making the fix.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:56 am    Post subject: Wher are my old posts? Reply with quote

I'm having a problem with my system that is similar to a problem that I had discussed on th forums earlier this year, so I logged in and clicked 'View your posts'. It only returned the three most recent posts--not the one that I'm looking for. What's up with that? Did my post from July/June get archived? If so is there an archive that I can look at?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_author=kramer2718

The quick link "View your posts" appears to only go back to Aug. 20 currently. (~60 days?)
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Merged a thread starting here from GFF.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:23 pm    Post subject: "view your posts" so many missing Reply with quote

hello,
I regularly get back to posts I've sent, to check the described issues and given solutions, by clicking on the "view your post" link, but only very few appear. I get some others of mine when I fill the search engine with my name.... Have the others been removed or deleted ?

Edit: Merged here from GFF. --Maedhros
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_author=author_name
worked just fine ! Thanx!!
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