 sj |
||
|
||
BS: How to 'Refresh'?
|
|
|
Subject: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: GUEST,beachcomber Date: 16 Dec 06 - 11:44 AM Pardon my lack of technical expertise (I still even wash-up by hand) but sometimes when I post a new thread I am unable to get to my Computer for a day or two and when I do, find that it has "slipped off" the forum. How then do I recall it to see if any invaluable advice or info has been granted by the more knowledgable among you ?? please! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Tweed Date: 16 Dec 06 - 11:47 AM Refresh |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: John MacKenzie Date: 16 Dec 06 - 11:49 AM Use the arrow to the right of the Filter Window, choose the number of days you want and click refresh G |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: artbrooks Date: 16 Dec 06 - 11:50 AM Beachcomber, go to the "refresh filter" block in the upper center of the "Lyrics and Knowledge" screen and reset it to "3 days" (or whatever floats your boat). Earlier messages that have slipped away will then be visible. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Jeri Date: 16 Dec 06 - 11:52 AM He wants to FIND the thread. If you were a member, you could 'trace' the thread. You can make the thread a favorite/bookmark. I have a 'Temp' bookmarks file. You can type a distinctive word from the title of the thread into the 'Filter' box, and set the time for far enough back. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: John MacKenzie Date: 16 Dec 06 - 11:55 AM Surely he knows what day he posted it on Jeri? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Jeri Date: 16 Dec 06 - 12:05 PM Giok, huh? I don't always remember how long ago I started a thread, but I still don't get why that's important, so long as the time period for the search goes back far enough. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Dec 06 - 01:39 PM Or if you click on your name at the top of any post, a clickable list of all your previous posts will come up. That applies even when you aren't a member. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Big Mick Date: 16 Dec 06 - 01:55 PM Another one that is used my more 'Catters all the time is the 'Messages since last Visit' option. On any given day, when you are done, just go to the 'Quick links' box at the top middle-left part of the page. Hit the drop down arrow and go down to the 'Messages since last visit' box. This will take you to a page that (starting at the bottom of the page moving up) shows all posts since you last reset it. So at the end of a session, just hit the 'reset your last visit to now' button. It is located at the top and bottom of the page. In this way, when you come back to the Mudcat, just use the quick links to again go back to this page and you will see all posts that occurred after the last reset. Works very nicely. I have the 'messages since last visit' set to be my entry point into Mudcat. I can pick right up where I left off. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: John MacKenzie Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:09 PM There's always the 'Trace' option, I have threads preserved for years back in my file. Just click on Trace on the extreme right hand side, You probably have to be a member to use it though! G. Jeri I have those 'senior moments' too. ;o) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Black Beauty Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:19 PM Thanks I had that problem too. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Dec 06 - 03:37 PM The Mudcat really is a pretty clever playground. I'm still finding new wrinkles after all these years. I was in a museum yesterday, the Wallace Collection in London, and they had this exhibition about André-Charles Boulle, a cabinet maker who used to make these items of furniture containing all kind of ingeniously hidden drawers. The Mudcat is a bit like that. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Bee Date: 16 Dec 06 - 03:53 PM Mudcat is also very kind to those of us with slow connections and old computers. Pages here load faster for me than the vast majority of other websites. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Cruiser Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:03 PM McGrath of Harlow "sayed": "I'm still finding new wrinkles after all these years." At our agedness old man, that is juss one of them thangs we caint do nothin' 'bout. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Bee Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:18 PM Yes you can. Remove those eyeglasses you got when you started getting old. Instantly, a look in the mirror will reveal you to be wrinkle free! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:23 PM It was said, rather unkindly, of Mae West "Her wrinkles have wrinkles." Not just her. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Cruiser Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:25 PM Now Bee, I am assumin' you are a lady. As such all you girls have to do is deny, deny and ifin' we boys want supper all we have to do is agree, agree that them wrinkles ain't thar. Honey, do these wrinkles look good on me? Yes Dear (whatever you say...) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: John Hardly Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:36 PM just start a new thred to ask someone to help you find the previous. ...then, when that disappears from the front page, start a new thread to ask someone to help you find the previous. ...then, when that disappears from the front page, start a new thread to ask someone to help you find the previous. ...then, when that disappears from the front page, start a new thread to ask someone to help you find the previous. ...then, when that disappears from the front page, start a new thread to ask someone to help you find the previous. It's so simple I can't believe you had to ask. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:49 PM "What wrinkles?" Or you might try this "Believe me if all those endearing young charms... Drifting far from shore here! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: GUEST,beachcomber Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:50 PM used to be a member years ago, but my fairly frequent breaks for various treatments have lost me the privilege a few times. I'm not bothered though, I still enjoy reading all your posts, on whatever subject. The tolerance of some boggles my old mind. John aren't you afraid that if I follow your suggestions I may , eventually, dissappear up my own asshole ? Or perhaps that's what you hope? No chance man ! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:52 PM Big Mick, you said, "I have the 'messages since last visit' set to be my entry point into Mudcat." How do you do that? I looked for such a choice, and didn't find it. Maybe I'm getting blind in my superannuated status. Dave Oesterreich |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: Cruiser Date: 16 Dec 06 - 05:35 PM Hey McGrath Thanks for that link. I was making a list of classic romantic 3/4 meter songs I like and had completely forgotten about Believe Me...I have wrinkles on the wrinkles on the...in my old brain so I am a bit forgetful. Yes, wrinkles ain't as bad as smallpox pockmark scars. This is not really thread drift because it Refreshes the "How to Refresh" Thread. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: JohnInKansas Date: 16 Dec 06 - 06:05 PM One has to be a member to "trace" or "bookmark" a thread. It must also be remembered that the member must remember to log in when returning - as the same member - to be able to get to the bookmarks and traces on the member's personal page. Anyone, member or otherwise, can put a thread in their browser favorites, to be able to come back to it at any time. Just "add to favorites" with the thread open. IE at least will use the thread title as the "name" it shows in the list of favorites, and I'd assume other browsers work much the same. (Don't forget that favorites can be deleted as well, when they start to pile up so deep you can't remember why you put them there. If you click in the list at the top of the thread page, to go to a specific post, the URL shown at the top will be for the individual post, and it can be "added to favorites" in your browser if you want to be really specific about where you come back. For guests here, the Refresh box at the top of the "Lyrics and Knowledge" page, with number of days to go back is probably the most direct method. If one can remember at least one word from the thread title, putting it in the big box will greatly reduce the amount of And if you know you're likely to be away for a while, copying the thread URL from your browser and pasting it in a page in your word processor for future reference is another way of getting back. (Putting the thread title with the URL is recommended.) Or you can just hang around and watch until the thread comes back up because somebody added something to it. Just recently a thread started in 1995(?) requesting a song slipped out of sight with only one or two BtSOM posts in reply, and then a week or so ago it popped up when someone posted the requested lyric. If a thread you're watching gets close to the bottom of the page, and is in danger of slipping off, it's generally permissible to post to it (include "refresh" if you have nothing else to say) to bring it back to the top for another day. I seem to recall a "birthday thread" that was kept in sight for a couple of months after the originator started it on the wrong date - a year or so ago? John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: the lemonade lady Date: 16 Dec 06 - 06:49 PM Go to your personal page and look at you personal posted threads. Easy. sal |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: JohnInKansas Date: 16 Dec 06 - 07:27 PM Ms Lemon - It's easy, but only for those registered and logged in, and only if they were logged in when they posted to the thread. I don't believe guests have a personal page.(?) IFF they've added a name to the GUEST, e.g. "GUEST,Jethro" they can find all the posts using that name, so if they use a distinctive name they can search for prior uses of that specific one. John |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: JennyO Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:38 AM Lots of good advice here. I see you have posted as GUEST, beachcomber 140 times. If you click on your name on your post, you will see those posts. The thread you are looking for could well be there. Otherwise, as others have said, using the filter box, particularly with one word from the thread title, and setting it back as far as you want, is another good way to find old threads. Good luck! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: GUEST,registered but lazy Date: 17 Dec 06 - 10:03 AM does he know when the last poster posted? search for it with a word in the "title" going back a week or so. Try several different words until you remember the right one. Or register and look at My Threads in Personal. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: How to 'Refresh'? From: GUEST,beachcomber Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:37 PM Thanks all !
-Joe Offer- |