am I gettin old ???? can't find..(search problems)

Subject: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 08:38 AM

hallo all , I wonder If I am gettin old or just so stupied
that I cant learn how to surch in the forum here on MC .

can someone help me ! how can look up old threads that I have made ??

all the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 08:41 AM

Skarpi ! If you click on your name in this thread , it will dispaly ALL the poste you have made in the past !

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 08:55 AM

Where have all the biros gone - long time passing?

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 08:56 AM

hahahaha thanks both

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:13 AM

Where have all the plectrums gone ........ long time passing

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:20 AM

My uncle told me about a doctor he had seen on TV. The doctor said, 'If you can't remember where your put your keys, that's normal and nothing to worry about. If you take your keys in your hand and don't know what they are for, then you're getting old.'

By the way, Skarpi, I have tried searching for old threads and found that the search function doesn't always find them.

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: Mr Happy
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:26 AM

Maybe its gettin' old?

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 11:03 AM

Google site search normally works when Mudcat searching doesn't.

put what you're wanting in quotation marks then search Mudcat site

"phrase" site:mudcat.org

sandra

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 07:08 PM

Reflections of Paul Erdos on aging; it's bad when you forget to zip up, but it's worse when you forget to zip down.

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find.........
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 11:07 AM

I'm getting quite a reputation at work for losing things and one of my assistants said' I'd write you a list of where everything is but you'd only lose it!' It all turns up eventually - usually the day after I need it lol

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 01:20 PM

Well, actually, the regular search function isn't working at all in the Forum, although it works on the Digital Tradition. I think the index file is corrupted. I told Max about it.

You will find instructions for other search techniques toward the top of the FAQ. I use the Filter most often, because it's the best tool for finding things
by thread title.

For Skarpi's situation, the best thing to do is what has been described above - click on the poster's name in any message, and you will see all the messages that person has posted.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 01:32 PM

As you age, you become more concerned with the Hereafter. You walk upstairs, look around and wonder "what did i come up hereafter?"

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 01:42 PM

Three things happen when you get old. First, your memory goes.

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search probl
From: Amos
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 01:46 PM

YEah, they say the first thing to go is whatchamacallit....



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Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 02:12 PM

Nah, that still works, I just can't remember where I put it.

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 02:21 PM

Sandra... Thank you! That deserves a thread of it's own and I am gonna do it right now.

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 02:52 PM

BTW... Skarpi... I started the other threads as adjucnts to this one after Sandra's great advice. I hope it will help and I hope you don't mind.

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 03:12 PM

Gnu, I deleted your two threads on searching, since they just repeated Sandra's message above. We already have this one currently active on searching, and I added (search problems) to the thread title so people will easily know what it's about. There are search instructions in the FAQ, and this thread has specific instructions on how to use Google to search Mudcat.

As a general principle, we allow only one active thread on any given subject at a time. If there's a discussion going on currently, please don't start a new thread on the same subject. If the title of the current discussion isn't quite right, ask me or Big Mick or a volunteer moderator to modify the thread title. We also don't allow parallel threads in both the BS and Music sections - pick one or the other.


This is what's in the FAQ:

Use Google to search Mudcat

If you use this Google search link and just add what you're looking for, you'll be able to search Mudcat. A search for twa corbies would look like this: (click).

Thanks.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: am I gettin old ???? can´t find..(search problems)
From: gnu
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 03:19 PM

Cool with me. And, the addition to the thread title is a great idea. Even better if it mentioned Mudcat specifically but I realize space is limited.

Thanks Joe.