Help: Help finding old thread

Subject: Help finding old thread
From: Goodfellow
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:36 AM

A while back I started a thread "Keswick, Cockermouth, Edinburgh Folk" where I got a lot of useful help, I wrote down most of it but not all of it because I thought it would be saved... however I've done different searches and it does not show up at all... is there somekind of trick to using Mudcat that I don't know?

Thanks in advance....

VG

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:41 AM

Hi, Goodfellow - try this one (click)
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:47 AM

I found it too. Typed "cockermouth" into the filter box on the main threads page, changed "Age" to 180 days (wasn't sure how long ago "a while back" was) and clicked "Refresh."

Subject: Help finding old thread - searching Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:50 AM

To expand on that, let me explain what I did. I put Keswick in the "filter" box on the forum menu, and then set the age way back. I came up with a number of threads that you may want to review.
Now that you're a registered Mudcatter, your name in a message becomes a clickable link that will take you to all the messages you have posted (this link (click) will take you to the messages you posted as VGoodfellow).
You can also find old stuff using our Digitrad and Forum Search on the Forum Menu page, and also the Forum Search utility in our QuickLinks dropdown menu.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: Searching Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 12:20 PM

OK, to expand further - it's important to choose your search words carefully. If you're not specific enough, you'll get too many results. If you're too specific, you might miss threads that are just slightly different in title. I chose Keswick because I could spell it and be reasonably sure I was correct.
Jeri chose "cockermouse", but I'd probably come up with a typographical error on that one....
"Folk" would not have been a good search work to use in this forum.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: Goodfellow
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 05:16 PM

Thank you very much.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:21 PM

I have trouble gettting to threads that are recent. If, for example, I wanted one that happened within the past month, what should I put in the filter boxes?

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:27 PM

Any of the more unusual words which might have been in the title, then set the age filter back to however long you want it, i.e. 30 days, etc. If you want to see ALL of the threads from teh past thirty days, don't put any words in the filter box, just use the drop-down menu to set the age back a month or so.

kat

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:36 PM

If a thread is of interest, I have probably posted to it, and I know roughly how long ago. I click on Quick Links, select Forum Search, and click Go. In the User name Box that appears, put your Mudcat handle. All your posts come up (after a little wait), the most recent at top of the list. I then scroll back to the approx. date, and find the post.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:39 PM

Dicho, there's even a quicker way. If you click on your name, or that of someone else whose posts you want to see, in any thread, that will take you directly to all of your/their postings.

Subject: RE: Help: Help finding old thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:40 PM

Remember, Dicho, that you can do the same thing by clicking on your name in a message you've posted.
-Joe Offer-