[ndench]

Hi

I've had trouble on a couple of occasions lately viewing old posts in the forums. It seems that older posts disappear from view after a very short period of time (3 months?), and although it may be possible to find them by using the search facility, I've never had much luck at it.

It happened to me this morning (looking for posts giving details about upgrading to a new device), and it happened to me a couple of months ago, when I was looking for something in the Templates forum about Mind Manager.

Of course, it might just be that I've been looking in the wrong forums, or for the wrong terms, but I wondered if it's possible to change the default period after which posts disappear (presumably, to be archived somewhere less accessible). Perhaps there are disk space issues that make this impossible.

[bnystrom]

If you go into the "Customize" section, there is a setting that says how many days back the forum will go for you. I think it might be that the search only occurs on the set of data up to that retension mark. Silly, I know, but I think it was the way they avoided having to do large searches. This board is currently set up to use an access database (which can be problematic in a heavy multi-user situation). If our ISP ever updates the version of ColdFusion on our site to something released in the last 4 year we may upgrade the forums software again and move to a SQL database. Then we can also turn on some of the more advanced search features.

[ndench]

Hi Bryan

That sorted it! I customized my setup so that I see 300 days of threads, and lo and behold there was the article on upgrading to a new device. Thanks.