Calling all Regulars/Board Guides Help Needed

MSE_Martin

I see there's some conclusion let me try and explain.

1. Threads started after june - we have them all
2. Threads started before june - we can recreate them
3. Posts made after june on threads started before june - we have probably lost them

Thus

If a post was popular and started in February.... then we should be able to restore all the thread and all the posts on it up to June... but all posts made on that thread after June we've probably lost.

Hope this clarifies it

fermi

MSE_Martin wrote: »

3. Posts made after june on threads started before june - we have probably lost them

But on threads such as the one below which started before the 29th June and continued after we have lost the posts up until 29th June, but the ones after are still there.

DFW Nerd Club.

Which is exactly the opposite to your statement the above.

I think like Edinburghlass, it's too late for this.:o

Alfie_E

Similarly to what fermi says, if you look at this post by lisssa on the thread Sticky: Chip 'n' Pin - A Quick Guide Discussion Area and what follows it, you’ll see there’s a hole between approximately 19-10-2004 and 28-06-2007. Two posts after lisssa’s, there’s one by me. I know the hole wasn’t there, when I posted.

I can’t do dates, but I can to graphs. The following graph is how things appear to me to, at the present time.

Martin, you seem to be saying that you want posts only after 1 June 2007. I can’t see that you can mean “after 30 June 2007”, because we already have those posts. Are you saying that backups can be used to bring the forum to the situation in the next graph?

This means you are only looking for posts for one month – June 2007?

Edinburghlass_2

It does clarify it for me Martin as thats how I worked it out, sorry Alfie but you do make a pretty picture!

fermi

The one below is not so pretty and clearly shows that it is the posts from before the end of June that are missing in this case (and many others).





While previously the beginning of the thread looked like this:

passion8

BigBouncyBall wrote: »

don't know if this site can help:

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Thanks for posting this BBB. I was trying to get my old pc to work, as I knew I had this site bookmarked on it and thought it might help too. Then I realised it's part of the waybackmachine site .

Thanks anyway and good luck to all that are trying their hardest to restore lost posts.

peter999

MSE_Martin wrote: »

I see there's some conclusion let me try and explain.

3. Posts made after june on threads started before june - we have probably lost them

Thus

If a post was popular and started in February.... then we should be able to restore all the thread and all the posts on it up to June... but all posts made on that thread after June we've probably lost.

Hope this clarifies it

I would doublecheck #3, as you DO seem to have the posts you think maybe lost.
Those posts are on MSE right now.

Threads started before end June (29-6-07) with posts after end June, have been chopped & currently only show posts after end June

The following threads were all started before June & have been chopped at 29-6-07:
(if you sort Discussion Time/The Arms by Replies, you will see these threads are on 1st page with most replies)

Discussion Time » Why the Pope?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=463777

Discussion Time » An amazing discovery
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=462954

Discussion Time » The law of unintended consequences -Smoking Ban
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=460660

The Money Savers Arms » ***The Official BIG BROTHER 2007 thread***
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=465979

peter999

MSE_Martin

Folks this is interesting stuff I know we're working on section one of the restall today so I will pass this onto the techie team

peter999

These threads on MSE now have all been chopped at 29-6-07 & currently only show posts after end June:

Reclaim Your Bank and Credit Card Charges » Reclaim Unfair Bank Charges article discussion Part II
-thread started by MSE Jenny
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=454360

Reclaim Your Bank and Credit Card Charges » Bank Charges Success Stories II
-thread started by MSE Martin
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=466832

Debt-Free Wannabe » Immoral_angel's Debt Diary
-thread started by immoral_angeluk
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=285422

Debt-Free Wannabe » Hypno's kick up the backside debt diary....
-thread started by hypno06
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=397139

Internet Access » Cut your NTL/Telewest/Virgin Media Broadband pricing
-thread started by swebb
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=77342

peter999

fermi

peter999 wrote: »

These threads on MSE now have all been chopped at 29-6-07 & currently only show posts after end June:

Plenty more where they came from as well. In exactly the same state:

Bankruptcy & Living With It:Wherediditallgo’s ‘path to enlightenment’ bankruptcy diary

To name but one, and I think many of the other long running threads on DFW.