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Old Topics?

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Old Topics?

Postby mcm757207 » 22 Aug 2009 13:46

I really liked how all of the ideas were stored in this forum, anyone know where the old topics went? Did they get moved somewhere?
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby mh » 22 Aug 2009 14:05

If only I knew.
Very sad to see that a lot of posts here have been deleted, and I have no idea who did that.
"The techs discovered that German locks were particularly difficult" - Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton w. Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda (New York: Dutton, 2008), p. 210
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby jamesphilhulk2 » 22 Aug 2009 17:22

this has happened before hmm...conspiracy lol
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby zeke79 » 22 Aug 2009 18:23

Does anyone know the subject name of one of the missing threads and who started the thread? If I can get some good info I'll see if I can possibly dig the threads up from somewhere. I can guarantee you that nothing was deleted intentionally and it is very likely that with a bit of info I can find any threads you remember. The only case that I won't be able to recover something is if it was accidentally deleted or if it was possibly lost/deleted during a forum update or upgrade.

Let me know what I can do to help out and I'll do my best to take care of it,

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Re: Old Topics?

Postby Safety0ff » 22 Aug 2009 18:46

zeke79 wrote:Does anyone know the subject name of one of the missing threads and who started the thread?

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:LSO ... clnk&gl=ca
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby unlisted » 23 Aug 2009 1:40

I know there was a rather large issue with the TOSL forum a while ago, and basically everything disappeared.. but I was not in any way involved, another mod may remember more..
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby Legion303 » 23 Aug 2009 8:01

Regular mods and spamcops can't affect posts in this forum. Other than the admins, mh is the only one with access. Old posts disappearing was either a software bug or someone hitting the wrong button. :)

As I recall, though, the lost posts were just gone...they didn't end up in the trashcan forum, otherwise we would have been able to restore them.

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Re: Old Topics?

Postby mh » 23 Aug 2009 10:19

Well, I know that I didn't press any wrong buttons, not this time, and not last time.
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby mcm757207 » 30 Aug 2009 19:35

Did it happen again?
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby GottFoo » 30 Aug 2009 19:43

I've noticed that the search doesn't seem to be picking up alot of threads. I've been using google and site:http://lockpicking101.com lately.
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby LocksmithArmy » 30 Aug 2009 20:19

I have noticed the same thing... it seems to only pick up recent posts... I have searched for posts that I looked at less than a minute before and used words that I knew for a fact were in there and could not find posts...
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby mh » 1 Sep 2009 23:14

Ok... - Apparently when the TOSL forum section was set up a year ago, some SW feature switch was set to "auto-delete inactive posts" :(

Now db has kindly corrected this and we should not run into such issues again in the future.

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Re: Old Topics?

Postby mcm757207 » 1 Sep 2009 23:59

mh wrote:Ok... - Apparently when the TOSL forum section was set up a year ago, some SW feature switch was set to "auto-delete inactive posts" :(

Now db has kindly corrected this and we should not run into such issues again in the future.

mh


But all of those posts are gone forever?
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby unlisted » 2 Sep 2009 0:36

mcm151201 wrote:
But all of those posts are gone forever?


Sadly, yes. :( Auto delete sucks.
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Re: Old Topics?

Postby SnowyBoy » 2 Sep 2009 13:35

Oh well, no better excuse to fill it up again ;)
What a load of old BiLocks!!!!

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