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How do i find my old questions and answers
i have posted a few questions and got answers in this forum, unfortunately i
have stored the answers. i have now the same questions, how can i retrieve those old questions, so that I can review the answers given then |
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How do i find my old questions and answers
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-- Gary''s Student - gsnu201001 "VKL Narayanan" wrote: i have posted a few questions and got answers in this forum, unfortunately i have stored the answers. i have now the same questions, how can i retrieve those old questions, so that I can review the answers given then |
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How do i find my old questions and answers
This is off-topic, but would you please tell me how you accomplished that
result in Google Groups. I often do not have much success with GG Advanced Search. In this case, I find only 5 of the 7 postings that you found, and the results are not in the form that you show. I tried two different methods. 1. In Advanced Search, I select: 50 results per page; sort by date; search Google Groups; return messages posted anytime; author is . The result is given by http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...com&safe =off. 2. In my Profile page, I enter in the search field. The result is given by http://groups.google.com/groups?q=VK...Submit3=Search. Note that this finds only 4 of the 7. Furthermore, if I click on Sort By Date, the list is reduced to 3(!). Moreover, in the recent past, when I have tried searching based on message ID, the search has failed despite the fact that I had copied the message ID from a message that I found in GG, and the message had been posted using GG. (I was testing search by message ID because another less-controlled search failed, where I had gotten the message ID from some other source.) More typically, when I search based on "find web pages [with] all these words", usually limiting the search to "from the group at [...] microsoft.public.excel.*" and "from the group at [...] microsoft.public.excel", I often fail to find the article that I know exists (because I posted it). I have also had no success when I specify "subject contains". It is not clear to me whether the search field must be a phrase or a set of words; and if the latter, whether the words are ORed or ANDed by default. Usually I try to limit the search field to one word, just to be sure. (Occassionally, I also try specifying "author is". But I do not expect that to always succeed because I have posted under slightly different variations of my account name, depending on the interface used. Again, it is not clear to me whether the search field can be a substring, or it must be an exact match.) None of this instills confidence in GG Advanced Search. I use it because it's the best I have found. When it is successful, I'm pleased. When it is not, I'm SOL. ----- original message ----- "Gary''s Student" wrote in message ... http://groups.google.com/groups/prof...HtE-OvPWMjurJE -- Gary''s Student - gsnu201001 "VKL Narayanan" wrote: i have posted a few questions and got answers in this forum, unfortunately i have stored the answers. i have now the same questions, how can i retrieve those old questions, so that I can review the answers given then |
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I did not use advanced search. I went to the Group in which the poster made
his query. I click on his username and selected Profile. -- Gary''s Student - gsnu201001 "Joe User" wrote: This is off-topic, but would you please tell me how you accomplished that result in Google Groups. I often do not have much success with GG Advanced Search. In this case, I find only 5 of the 7 postings that you found, and the results are not in the form that you show. I tried two different methods. 1. In Advanced Search, I select: 50 results per page; sort by date; search Google Groups; return messages posted anytime; author is . The result is given by http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...com&safe =off. 2. In my Profile page, I enter in the search field. The result is given by http://groups.google.com/groups?q=VK...Submit3=Search. Note that this finds only 4 of the 7. Furthermore, if I click on Sort By Date, the list is reduced to 3(!). Moreover, in the recent past, when I have tried searching based on message ID, the search has failed despite the fact that I had copied the message ID from a message that I found in GG, and the message had been posted using GG. (I was testing search by message ID because another less-controlled search failed, where I had gotten the message ID from some other source.) More typically, when I search based on "find web pages [with] all these words", usually limiting the search to "from the group at [...] microsoft.public.excel.*" and "from the group at [...] microsoft.public.excel", I often fail to find the article that I know exists (because I posted it). I have also had no success when I specify "subject contains". It is not clear to me whether the search field must be a phrase or a set of words; and if the latter, whether the words are ORed or ANDed by default. Usually I try to limit the search field to one word, just to be sure. (Occassionally, I also try specifying "author is". But I do not expect that to always succeed because I have posted under slightly different variations of my account name, depending on the interface used. Again, it is not clear to me whether the search field can be a substring, or it must be an exact match.) None of this instills confidence in GG Advanced Search. I use it because it's the best I have found. When it is successful, I'm pleased. When it is not, I'm SOL. ----- original message ----- "Gary''s Student" wrote in message ... http://groups.google.com/groups/prof...HtE-OvPWMjurJE -- Gary''s Student - gsnu201001 "VKL Narayanan" wrote: i have posted a few questions and got answers in this forum, unfortunately i have stored the answers. i have now the same questions, how can i retrieve those old questions, so that I can review the answers given then . |
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