I can't read a post I wrote, but Google can find it???

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I can't read a post I wrote, but Google can find it???

Here's a puzzle. I wrote a post about how to change the Ventura login screen's keyboard layout. When I search for it with Google, it can be found:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254606922

When I try to load it, I get an error message

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254606922

My guess is that a moderator moved it to "user tips" or something like that, and I can't see it because I don't have enough points or "clout" to be allowed to write such a thing. Let us pause to be amused if this is true.

So, Google finds it, but I can't see it. What a whimsical world.

MacBook Air (M2)

Posted on Feb 3, 2023 8:25 AM

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Answer 1

Allan Jones

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Feb 3, 2023 8:36 AM in response to autnagrag

Can you find it among your "subscriptions?"

https://discussions.apple.com/profile/autnagrag/subscriptions?page=1&content=filterContent&activity=filterAuthored&type=filterDiscussions

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Allan Jones

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Feb 3, 2023 8:58 AM in response to Allan Jones

Good morning.

We are not moderators so cannot know the exact reason for anything disappearing here. However, Apple should send you an email when they delete a post for cause showing the reason.

It would typically go to the email address associated with your Apple ID. Have you checked all your email accts for any such messages?

As for why Google sees it... we are as in the dark as you unless Google saves snapshots of obsolete page versions. This is possible considering how many dead links one finds when searching.

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Answer 3

Feb 3, 2023 9:04 AM in response to autnagrag

I agree with Allan, I suspect that the post has been removed but Google hasn't updated it yet so you're still seeing a cached version of the post.

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Answer 4

Feb 3, 2023 9:20 AM in response to autnagrag

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Note that one of the surest ways to get a post removed is by threatening lawsuits.

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 3, 2023 9:55 AM in response to autnagrag

autnagrag wrote: I wrote a post about how to change the Ventura login screen's keyboard layout.

Can you repost it someplace? That is a useful fix to have. There is something in another forum

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/393662/how-to-change-the-default-macos-login-window-keyboard-layout

but whether that works in Ventura I don't know, and it's always good to have one here as well.

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autnagrag Author

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Feb 3, 2023 11:03 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I expect that is true. I thought that what I wrote was a question. I take your response as “no,“ in answer to my question.

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 8, 2023 12:18 PM in response to autnagrag

autnagrag wrote:

Done.

Thanks! It's here.

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autnagrag Author

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Feb 3, 2023 9:16 AM in response to Allan Jones

Thank you. I found the text of my post about changing the login keyboard layout on Ventura in my email. Apple offers no way to do it that I could find. Lots of users want a different keyboard layout on the login screen, because lots of users have native languages that are not English, or disabilities that cause them to prefer a layout such as Dvorak. My osteoarthritis of the hands strongly contributes to my preference for the Dvorak keyboard layout at login.

Do I need to drum up a class action suit, citing the Americans with Disabilities Act? Apple seems to take pride in their accessibility options, so this flaw seems particularly glaring.

Previous Apple operating systems did not enshroud this, in my view, relatively basic setting in such secrecy. Why won't they just tell us how to do it, and make it clear on the login screen what the keyboard layout is? Who is being protected from what? I did not want to do it the way I did, on the command line, but I found no other path.

If either of you responders with very many more points than I have can kick this issue upstairs so it can get some attention, I and many other users will be grateful.

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