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Hi,
I wanted to reply to an older thread because I tested something and found a solution, but my profile doesn't give me a list of threads I authored or participated in. Is this an error on my side or just a service not given of this site?
a look after posting this shows that this is my only post of "all times".
thanks.
schmunzelmonster Said:
"view threads I authored or participated in: Hi, I wanted to reply to an older thread because I tested something and found a solution, but my profile doesn't give me a list of threads I authored or participated in. Is this an error on my side or just a service not given of this site? a look after posting this shows that this is my only post of 'all times'. thanks."
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Use Google to Find your Participated Posts:
Refer to my User Tip: Find Older Posts: [username] site:discussions.apple.com
schmunzelmonster Said:
"view threads I authored or participated in: Hi, I wanted to reply to an older thread because I tested something and found a solution, but my profile doesn't give me a list of threads I authored or participated in. Is this an error on my side or just a service not given of this site? a look after posting this shows that this is my only post of 'all times'. thanks."
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Use Google to Find your Participated Posts:
Refer to my User Tip: Find Older Posts: [username] site:discussions.apple.com
Apple calls you forum activity "Subscriptions" for some reason and you can access yours by clicking you avatar in the upper right of a forum page:
If I look at your Subscriptions (<-- click) and set the filter to "Authored," I see this:
Is this the thread you wished to revisit:
Remember mirroring settings for specific … - Apple Community
The poster there marked your answer as "Best."
I wanted to reply to an older thread...
Really old threads are locked against future contributions and have this banner:
schmunzelmonster Said:
"view threads I authored or participated in: thanks! Can I find answers I marked helpful with this trick?"
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Viewing a Web Site's Source HTML Code in Plain Text:
Another User Tip I have authored is to how to create a bookmark in the Bookmarks menu to view the HTML Code of any open Website you have in Courier New plain text. All the text is black, and it shows up as if you were to author a Website using plain text. See Here: How to: View a Web Page's HTML Code in Plain Text (Courier New) - User Tip
It's a unique tool, for authoring Websites, and viewing what is blocked by ads. Try it out, and see what you think:
Screenshot of this Site:
Now I see that recent one as well. Before, it was not there. No idea what happened.
I'd like to see all threads. Not to comment, but because they contain solutions to problems that occur only once in a while and that I sometimes forget. Can I make them visible? Searching anew takes up a lot of time.
As the forums have more than 3 million users, threads are only visible/kept active for 3 - 6 months. Another reason: technology and OS versions change so fast that the info becomes outdated fairly quickly, so the solution from 6 months ago may be outdated today.
So no, you cannot.
disagreed, answers do not become outdated in less than a year. I have pulled the initial trick about the cmd-F1 toggle to make the presentation screen black from a thread that was several years old. These Exposé options that went awry are going to survive for many more years, and they have been there since how long, Mountain Lion?
High-level people take time to provide thorough answers and it's not useful to delete them after half a year and wait until someone asks again and they write the whole blob all over again (or they don't, at some point). That's a disregard of specialists' time.
The amount of users and similar questions and not-so-useful answers is exactly the reason why relying on search is inefficient. But I accept that Apple redesigned the page so one cannot find older things any more, as one was able to. So thanks for answering.
You may disagree, but this site is owned by Apple and they can make any decision or rule they'd like. And, we are not allowed to discuss their moderation policy. You agreed to those terms when you opened an account here.
schmunzelmonster Said:
"view threads I authored or participated in: thanks! Can I find answers I marked helpful with this trick?"
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Sorry for a delayed reply --updated my Mac.
You are welcome.
No. You really can't because there are images, headers, and layers in-between. If I ever found a method, I'd post it as its own user tip. If you were to select it all, it could come up with something like this: " User profile for user: TheLittles TheLittles TheLittles User level: Level 10"
thanks! Can I find answers I marked helpful with this trick?
I have read quite a few comments when they changed the site. I wasn't aware that I'm not allowed to say that a certain policy isn't helpful. ok.
I think I won't search through html code to find which posts I marked helpful : ) I'll keep a markdown link in my notes for interesting articles.
view threads I authored or participated in
