Why can’t I find the question I asked to the Apple Community?

"Subscriptions," as Apple calls our forum activity, are only viewable back about three months if you use the forums' internal search function. As we are other end users and not moderators, we cannot tell you why—we don't know.

However, old posts themselves are saved. To find older ones, use your favorite web search engine to do a "site-delimited" search. It's easy.

Enter this string in the search engine's search window:

site:discussions.apple.com "Shel7585"

That will return all threads you have authored or in which you have participated within these forums.

👉🏻 If you do not copy/paste the string I provided and prefer to type one yourself, note that there is NO space after the colon that follows "site" and the "d" in "discussions."

As you get comfy with that, you can add further search parameters to narrow searches. Examples:

"2025" will restrict the posts to ones this year

"reset SMC" will limit the topic

Another note: search engines that sell "prefered result placement" (most do) will still show the paid-for adverts above your results. Ignore them.

Hello~ Click on your avatar >>>View profile>>>Subscriptions. I can see all of your asked questions. You may also Edit preferences & Preferences and scroll down to receive certain messages.

~Katana-San~

Shel7585 wrote:

What is “reset SMC” mean?

Are the moderators Apple Employees?

Hello again ~ Yes…they are and we can’t discuss that here. I believe that the thread you are looking for no longer exists.

~Katana-San~

Shel7585 wrote:

Thank you for your reply. We can’t discuss they’re Apple employees or what SMC is?

We cannot discuss the moderation process on the site but yes the moderators are Apple employees. The SMC is the System Management Controller on a Mac. I think that is irrelevant to your inquiry, the only reason Allan mentioned it was as an example of things you could search for.

Shel7585 wrote:

What is “reset SMC” mean?

Don't try to read too much into that. I only used that as an example of a topic for which one might search.

FWIW, the SMC is the System Management Controller. Sometime it needs resetting.

Shel7585 wrote:

Thank you for your reply. We can’t discuss they’re Apple employees or what SMC is?

Hello once more~ Moderation of this site.

~Katana-San~