How to find my past contributions in this forum

breslamares87 wrote:

Hello Niel,

Sorry I don't understand how I could find ALL messages I posted this way...

Finding old posts is a common issue here. Posts stay here in perpetuity, but the forums' internal search function only "sees" back a few months, so cannot find them.

What Niel wisely suggests is a modified web-search parameter, a site-delimited search string, using your favorite search engine. Copying and pasting this search string:

site:discussions.apple.com “breslamares87”

into the search field of any supported search engine (Google; Yahoo; Duck Duck Go; etc) does two useful things:

— It only returns hits found in Apple Communities, and

— It only returns hits containing your username

If you type the string instead of pasting, be sure to note that there is NO space between "site:" and "discussions".

The quotes around your username are optional but are required if a username has a space like mine.

You can use a quoted value to narrow the search , say to one year:

site:discussions.apple.com “breslamares87” "2023"

or to a subject:

site:discussions.apple.com “breslamares87” "reset SMC"

Open your desired search engine and use your handle here and site:discussions.apple.com as the terms.

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