How to Send Private Message?

There is no provision within ASC to do so.

Providing personal data like that would be a major invasion of privacy. We continually warn posters about putting their information in threads. Since this is a public forum, people's personal information must be protected. And fairly certain that most people would not want to be contacted by a complete stranger asking them to follow up on a post they had done in the past....

Cheers,

GB

You could, however, add a follow up post to the thread in question. Those paying attention to the thread may then share any insights they might have gained.

tt2

Additionally, we are all volunteers and not Apple employees, so we spend whatever time we can here and, although I enjoy helping people (after all, that is why I am here), I would not appreciate getting emails unless this was a (paid) job and a requirement. Additonally, there is always a safey concern online - I've been stalked a couple of times.

Not missing the point at all = Apple does not want us to have PMs, so we do not get PMs = that simple (I do not agree with their policy either, BTW)

Forums are meant to be a cost saving measure, avoiding calls to Apple Support Real Apple Paid Employees - as a shareholder, I like the idea - as a "distressed customer" not so much

I'm not missing the point. As babowa pointed out, getting an email from someone 3 months after I posted in a thread here would not be something that would be welcome. I check all of the threads I have participated in for any new comments. Oftentimes, I respond to someone who as added to a thread that is three years old.

tt2 provided you with the best way to get a follow-up answer, and that would be to add a post to the thread that you are interested in, replying to the specific poster who you are asking the question of. As those of us who volunteer here often, we check our threads, and if we see a new post we see what it is all about. If we can help further we do. If your question is directed to another person, but we have new info, we provide it. That's just how it works here.

And like babowa, I would rather not have to deal with someone stalking me.

Cheers,

GB

PMs in robust forums have ROBUST user prefs... many levels of permissions chosen by you the user - nobody would be foisting anything upon you you did not want - unlike here where you get ONLY what Apple wants you to have

I am not missing the point either. I'm sorry if these forums do not have a feature that you would like; you might want to send feedback to Apple. There is a link at the bottom of every page (Contact us).

https://www.apple.com/support/feedback/

When we are searching for solutions to a problem and, upon searching the forums, find someone who was trying to solve a similar problem in a thread several months old, we cannot query his or her results unless hshe is still actively following the old thread. Major loss.

Cyber --

Good post, IMHO. If you are currently looking for a solution, rather than rely on someone's else's thread . . . Why not post your own new thread, giving your specific situation, symptoms, etc.

Your comments, I hope, will remind posters here why it's so important to give feedback in their posts. Finding a solution and then just going away doesn't help anyone.

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