Help - problem with thread

**aspinall** · 23-05-2008, 10:25 PM

Hiya,

I am wondering if anyone can help me. I was following a thread recently and got emailed to say someone had replied...but when I click on the link it takes me to a completely different post. It was the other night when the site was slow etc so has it been deleted by technical error...or has the administrator removed it??? Bit confused and wondering if anyone can help??

The link on the email is:

This thread is located at: http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/genera...-new-post.html

the title on this link is right but it takes you to a student question???

Thanks

**Gollywobbler** · 23-05-2008, 10:38 PM

Hi there

I'm not going to try to tell a computer-wizard what happened!

As far as I can vaguely gather, the company that provides the PiO server suggested an upgrade to a new, improved server (a new one of their own.)

Tim ended up spending nearly all night trying to deal with the gremlins that came running at him when they made the switch.

Posts, whole threads, PMs and new users all got dropped off the edge of the earth. Whatever restores a system like this did some sort of partial retrieval but some of the threads are not complete - merely better than they were at the height of the problem.

It would not surprise me in the least if some of the links have gone wrong too.

The only thing I can suggest is click on Search, then Advanced Search, and see whether you can find the thread via a keyword search? Otherwise, perhaps start a new thread on the topic?

I know this is feeble but so is my knowledge of computers!

Best wishes

Gill

**aspinall** · 23-05-2008, 10:40 PM

Thanks so much for answering this. I'm Toni the non technical person who posted this not my geeky developer hubby so thanks for explaining stuff to me!!!

**Rickard Family** · 23-05-2008, 10:47 PM

Hi

me too..... quite a few of my posts had gone missing had to repeat the ones i could remember

, was having a conversation through PM so not even sure if they all got through or not.....(sorry deb if that the case i'm not ignoring you honest)
Lou.

**KP Nuts** · 23-05-2008, 10:54 PM

Hi Toni, if you know the person that started the post, you could go into the members list under their name and go thou their posts / threads until you come across it.

Hope that helps

KP Nuts