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27th Jun 2014 18:07 UTCDavid Baldwin

Some time ago, I responded to a message regarding septarian nodules, and posted some images of a nodule which contained a fossilised ichthyosaur skull. It now appears that the message has completely disappeared and at the time, I had a strange response from someone who told me that I should be careful posting certain things on here and that other members might take a dim view of fossil collecting. Can anyone enlighten me and/or expain where the post has gone?

27th Jun 2014 21:04 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager

http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,6,286528,286733#msg-286733

27th Jun 2014 21:22 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager

It has not disappeared. I found it by using the advanced search. See under the search box higher up, on the right side of this page.

27th Jun 2014 23:03 UTCDavid Baldwin

Thanks Knut, maybe the comment I mentioned was on another thread. I have just tried advanced search for exact phrase 'ichthyosaur skull', with all dates and it doesn't come up though, just today's post.

28th Jun 2014 10:37 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Maybe because you used " ichthyosaur's rostrum" in your message.

28th Jun 2014 13:02 UTCDavid Baldwin

David, I used the exact phrase ' ichthyosaur skull ' earlier in the thread, I even cut and pasted it from that message to advanced search, but it still doesn't show up in the results.

28th Jun 2014 15:37 UTCStephanie Martin

Hi David B

Just try using "ichthyosaur" there shouldn't be that many hits. What David V.B. was saying is that you didn't use "skull" in your original post. You used "rostrum". Hence nothing showed up - skull hits would have been zero from that post and since you combined them it wouldn't show matches for just ichthyosaur.

In an unrelated issue to the skull, sorry for hijacking the thread, but I noticed that the search mechanism does not work well for threads that have been recently merged. When all the Scrapbook threads were merged to the General forum, items from those messages are not returned on searches. If it is my own post I can find them in my personal post history however not in a main search. Very frustrating if I am searching for something I didn't post.

regards,

stephanie :-)

28th Jun 2014 17:29 UTCDavid Baldwin

I've tried that Stephanie, and searched for 'rostrum' too. It just doesn't like that particular thread. With 'ichthyosaur', I got all the messages from this thread, an unrelated 1 from a year ago and another from 3 years ago. Still not the thread in question. I guess the search on here is that great.

28th Jun 2014 18:12 UTCStephanie Martin

Hi David,

I just tried it and got the same results as you did. I used rostrum and all threads, all dates. The thread in question is over a year old. And I am wondering if it was one of those merged threads that I was struggling with. What you can do in this case is what I do when I am looking for something I may have posted and the search does not return. Click on your name in any post message and then it will take you to a page with your user profile name and other links, one of them being "show all posts". Click on that and you can scroll through your own history there in date order. It is cumbersome and time consuming if you don't remember the date, but it will be there. I hope there is a better solution for searching the merged threads.

regards,

stephanie :-)

30th Jun 2014 05:49 UTCWayne Corwin

David

You will only have 123 posts to look thru, so it won't be too bad ;-)

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