Lost Posts on Google - READ!
One more possibility that may work for some people: local cache. Browsers save a copy of a page on the local drive, and if you're clever you can recover that page. Generally, you will have had to have not been to the thread since it went down for this to work, so it might not apply to most people.
Instructions for Firefox:
IMPORTANT! Before trying to read anything from the cache, click on "File" --> "Work Offline". This will ensure that Firefox reads from the cache and doesn't try to "update" from the website.
Type "about:cache" into the address bar. This will bring up a page all about your cache.
Explore and see if you can find the pages you're missing. Try doing a Find (CTL-F) for "www.enworld.org/showthread.php". When you find one, click on it. If you haven't been to that page since the crash, it should have the missing posts in it. Save the page.
For those of you running PbP games, ask your players to try this, as one of them may have something you don't.
Instructions for Firefox:
IMPORTANT! Before trying to read anything from the cache, click on "File" --> "Work Offline". This will ensure that Firefox reads from the cache and doesn't try to "update" from the website.
Type "about:cache" into the address bar. This will bring up a page all about your cache.
Explore and see if you can find the pages you're missing. Try doing a Find (CTL-F) for "www.enworld.org/showthread.php". When you find one, click on it. If you haven't been to that page since the crash, it should have the missing posts in it. Save the page.For those of you running PbP games, ask your players to try this, as one of them may have something you don't.
Erekose13
Explorer
There is still hope that Morrus has a more recent backup.
In the mean time here are a few more google tips:
1. in the search if you find the thread you are looking for, grab the thread number (ie. this thread is 161508) and include that in your search
2. Google often omits similar topics, but that is what you are looking for so always click on the repeat this search option at the bottom of the last page of results.
3. If you kept a thurough signiture post in the sig thread, you can google that and work off there to recover missing thread names/help with google searches.
Edit: Bront has already recovered the sig thread from google. You can find it in his post at the bottom of the sig thread.
In the mean time here are a few more google tips:
1. in the search if you find the thread you are looking for, grab the thread number (ie. this thread is 161508) and include that in your search
2. Google often omits similar topics, but that is what you are looking for so always click on the repeat this search option at the bottom of the last page of results.
3. If you kept a thurough signiture post in the sig thread, you can google that and work off there to recover missing thread names/help with google searches.
Edit: Bront has already recovered the sig thread from google. You can find it in his post at the bottom of the sig thread.
Brother Shatterstone
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