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I'm not sure where to post this...
I posted a question in Excel on Friday (11-13-09). I searched for all of my posts today, and that post isn't listed. I then searched for all posts about concatenating (the subject of my question). Again, my post wasn't there. SO... I figured I must have done something wrong on Friday & reposted the question earlier today. Still can't find it. The first thing I did was clear the cache & try again - but that didn't work. Where are my posts? Thanks |
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This happens very often on this site.. Anyway post your question again in
this thread..and do not forget to click on "Notify me of replies". "NicoleS" wrote: I'm not sure where to post this... I posted a question in Excel on Friday (11-13-09). I searched for all of my posts today, and that post isn't listed. I then searched for all posts about concatenating (the subject of my question). Again, my post wasn't there. SO... I figured I must have done something wrong on Friday & reposted the question earlier today. Still can't find it. The first thing I did was clear the cache & try again - but that didn't work. Where are my posts? Thanks |
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"NicoleS" wrote:
Where are my posts? First, please do not follow the advice of some people and keep reposting the same question -- at least, not until you become skilled enough with the interface that you use to correctly diagnose the problem. It does no one any good. It splits the discussion and causes people to duplicate their responses. And you still might lose track of the thread and cannot find the answers that you want. Second, at this moment, I have no problem finding your two most recent postings in the MS Discussion Groups web interface. Click on the following links. http://www.microsoft.com/communities...5-728783ff59f6 http://www.microsoft.com/communities...1-83efe9cbaf44 I found those by searching the MSNews server (msnews.microsoft.com) to find the threads, then manually searching the MSDG web interface. The MSDG search function failed to find those two particular threads, although it did find other threads that you (or someone with the same user id) initiated on 6/17/2009, 1/16/2009, 12/29/2008 and two on 12/4/2008. Obviously, the MSDG search function is not very reliable; no surprise there. Even though I find your two most recent postings now, it is possible that these threads were not always accessible using the MSDG interface. I have had the same experience using the MSNews server. With the latter, self-described experts have explained to me that what we perceive as a single server is actually two or more computers or computer clusters, and that either postings should be mirrored onto two or more disk arrays, or they should be accessible to all of the computers through shared disks. They explain that postings seem to disappear and perhaps reappear later when operations switch from one server or cluster to another. I cannot vouch for such explanations, since I have no direct knowledge of either the MSDG or MSNews server. However, as a computer architect, I can tell you that such arrangements are common in the design of servers and clusters that are intended to be highly accessible and highly reliable. And I can tell you that problems of that nature are possible, although they should be rare in the best redundancy designs. (It would not surprise me if the MSDG and MSNews servers do not employ "best redundancy designs". It is unusual for a company to invest much in the maintenance of news servers, unless it part of their core business.) ----- original message ----- "NicoleS" wrote in message ... I'm not sure where to post this... I posted a question in Excel on Friday (11-13-09). I searched for all of my posts today, and that post isn't listed. I then searched for all posts about concatenating (the subject of my question). Again, my post wasn't there. SO... I figured I must have done something wrong on Friday & reposted the question earlier today. Still can't find it. The first thing I did was clear the cache & try again - but that didn't work. Where are my posts? Thanks |
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