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How do you search your messages here?

Asked by KNOWITALL (29695points) February 4th, 2020

Since I just found out Ibstubro passed away, I was wanting to look up old conversations with him.
How would I do that with seven plus years of messages?

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flo's avatar

I prefer everything on a thread since (you can’t?) search PMs.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@flo PM’s can get pretty personal, when you’re long term friends. Not sure how I’d go back years easily.

flo's avatar

That’s what I meant. I would do it in email account for future. I guess you already thought so.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@flo Ohhhhh exchange email. I misunderstood. So there’s no way to go back six years quickly?

flo's avatar

@KNOWITALL I used a question mark on my 1st post, I’m not sure.

jca2's avatar

@KNOWITALL: I’m not sure if you’re in the FB group but we talked about Ibstubro’s death in the group, when it happened.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@jca2 I don’t think I was on there two years ago. I am now.

janbb's avatar

His account is still here. If you go to it, any public messages he got will be visible to you as well as the private PMs you and he exchanged.

stanleybmanly's avatar

I’m flummoxed that you were unaware of his death in view of the extent of your participation here. The list of tributes on his behalf ran interminably, and not only in Meta.

Jons_Blond's avatar

Go to his profile and click on message as if you are going to send him a message. Your message history will be there.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@stan Not at the time, I was busy with my own first campaign. Starting to make me rethink my sabbaticals away.

flo's avatar

@KNOWITALL But you did get the answer, right?

KNOWITALL's avatar

@flo Oh his profile is still up so I saw a few messages and read a few of his posts. But reading all of them between us, no.

janbb's avatar

@KNOWITALL Ah, I see now. I just played with it with a few Jellies I message with. It seems like all but recent messages are deleted. I remember being able to go back through months of messages in the past. It looks like they are gone.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Boo. Ok thanks.

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