NationStates

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:30 am**

I have an idea for a copy of your post to be made before an edit goes through.. Like say I post AAA And then I edit it so it's now AAB, maybe keep a copy of AAA in case I didn't want it to be AAB. It doesn't have to make a copy of every change, maybe just the most recent version before an edit or the original post. An option could be made for it in your preferences, as well as letting other people see past edits or not in general or for a specific post.

I'm asking after I accidentally wrote my new post for an RP over an old one by accident. I don't know how to get back that old post so it's now this weird out of date post before the events that caused it to occur. Basically it's out of chronological order, which is.. Eh. Still think the idea would be good irregardless.

If it's a matter of storing them taking up space you could have it so that the copies of the posts get deleted after a certain amount of time.

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:16 pm**

We try to keep our installation of the forum software as standard as possible. Upgrades are difficult enough as is.

Have you tried searching using Google cache to see if you can get your prior post back that way?

Ballotonia

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 6:34 pm**

Ballotonia wrote:We try to keep our installation of the forum software as standard as possible. Upgrades are difficult enough as is.

Have you tried searching using Google cache to see if you can get your prior post back that way?

Ballotonia

I'm not really sure what that is. Is that like a copy your browser keeps? Unfortunately I don't use chrome. I'm on an iPad and I use Icabmobile. It says I have 114 mega bytes web caches, I don't exactly know how I would access it though.

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 6:41 pm**

Meritocratic Conglomerate wrote:
Ballotonia wrote:We try to keep our installation of the forum software as standard as possible. Upgrades are difficult enough as is.

Have you tried searching using Google cache to see if you can get your prior post back that way?

Ballotonia

I'm not really sure what that is. Is that like a copy your browser keeps? Unfortunately I don't use chrome. I'm on an iPad and I use Icabmobile. It says I have 114 mega bytes web caches, I don't exactly know how I would access it though.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:00 pm**

Floor 448 wrote:
Meritocratic Conglomerate wrote:
I'm not really sure what that is. Is that like a copy your browser keeps? Unfortunately I don't use chrome. I'm on an iPad and I use Icabmobile. It says I have 114 mega bytes web caches, I don't exactly know how I would access it though.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en

Thank you, but unfortunately the page was cached before my post was made.

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:05 pm**

You could also try the Wayback Machine.

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:21 pm**

Trotterdam wrote:You could also try the Wayback Machine.

Thanks for the suggestion. Fortunately I figured out how to access my browser web cache and found my old post. Yay Web Caches, even if youre literally taking up 114 mega bytes with nothing but web pages, you come in handy.

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:35 pm**

Meritocratic Conglomerate wrote:
Trotterdam wrote:You could also try the Wayback Machine.

Thanks for the suggestion. Fortunately I figured out how to access my browser web cache and found my old post. Yay Web Caches, even if youre literally taking up 114 mega bytes with nothing but web pages, you come in handy.

Of course, I remember Scratch being even more annoying than that: it puts a hundred-megabyte (I think) file called "scratchthumbs.db" in EVERY FOLDER THAT YOU VISIT FROM THE APPLICATION. And if you delete them, it'll just make a new one when you next go there. It's really annoying, and is completely unnecessary because it's coded in Java and somehow doesn't know what a FileDialog is. One of the reasons I don't use Scratch anymore.

Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:46 pm**

Floor 448 wrote:
Meritocratic Conglomerate wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. Fortunately I figured out how to access my browser web cache and found my old post. Yay Web Caches, even if youre literally taking up 114 mega bytes with nothing but web pages, you come in handy.

Of course, I remember Scratch being even more annoying than that: it puts a hundred-megabyte (I think) file called "scratchthumbs.db" in EVERY FOLDER THAT YOU VISIT FROM THE APPLICATION. And if you delete them, it'll just make a new one when you next go there. It's really annoying, and is completely unnecessary because it's coded in Java and somehow doesn't know what a FileDialog is. One of the reasons I don't use Scratch anymore.

That definitely sounds annoying, I don't really have to deal with Java or anything complicated like that because it's an IPad and well... An Apple product. It's kindergartener proof. But still with only 16GB and maybe 5 of that being taken up by the freaking OS. (IOS is bloated to Hell, wish I could delete certain parts of it that I don't really use.) Every Megabyte counts, especially when your using it to store you school text books as well.

What exactly was the point of that file. Was it like a marker or something, like a flag it can call back to? What the Hell would it be doing to warrant so much space.

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