Ditto. I happened to Google my old thread from August 2008 ("1930 Spanish Kitchen 98% Complete") to see if it had fallen off. There were two comments/questions from GWers dated March 17 that I had not seen. I replied this evening.

I can find the thread including my recent reply via Google, but it is nowhere on the GW forum that I can find. Bummer.

Unfortunately, once a thread drops off the list it never comes back to the list. If it's a thread that's had a post since at least late-2007 and you've bookmarked it, you can link to it directly. Anyone who's bookmarked it and retrieves it can post to it, but it still won't jump back onto the list. The post will be there, but the thread is still missing in action!

So, my advice to you and everyone else is...if you want to save a thread for later reference, bookmark it or save it to your local machine!

One caution: If someone deletes or moves their pictures that were posted in the thread and you only bookmarked it, you will lose those pictures when you retrieve the thread later.

To be sure you save everything, you really need to save the thread to your machine. Note that later posts won't show up in the saved thread b/c you've saved it at a specific point in time. Future posts won't be there...but, you can always re-save it. Once you save the thread to your machine, all pictures are saved with it. How do you do this? There are a couple of ways that most people use.

Saving the thread "as is" from your browser:

• From Firefox:

1. Go to the Menu Bar (File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help)

2. Click File

3. Select Save Page As...

4. The file name will default to the msg#.html (in the case of this message, it defaults to msg0322471215999.html)

5. Click the Save button

In Internet Explorer:

1. Go to the Menu Bar (File Edit View Favorites Tools Help)

2. Click File

3. Select Save As...

4. The file name will default to the - Kitchens Forum - GardenWeb.mht (in the case of this message, it defaults to Buehl, Q for you re missing posts - Kitchens Forum - GardenWeb.mht)

5. Click the Save button

Note: In both cases you can save to a different File Type by clicking the "Save as type" drop down menu and selecting another type.

Saving the thread in an MS Word document or similar:

1. Open a new/empty MS Word (or other) document

2. Select the entire thread using one of the following:

• Click the keys
  [Note: This will select the entire page, including the GW header & footer.]
  ......OR......

• Using the mouse, select whatever part of the thread you wish to save by clicking & dragging. I usually start with the subject line of the Original Post and drag to the end of the last post.

Copy the selection by using the keys
Paste what you just copied into the MS Word (or other) document
[Note: In most Microsoft products, the paste keys are ]
Save the document using whatever name you like
[Note: In MS Word, click File and select Save As...]

A note about much older threads....

Prior to 2008, when a thread fell off the thread list (i.e., fell off of page 67), the thread was lost forever unless you had saved it down to your machine. Even when bookmarked, the thread was gone. If you tried to retrieve it using your bookmark, you received a page that said "Missing File". Occasionally you could find it using a Google search...but...

buehl, as always, you are most helpful. Thanks for the detailed reply.

Eliz