Happens sometimes, so always good to save information from threads you like. I think all you can do is re-post. Sometimes if you contact the administrators they can resurrect it.

Your thread is not missing. Once a thread drops off page 67, it can no longer be bumped to the top nor will it be found via a search on the Forum...even if you post to it. In the past (pre-late 2007), once a thread dropped off the last page, it was gone forever unless someone had either saved it down to their local machine (not just bookmarked it) or if it was in some external search engine's cache.

Fast forward to today and in most cases if you have the URL you can retrieve it (e.g., if you've bookmarked it). Sometimes you can find a thread via a "Google" (or other search engine) search...which then gives you the URL to retrieve it.

As most of you know, a thread is kept current and on the first page by people posting to it...like some of us do to the "Read Me" thread. However, once a thread reaches 150 posts, it can no longer be posted to and will eventually drop off the last page.

The Kitchens Forum is very active, so threads with a last post older than about six to eight weeks will drop off page 67. As discussed above, you can still retrieve it if you the URL. You can even post to it (as long as it hasn't reached the upper limit of 150 posts), but it will not be bumped to page 1 nor will it be added back to the 67 pages of threads. People who find it will see all the posts, including those made after the thread dropped off, but only if they have the URL. For example, as I post this thread, the last thread on page 67 has a last post date of "Aug 10, 10 at 13:32". Once a new thread is added, that post will drop off and be lost to the thread list and the GW search engine (unless, of course, someone bumps it b/f it drops off).

There have been a few exceptions...both of threads lost forever even though they were recent and of old threads suddenly reappearing in the thread list. But, from what I can tell, these things only happened when the Forum is having problems which, thank goodness, has not been the case lately!

Case in point: A storage thread that was still very recent suddenly disappeared...and it was one of the better threads! I still link to it in the "Read Me" thread in case someone had saved it and can let me know. (I'd really like to have that thread!) [FYI...it's "forestfire..please help me with my lists", URL=http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0919242822271.html Does anyone have it????]