Amazing how one gutless bastard can cause so much damage to an informational and knowledge based site such as the Access World Forums. I have copies of every database sample file I have ever posted and I will do my part and repost my contributions when time permits.
I do hope that the previous forum sections can be restarted for I thought each section was very useful and proportionally sectioned. But I think that we need to wait until the forum as been upgraded to prevent another hacking from destroying the rebirth of the Access World Forums.
For the time being I guess that I will have to refrain my classic (Searching the forum is a great way to discover and learn the answers to your Access programming questions ;-) since most of the links are dead because many of the original pages were hacked and deleted.
As another poster recently mentioned... You can google and find many of the older threads by clicking the "Cached" link to the google thread. As an example I googled for this text string "ghudson Browse [Find a directory or file]" and google returned this "dead" link
Access World Forums - Browse [Find a directory or file] I clicked the "
Cached" link below the found thread and google returned this old version of my original thread.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:...udson+Browse+[Find+a+directory+or+file]&hl=en Unfortunately the cached pages from google only go back to 11/25/2004 and the attached zip file links do not work but that is better than nothing. I have made numerous improvements to my Browse [Find a directory or file] thread and the posted sample but I will repost an improved version I have been working on once the "Samples" section of the forum is created.
One thread "section" I hope that will quickly be built is the common sense [decency] that a poster should follow before posting a question. Too many questions that have already been posted and answered are previously been posted within the forum. Granted that many of the older threads and knowledge this forum used to have been hacked and deleted. Maybe a request [private message or new posting] process can be made so that dead links can be edited. That might help those who actually use the forums
Search functions and prevent the new [and old] members find the answerers to their questions.