I don't think the search function works for anything within the last 6 days.  I've posted many messages over the the last several days, but the most recent ones that it found when I searched for all of my messages within the last 7 days was messages posted on March 24.  I recall seeing a message about this in the old Forum Help forum, before they closed it to posting and removing all the messages, but apparently they have done nothing to fix this problem.

Steve

Thanks steve.

I have grown accustomed to boards with so many postings that a week ago was thousands or tens  of thousands of posting back and might not be accessable any longer.

When using the search feature I am able to go back several years. Make sure you are putting more than 90 days, any boards.etc.

Could you give me an exact example of a search that did not work.

Recent posts are not found. Old posts are.

Advanced search, Any message by JRosenfeld, any board last 7 days returns 0 finds. But I have posted several in the last seven days.

Similasrly search for last 30 days turns up 84, but none more recent than 24 March.

Example of recent post not found by searching under my name is, e.g. my post on 27 March in this thread

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=139549