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[HEPZIBAH]

It seems that whenever I try to use the search facility I end up with a message telling me I'm not allowed to use it (can't remember exact wording). Is there any way around this as I have often wanted to look back at old posts but can't find what I'm looking for without a very long trawl through all the posts in each section.

[BENNU]

It probably tells you that you cannot use search right now, nothing personal.

You can just take a few breaths and keep refreshing the page until it is ready.

[DJKeefy]

Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few minutes.

It was set at 30 seconds, I have now set it to wait only 15 seconds between searches, this stops search engines and bots from hogging all the database resources by constantly searching (slowing the forum down)

[HEPZIBAH]

Thanks. I'll give it a try later - when I remember what it was I was searching for.