I have this exact problem.
Edit: nvm, found the solution
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Found the answer to this here
Closed as a duplicate
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- 80% of Microsoft support page links
The moment I find something even remotely useful for a problem I faced and solved, I am saving it on the Internet Archive.
And I try to not be DenverCoder9
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Hate it when I search an issue and the only other person with the same problem is me 5 years ago and I didn’t figure it out then either.
I think it's worse when they say they found a solution and include a link which is now dead.
With Google dropping its archive I feel like dead links are going to be more and more common.
I hate the ones that are just "open a case" and then they close the thread without saying what the fix ended up being, looking at you Veeam forums.
So many of my searches lead to Microsoft forums where my exact issue is posted, MS asks for more information, then some auto-mod closes the issue because there wasn't any further follow up and they can't replicate it.
And it always marks the damn "thank you for contacting Microsoft" post as "the answer"
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Even worse in my opinion is when you find someone who had the same problem as you and the only person who replies says "use google." It's like that's how I got to this page!
"I'll upload a patch later this week" 12 years ago
Kinda relevant XKCD
thought about it, too!
(and... not sure if it's Jerboa, but the image appears emoji-sized to me. a bite-sized comic, hehe)
You describe your problem in the forum.
Moderator: "use Google, there is an answer to your question"
Google only gives you a link to your own thread in the forum.
Just post that the answer is simple:
can (root; split) for - 1 =sam if (all "null") then (n = n+1)
Watch the rage answers roll in.
More like when you Google and half the solutions you find contradict themselves, with some of the responses to the solutions discussing the dangers.
You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.
When you search*
I find it more frustrating when someone has already had the issue and received an answer, but unfortunately the solution is a link to a Microsoft forum that no longer exists.
Or: Plenty of people have the problem, but nobody has figured it out.
And: Stack Overflow agrees that this is a dumb thing to want to do, anyway.
Or it's a bug that was reported 5 years ago with 165 votes and somehow still not fixed
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I find if I'm the only one on the internet having a problem unless it's a very specific niche application I'm probably doing something fundamentally wrong in my approach and should try figure out how other people normally do it
It is usually this for me as well. I'm misunderstanding something or I completely looked over a basic thing.
Neiche application like old industrial equipment. Sure 90% of it is well documented and properly sourced. Still there's always that one piece of equipment purchasing got because it was cheap with no documentation and just a safety placard from the 90s. Regardless it needs to be integrated and you bet your ass no one has ever searched that. Then you're back to basics, sometimes even BASIC.
So so so much worse when the comment is deleted and OP replies "thanks!"
OP: "Nevermind, I figured it out on my own. Thanks anyway." and doesn't share what they did drives me up the wall.
I play the numbers.... When this happens to me I assume I'm asking the wrong question
That's actually good advice
Sometimes asking the right question is the hard part
Hah.. I used to search up an issue and see my own unanswered question on reddit as the first result. ಠ_ಠ
My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.
But have you tried askjeeves?
They had the answer on Yahoo! Answers. 😢
Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!
Or you can ask on SO. Then close it with "nvm, fixed".
Or you can explain it to a SO until you realise what's wrong yourself
A pet or rubber duck will do if you don't have a SO handy
Or you can explain it to a SO
Yeah that's usually the expression they end up with by the end
for me when that happens, it usually turns out to be a simple but stupid mistake on my end
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