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Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:58 am
by Bruno
Hello,

I've begun to search in Administration Control Panel and I found the possibility to download the database but as I'm at work I can't tell now how to use it.
Regards.

Bruno

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:42 am
by ME453
Thank you Bruno, that's very interesting. I've asked the question of Larry, he has replied that the Forum is still intact and "sleeping" but could be resurrected fairly easily if someone was prepared to run it but sorting out Dennis' posts from over 30000 posts was difficult.
Max

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:01 am
by Charles
Thanks for the updates re LAF, chaps. If Bruno can find a way of downloading the posts, I'm sure there must be techies around who could sort out the different posts, Thwre was a lot of good material there, including Dennis's posts of course. I remember being quite chuffed that I had just reached a new rank (was it for 175 posts?) just before Larry pulled the plug. And then of course they all vanished! I should have been more assiduous in keeping a copy of my own posts but of course, apart from a very few drafts of longish pieces, I don't have them.

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:14 am
by kookabat
sorting out Dennis' posts from over 30000 posts was difficult.
No it's not. You can search by author.

I was in the process of doing exactly that, and copying the text from Dennis' posts (with his permission) when the forum disappeared. Ended up with maybe 80 of them.

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:41 pm
by ME453
kookabat wrote:
sorting out Dennis' posts from over 30000 posts was difficult.
No it's not. You can search by author.

I was in the process of doing exactly that, and copying the text from Dennis' posts (with his permission) when the forum disappeared. Ended up with maybe 80 of them.
Agreed Adam, I just don't think Larry has the interest or the motivation to do anything about it at all.
Max

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:10 am
by K4KittyCrew
Gentlemen,
I may have found a way to access the LAF records.
I've used this site numerous times before to access RAF War Diaries.
Sometimes it works ( very well ) ........ sometimes you can't access.

I've just done a search on the http://www.lancaster-archive.com/ ............ and it does show up.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct= ... 4040,d.dGY
All you need to do is click on a given date and it will show activity for that date.

I've only just started searching but can't access the individual posts, as yet.
I'll keep trying.
John

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Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 2:49 pm
by ME453
Looks promising John, you'll be recruited by the Aussie MI5 before you know it! :)
Max

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:00 pm
by ME739
Very sad to hear of Dennis's passing.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Neale

Re: Dennis Over

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:23 pm
by Jake Drummond
I was shocked to read this afternoon of the passing of a very pleasant man; Dennis Over. We had many chats on the telephone, and I had suspected that something may have been amiss when calls failed to reach the number. Dennis will be happily "floating above the clouds, with nothing above but endless sky" as he once said.
RIP Dennis.