ScotlandsPeople - saved searches and images

[Gadget]

I took them at their word when they said the previous searches and images would be available.

So did I    Although I knew that I had backups of the important images. I haven't checked all of my saved images but the other ones that I've looked at so far are there. It was just those two - both saved  on the same date.

I've got 522 pages of saved images, going back to 30/07/2003.

[hurworth]

I only joined in 2014, so have a lot less to lose.

[trish58]

It is unusual for them not to reply sooner than this, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they will be in touch soon, the site must be overloaded, I will try not to go into panic mode until I hear from them.
 

Trish

[rosie17]

It is unusual for them not to reply sooner than this, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they will be in touch soon, the site must be overloaded, I will try not to go into panic mode until I hear from them.
 

Trish

Yes I think we are giving them a hard time 
Rosie

[Forfarian]

Yes I think we are giving them a hard time 

Probably. They must expect that when they make a change of this sort.

The thing that troubles me about the saved searches is that if the search was conducted using parameters that worked on the old site but don't work on the new, they are effectively useless.

[hurworth]

and I REALLY dislike the start screen.

I don't want to stick someone's name on the first page.

I want to go straight to wills, or parish baptisms or statuatory marriages etc and start searching there.    Like I used to.

It's enough to make me a crabbit get.

[scotmum]

The thing that troubles me about the saved searches is that if the search was conducted using parameters that worked on the old site but don't work on the new, they are effectively useless.

Something similar happened with 'parameter' changes back in, from memory, 2004. It affected quite a number of my previous searches at the time and although they did eventually compensate me with 'credits', it meant having to trawl through, find and re-do searches. I was most unhappy and tried reasoning with them that surely they could re-programme the system to provide the previous searches under both the original and revised parameters, but they wouldn't budge. The original searches became, as you have said, effectively useless, yet even now, 12 years later, the search 'title', time and date undertaken are still listed in 'previous searches'. 

[Forfarian]

I want to go straight to wills, or parish baptisms or statutory marriages etc and start searching there.    Like I used to.

I contacted SP about this point too, because I found the home page confusing, and was unhappy about having to make extra clicks and wait for pages to load.

Click on 'Advanced People Search' and then bookmark the search page. When you want to use the site, click on your bookmark. When you log in you will be taken straight to the search page. Works for me.

[buckhyne]

I want to go straight to wills, or parish baptisms or statutory marriages etc and start searching there.    Like I used to.

I contacted SP about this point too, because I found the home page confusing, and was unhappy about having to make extra clicks and wait for pages to load.

Click on 'Advanced People Search' and then bookmark the search page. When you want to use the site, click on your bookmark. When you log in you will be taken straight to the search page. Works for me.

Excellent tip