Wondering if this can be done and if so how?
Thanks for any help! Rod
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You can. Copy and paste the info from the old topic to the new.
Another option is to copy the link from the other topic.
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@RSJB18 posted:You can. Copy and paste the info from the old topic to the new.
Another option is to copy the link from the other topic.
Do you copy and paste the posts one at a time? I tried copying multiple posts at the same time and it was a dogs breakfast to say the least! 
Rod
@Rod Stewart posted:Do you copy and paste the posts one at a time? I tried copying multiple posts at the same time and it was a dogs breakfast to say the least!
Rod
I would say that you would have to copy the text from each post and paste into your new one. If you are trying to copy all the headers and reply boxes, it's going to look like a train wreck..... or what come out the other end of said dog......
I started the new topic
A Track AC Powered Marker Led Board for Use In Cabeese
but couldn't figure out how to copy other members posts into it. Can't see a way to do that?
Rod
Why would you even want to do this? Copy ONE post into a new thread - OK.
Copy a series of old posts into a new thread? I can see this causing a terrible mess.
@Rod Stewart posted:Wondering if this can be done and if so how?
Thanks for any help! Rod
I guess I’m not getting your point, or what you’re trying to do. Why would you want to start a new topic using posts from another topic? Then it really wouldn’t be a new topic, would it? 🤔
Excellent question. The original topic is about converting MTH passenger cars to led lighting. Then along the way it somehow morphed into a discussion about marker leds for cabeese. Which is quite different.
So that's why! Rod
@Rich Melvin posted:Why would you even want to do this? Copy ONE post into a new thread - OK.
Copy a series of old posts into a new thread? I can see this causing a terrible mess.
Sorry Rich; didn't see your post before answering Vern's post above. Does it make sense?
Rod
@Rod Stewart posted:Excellent question. The original topic is about converting MTH passenger cars to led lighting. Then along the way it somehow morphed into a discussion about marker leds for cabeese. Which is quite different.
Rather than try to copy a group of individual posts, I think you'd do better to post *one* link to the chain of posts you're trying to divert to a new and separate thread (with an explanation giving directions on the topic you want to highlight), then separately post copies of any individual posts to which you want to reply or expand upon. IOW, a general link to the part of the preceding thread you're trying to separately discuss, and thereafter post copies of posts relevant to the ongoing new discussion. That way, you provide research/review access to the entire prior thread at need, without cluttering up the new thread with (likely mostly irrelevant ) archive posts. Just MHO . . .
Perhaps better option for this would be to ask the moderators to fork a post into an entirely new topic.
You won't see this as an option on your screens, but we moderators do. Just use "Report Reply" to report the post and ask that it be used to fork into an entirely new topic. This will only bring the reported post into the new topic, but that's better than the copy and paste method.
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Cool, I didn't know you had that option. 
That sounds good Rich; I'll give that a try. I figured there must be a way to do it! 
Rod
@Rich Melvin posted:Perhaps better option for this would be to ask the moderators to fork a post into an entirely new topic.
You won't see this as an option on your screens, but we moderators do. Just use "Report Reply" to report the post and ask that it be used to fork into an entirely new topic. This will only bring the reported post into the new topic, but that's better than the copy and paste method.
Useful info, Rich, but wouldn't that leave the "forked" message orphaned from the rest of the following responses to it, or are they moved (or at least linked) also? If the "forked" message (and I'll forego the obvious joke here . . . 
) is removed from the prior thread, that might also muck up the clarity of *that* thread.
I still think posting a link to the prior discussion in the old thread, plus perhaps copies of selected posts as relevant, to the new thread (plus perhaps a redirecting post in the old thread), would be the cleaner way to relocate the ongoing discussion. Just sayin' . . . 
Uumm Rich; it appears that all that got "forked" over was the very last post in the original topic; whereas there was several posts above that I was hoping to capture also. Is that a limitation in the system, or can we redo it?
Rod
Read my post again…
”…This will only bring the reported post into the new topic…”
Is there a way to stick that fork into more than one message?
No.
@Rich Melvin posted:Read my post again…
”…This will only bring the reported post into the new topic…”
Ok got it thanks!
The problem is when you open one of your own posts, there is no “Report Reply” option. (Kind of makes sense) So I went to the post immediately above where I thought it should fork and asked to have everything thereafter “forked”.
Rod
Rich thanks for cleaning up the mess I made with the attempted fork. It looks loads better now!
Rod
