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Recommendations for giving your most effective help here:

• • Don't use a search engine to come here. Too often they will lead you to locked threads.
  • Bookmark this Apple site map showing all forum topic areas: Site Map - Apple Community
  • From that list, find the topic areas where you feel you can best contribute.
  • Use the site map links to go that those topics.
  • Work the NEWEST questions first.

After a very long time here, I've observed that few people who post a question will come back weeks or months later to see if new responses have been added.

For asking questions about an issue you may have:

As for adding your issue, or "exact same problem," to an existing thread, best practice is "don't. It is very hard for us to help more than one person per thread. Tag-ons confuse the responders and dilute the attention the original poster ("OP") deserves.

Tagging on an existing question with a "me too" is much like someone barging into a doctor's exam room to ask about his medical issue while the doctor is treating someone else.

So Welcome! I look forward to seeing your helpful responses here.

AJ

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means the thread has been locked for inactivity or age. Also, in my long tenure here I have seen very few posters who come back weeks or months later to look for new answers to their threads.

If you come here from a search engine, you may see a lot of those banners. Search engines are not conducive to effectively helping here.

The better way to help here:

• Bookmark this forum site map: Site Map - Apple Community
• From that map, choose topic areas where you feel you can help.
• Use the site map links to go directly to those topics lists and work the first one or two pages.

That way, posters get current information and can recognize your contributions with an upvote.

Possibly because the particular thread has been closed due to inactivity.

Possibly because you are not logged in.

If these are not the issues, could you post a link to the thread?

You are welcome.