My mistake. Our galleries are on the new forum, no problems. Sorry to take up your time!
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Hello @paulo thanks for your kind message. You can delete my old data. I donāt use it anymore. Thanks a lot. With love from a very happy Postcrosser 
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Hi! I saved all the necessary information from the old forum on my computer. Now I only use the new forum. thanks for your kindness! my data can be deleted.
Hello @paulo, how can I access the u2u on the old forum? I would like to double check if I still have any important messages left.
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I am not Paulo, but I can also give you an answer.
You can access your U2uās just like you used it before .
Log in as you have always done and click on u2u in the top right-hand corner.
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Iāve done a quick run down for the U2Us to see if thereās anything I should keepā¦
Iāll do it more thoroughly laterā¦
Thanks for letting us know 
Thatās really a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet thing to do,thank you Paulo.
There is one disadvantage when logins on the old forum are disabled:
Usernames on the official site and on the old forum often were different.
On the new forum, they have to be the same as the official Postcrossing user name.
Example: Our dear @meiadeleite was known in the old forum as Ana. Assumed that I have to search for my friend Ana from the old forum, I cannot find her here anymore, instead I find an Ukrainian user with this name.
As long as I can log in to the old forum, I can have a look at the member list and can see which offical postcrossing name is behind a forum name (old).
When logins are disabled, this possibility is gone.
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Hum, thatās true. Unfortunately the āPostcrossing usernameā field appears in the profile pages which wonāt be accessible anymore. Making profile pages visible without login would make public information that is not visible now (without login), which wouldnāt be correct.
I think itās quite rare that to be needed, but could consider posting a list somewhere of all the (old) forum username/Postcrossing username combinations (those that differ) for reference, but I wonder if it may also cause some confusion too as the Postcrossing username may now belong to someone else entirely by now (which was true even before as there was no proper check other than that it existed an account with that username at the time).
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would be helpfulā¦ (if you donāt have to put much work into thatā¦)
I think if the list contains a note that the old username could now belong to someone else there will be no confusionā¦
Just my thoughtsā¦
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Thank you very much for the advance notice, Paulo! I saw it late, but not too late. 
In 2021 I tried to save my U2Us, but couldnāt log in, now it worked (after I remembered that the old forum is at forum.postcrossing.com - I couldnāt find a link on the Postcrossing homepage), and I have saved them all and deleted them afterwards. All done now, thank you very much! Iām very happy that you will keep the old forum available read-only - the information on past meet-ups and meet-up cards is very important for me. 
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Following up on what we announced in May, today we have disabled the login on the old forum.
We have removed the most sensitive data from the database such as the email addresses and the existing (encrypted) passwords, as well as some other personal data like (old) social media links (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, ā¦). We have also removed all private messages (U2Us) on the database which was also one of our main concerns.
For those who may miss the mapping from an old forum username to the main website ones, thereās a basic mapping list available here. It only includes those whose forum username didnāt match the main website one. We canāt guarantee any accuracy on that as it may have been wrong from the start (there was no proper check) and usernames on main website may have changed in the meantime too.
I donāt expect any further changes to the old forum and weāll keep it running in the same read-only mode going forward, just without logins.
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hmmmā¦
Just found the first error, Kroete is not Turtles here but Kroete68ā¦ 
I then looked up the fourth Bielefeld-thread in the old forum, looking for posts from Kroete but I found none! I have saved this thread and when I saved it in the past there were 17 pages - now only 14ā¦ so lots of posts are missingā¦ I doubt that they were deleted by usersā¦
any idea, why?
Youāll have to bring that up with her. 
That I donāt knowā¦ if you can email me your copy Iāll see if I can make sense of the differences.
ok, ok, I didnāt check all pages, I was looking for certain posts.
BUT!
Just forget and forgive meā¦
I compared the English thread to the German threadā¦
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Hello,
Iām returning after successfully finding my username. Is there ANY way to recover my messages (u2us)?
Thank you.
Regards,
Randy
Aināt no way
It doesnt apear that U2Us are available at all. Can you see them? I am looking only for my u2us.
nobody can see them, they are no longer available, no way to access them.
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