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I asked this by email a while back, and I can neither remember the answer, nor find the email.  I think it’s archived onto a drive that’s not connected to my machine at the moment.  I also think I recall the answer being confusing.  So, please forgive my asking again, but…

...if a person’s goal were to get everything—all traks—and said person purchased all nine (9) of the “Large trakPacks,” would said person then have pretty much everything?  In other words, are all the smaller packs included, one way or another (by hook or by crook) all nine of the larger packs?

Or is it the case that even if a person purchased all nine of the large packs, there would still be some content in smaller packs that would need to be purchased additionally if one wanted absolutely everything?  And, if so, is there a list, somewhere, which shows which small packs are included in which large packs; and, therefore, which small packs would need to be purchased, in addition to all nine large packs, in order to get absolutely everything?

Which brings me to a suggestion:  Why not figure out what absolutely everything would cost, then maybe discount it a little as incentive to purchase it, and then offer it on your site, too?  Just a thought.

Thanks!

Hi Gregg,

Thanks for the post. Yes, if you brought all 9 Large trakPacks, you would have the entire collection. We have given each Large trakPack a genre title, for example “Large trakPack Dance - Disco House” which contains all 10 bundles of the smaller individual disco house packs. Therefore if you buy all the different Large trakPacks genres, you will have all the individual small packs.

Thank you very much for the feedback and we will certainly consider grouping all the Large trakPacks together and selling them as one download at a discount price.

Thanks,

Colm

Thank you, very much.

I don’t know why I have it stuck in the back of my mind that the first answer I got to my question, via email… oh… I dunno… two or three years ago, maybe longer… was somehow unsatisfying; nor can I remember in precisely what way it was unsatisfying…

...but your answer here, today, is perfect!  Thank you!

Part of my reason for asking it again here, though, instead of via another email, is so that it will become part of the record, here, in these support forums, where I can search for it and find it if I ever forget the answer again.

Plus others can learn from it, too… which, of course, is one of the big benefits of doing support in public forums like this.

Again, thanks!

Just FYI…

I received the following email message today…

Gregg L. DesElms, someone just posted
a reply to a topic you subscribed to at:
TrakAx Forums

The title of the thread is:
How to get them all

The post can be found at:
http://www.trakax.com/software/forum/viewreply/4189/

If you have Smart Notifications enabled, you will not receive any further
notifications until you visit the topic.

To stop receiving notifications for this topic, click here:
http://www.trakax.com/software?ACT=[redacted]

Post Info:

Title: How to get them all
Message:This post is really fantastic. Thanks for your posting

...but when I clicked on the “the post can be found at” link, I got this message…

Error
The following errors were encountered
The specified thread does not exist

...which is clearly not true since here I am in the “How to get them all” thread (which I had to find by searching for it, here).

My heart immediately sank because I stupidly hadn’t paid attention to the actual URL that was behind the one displayed in the email, and on which I clicked, and so I worried that I had just been Phished, and had, then, just given someone my login and password to this forum.  As someone with pushing 40 years in IT, I know better.  However, I also have three—count ‘em, three—anti-phishing measures in place, and they’re so effective that I confess I’ve become stupidly uncareful about such things.  I won’t be making that mistake again anytime soon.

At any rate, upon hovering my mouse pointer above the link in the email, and noticing that to which it linked in the lower-leftmost corner of the browser (and also after looking at the raw source code of the email message), I could see that it really and truly linked to this forum.

Still, it briefly scared the bejesus outta’ me!

Could whomever manages this forum please figure out what happened?  Was it as simple as that someone posted something here, but then deleted it after I was sent the message that there was a new reply?  And, if so, then might a more descriptive error message that just says that that’s what happened—and not that the thread, itself, doesn’t exist—be more appropriate?  Is this forum software not capable of that?  And if it’s not, then could you not contact the forum software maker and insist that that be something it adds in a future update?

And could both s/he and the forum software maker please, now, also see, from what I’ve herein written, how disconcerting it can be to the user whenever whatever happened happens?  And so, then, could s/he please ensure that it doesn’t happen again?

Thanks!

Hi Gregg

Thanks for your mail and we are sorry for the alarm.

On our forum ,we use the Askimet Spam Catcher plug in http://akismet.com/ which is one of the biggest and best spam catchers in forum development. Spam is the scourge of all forums as am sure you are well aware. Recently some Japanese spam has been sent into our forum and the Askimet plugin was having issues defining key words in Japanese, therefore getting through. We were constantly monitoring the forum and deleting these post as soon as they posted, (hence this post does not exist). We believe the plugin has identified these Japanese post and is now working correctly.

We are sorry for this but we are taking every precaution to eradicate spam mail from this forum.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions

Best regards

Cormac

Understood.  Thanks for the explanation.

Still, when a post is deleted, the error message that the forum kicks when the link directly to said now-deleted post is clicked-on should indicate that the post has, for whatever reason, been deleted…

...and not that the forum thread, itself, does not exist.

As I recall, you’re using the Expression Engine forum.  Could not the Expression Engine people be referred to this thread so they can see a cogent example of the havoc wrought by their existing (and obviously inaccurate) error message, so that they could update their forum software with more granularly-refined (and so, then, more accurate) error messages in a future release?  It would just be another “to do” item on their list which they could easily work-in to their next update.

Just a suggestion; just tryin’ to help.

Its really wonderful post and thanks for sharing this informative info.