# Name changes affect the search oddly. Example  Attrayant (neé opus) \[Note Enderw23!\]

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**Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changes-affect-the-search-oddly-example-attrayant-nee-opus-note-enderw23/40475/1 "2000-11-09T16:44:31Z")

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I guess you did it. But they didn’t tell you everything.  
Remember asking this? in **[Changing my SN - Enderw23](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45116)**

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> \*Originally posted by Attrayant \*\*\*I’ve long been thinking about changing my screen name, even more since the somewhat recent addition of a member who shall remain nameless by the name of Opus1.
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> My main reason for not changing it was that I didn’t know if all of my past posts would be updated to reflect the new name. Would all of my previous posts be updated with my new user name? Would my new identity hold my current post count or would I be reset to single digits? \*\*

They never mentioned the side effect of not being able to search on your name and get all the old threads.  
You get those from present-11/9 and 2/5-earlier, but the ones from 11/8-2/6 are only found by searching for “opus”

BTW, I put your \*\*¦:¬þ \*\*icon on my icon site as “opusfav”, so I guess I’ll change it to “Attrayantfav”.

Have fun, Attracting!