Fair enough you want us to use the new one, however I want to search on a post in the old Swaps section as I don't recall the username of the origional poster who I now need to contact again, couldn't you have closed them for posting but left them open a bit longer?

The old classifieds were kept (closed) on the forum for almost 2 weeks, with a notice of the date that they were going to be removed for a full week before they were removed.

Unfortunately, when they were removed they were truly removed, so it would not be possible to resurrect the old ads at this point.