bsilcox Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 I think this is where this goes... I'm working with an old version of SMF (simple machine forums). I think it's 1.2. (Yes, I know. It's very old.) The forum got heavily spammed because it went inactive for a while. I think that's why the smf_messages table crashed. I'm trying to restore the table so I can clean up the forum. Or, at least, save the old posts in some way. I have tried repairing the table... I even found something called REPAIR TABLE smf_messages USE_FRM.... Unfortunately, when I did that... All the posts seemed to vanish from the board. Completely. Though, the board still said page 1 of ___ pages of posts. Just no topics. It was odd. The spam posts weren't a big loss, but I did want the other ones. Any thoughts? Even links of where I should go to find what I need to fix it? The forum is at http://ashidai.org/nox/ - though because of the crashed table, you really can't see much. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Can't you repair the table using phpMyAdmin in cPanel? Quote
bsilcox Posted March 3, 2010 Author Posted March 3, 2010 It would help to subscribe to replies, wouldn't it? >.> (*feels dumb* sorry! ) I did try that. That's when the posts just - disappeared. Members were fine... Private messages were fine... Forum Categories were fine... No topics in the forums themselves... It was really, really strange! (not to mention, I'm not entirely sure what the USE_FRM means... *blush* - but hte website I found abotu fixing a crashed table mentioned it....) Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 Time for a help desk ticket me thinks, to see if they can do some magic. Link on top of page and in my signature. Quote
bsilcox Posted March 4, 2010 Author Posted March 4, 2010 Thanks, Thomas. I've submitted a ticket. I guess I'll have to wait and see. (= Quote
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