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Topic: Database entries not displaying

Posted By: fathom
Subject: Database entries not displaying
Date Posted: 12 January 2005 at 4:00am

Urgent!!!

I was taking a walk through the forum this morning and had a bit of a freak out. Most of the posts are missing.

Thankfully the database seems intact but I am no db expert.

This really is worrying. Any ideas?

http://www.solidpda.com/forum - http://www.solidpda.com/forum

Brad

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 January 2005 at 6:17am

What database version are you using??

If it is access make sure you have the database outside of your web root where it can not be downloaded or over written through a web browser.

Make sure that all admin and moderator passwords are changed and difficult to guess.

Make sure that someone hasn't accidently overwritten the database through FTP with an old back-up copy.

Access often becomes corrupted and does loose keys etc. a compact and repair on the database may sort out the problem.

Lastly, if you are using Access, DON'T switch to MS SQL Server which is much more secure, handle more connections, and doesn't get corrupted all the time like Access.

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Posted By: fathom
Date Posted: 12 January 2005 at 8:12am

I am using access. the database is outside the root.

The funny thing is that the forum reads the correct number of threads

in the Topics column but when you go in to a forum there are only a few threads.

I have downloaded the database and it seems ok.

Any other ideas?

Brad

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 January 2005 at 8:27am

For most of your forums the drop down show topics list is set to show topics posted in the last week.

If you change this to 'All' you will see all the topics in that forum.

The default for the drop down list for each forum can be set in the admin area for each forum on the forums setup page where you set forum title etc.

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Posted By: fathom
Date Posted: 12 January 2005 at 8:58am

PHEW! thanks borg! thats a load off!

Brad