Recall a post?
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Topic: Recall a post?
Posted By: evening_grosbea
Subject: Recall a post?
Date Posted: 22 December 2011 at 11:48pm
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About 30 days ago, I upgraded my forum to 10.3 In this upgrade, it seems to have changed the settings for each group which allowed a Newbe to delete a Very Important thread. This thread was about 20 posts long with thousands of views. I immediately called all of my moderators and they all pleaded innocence in deleting the thread. I was baffled. I checked all my groups and found that the upgrade I did changed the settings for all my groups that allowed delete and edit rights for all groups except guests. I have edited the rights back to the original settings. My questions are, Can I determine which member deleted the thread? Can I recover the thread? |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 December 2011 at 6:59am
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Upgrading from version 8 or 9 would not change permissions. Upgrading from version 7 does create a new permissions system with default settings which you are informed of during the upgrade. Even with Delete and Edit rights members can only delete or edit their own posts and not the posts of any others. Only a moderator or admin would have been able to delete a whole topic and all the posts in that topic. Once a post or topic is deleted it is permanently deleted from the database. Only hidden posts and topics can be restored. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: evening_grosbea
Date Posted: 23 December 2011 at 5:46pm
| OK - thanks for the info - That means that one of my moderators is not trusted. |
Posted By: evening_grosbea
Date Posted: 23 December 2011 at 6:05pm
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Is there any method of determining who deleted the topic?
By opening the database locally maybe?
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Posted By: evening_grosbea
Date Posted: 26 December 2011 at 1:44pm
| Bruce - I have checked all of the settings for USERS and confirm your post that no user could have possibly deleted this very important post on my forum, which confirms I have a "leak" in my Moderator group. Very Sad |
Posted By: Nick-V
Date Posted: 26 December 2011 at 4:05pm
| I hope you manage to recreate this important topic - I would be using data from a backup. |
Posted By: doug-hoff
Date Posted: 26 December 2011 at 4:55pm
There is not a way of determining this unless of course you have edited your includes/setup_options_inc.asp file to record who does what. On that file you can choose which actions are logged to a text file, and this would then show who is editing or deleting which posts/topics etc. If the thread or topic posts were very important your best bet would have been to take regular database backups in future so if needs be, you could restore the database at any given time. However bear in mind that if you did a database restore any posts that you or others might have done after that period would also not exist! |
evening_grosbea wrote:Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 27 December 2011 at 1:01pm
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This is why I run a "sandbox" at home, and can restore backups to my home SQL/forums, then find the topic, and at least recreate parts with copy and paste......it's a LOT of work, but doable if it's important enough.
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