I'm not sure what is going on but I have lost forums.
When I go to the Forums Setting Screen some forum entries are blank. All that is there in the Category that they belong too.
If I click on details I can see some of the data.
In MySQL I can find the entries on the table.
They are not visible to the Forums Listing for members.
When I try to fix one another disappears!!!!
It seems like there is a pointer problem.

ANY IDEAS???? HELP???

I don't want to move to 7.3 with the database in this shape.

Thanks
Larry

Which version are you currently running?

Oh, that was dumb, it might help too!!

UBB - 7.2.2
MySQL - 4.1.22-standard
Appache 1.3.39 Unix

Does it happen only to you or all users that visit the site?
What if you clear the cache in CP

May want to also do a database repair/check

Only happens when I try to add new forums.
Cleared cache already.
I'm not up on MySQL but I just found a Repair/Check option in my maintainance panel.
I ran a check.
Two table got the comment that the Storage enginr for the table doesn't support check.
Table were ONLINE and TOPIC_VIEWS
ALl others were OK.


Thanks

IF check didn't ind any errors, is it OK to run the "Repair" anyway? Not being a MySQL person, I'm not sure what may happen.
I assume I should close down the forums while doing this?

I just don't want to take a bad database to 7.3.

Any and all ideas are welcomed.

Thanks

My forums are now in a self destruct mode.
Every time I have to do a change to a forum one disappears.
I can enable it but the description is gone!!!.

I can't move to 7.3 in this shape.

Try firing up phpmyadmin and looking directly at the ubbt_FORUMS table and see if the forum is still in there.

Hi Rick:
I've done that and they are there.
I was able to cut and paste some data out of them and create new forums but when I do another forum or 2 would disappear.
Now this morning I'm playing with the Forums in the Control panel. I can move some of the entries that get wiped out. I should say whose pointers get wiped out.
It looks like the "enabled" indicator, title, the "order" and description for each of those forums is all that is lost. The posts are all there.
While playing around trying to figure this out, I realized this problems only seems to occur when I used that Category screen in the control panel to assign and order to the "lost" forums is when the problem occurs.
I'm beginning to think the Category Maint screen code is corrupted.
Maybe I'll upload a fresh copy of it from my PC when I get home tomorrow.
What's your thoughts??
And thanks for responding on Mothers' Day.

New status. the problem occurs when I update anything on the Category or Forum summary pages.
If I go into the Forum Pages and select Details I can change the title of the forum and enable it, even assign it to a different category and all the post are there for it. (I haven't checked them all, but I will.) Currently, I have them all in categories that only Admin can view.
I'm letting them sit there until I can be assured the problem will not mirgate to 7.3. Don't know how that's going to happen but ......