You can manually add it back in using a text editor, then update the email file and user index file - I've done this in the past. Rebuilding/ reindexing should clear it up then.
The "user posts show as unregistered" happens when the profile is no longer presant.
But it does sound like you're running out of space, could you go check how much you have available? (BEFORE CLEARING CACHE as the cache can get large space wise and clearing it before you check your space will be completely useless)
While the server may be huge, it's possible there's some sort of hard limit on the space your site can use. Usually can been seen if you are bumping up against the limit in the site's control panel.
BTW, "thanks for the reply" goes a long ways as well - attitude gets old too <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Originally posted by AllenAyres: [qb] While the server may be huge, it's possible there's some sort of hard limit on the space your site can use. [/qb]
Yes absolutely, I've been up against this when my board was hosted by a less lenient host.
I kept on running into all sorts of 'weirdness' - which the host put down to partition errors.
Is it possible that they are limiting the number of files you are allowed on disk? That could cause a similar behavior. You would expect it to return a Quota error, but sometimes they do nutty things to the OS. That is an angle worth investigating.
Originally posted by Ron M: [qb] Is it possible that they are limiting the number of files you are allowed on disk? That could cause a similar behavior. You would expect it to return a Quota error, but sometimes they do nutty things to the OS. That is an angle worth investigating. [/qb]
Again if I was running into any kind of file limitation size or quantity, posts would be failing left and right. They are not, they are working fine. I just randomly lose the account.
Have you ever noticed your boards returning blank pages, Internal Server Errors, timeouts, etc? Due to the way our file locking system works, it is impossible for files to be clobbered by internal processes. The only things that can cause member files to be blanked out would be killing the UBB process between the time it opens/truncates the file and has a chance to write to it, or an out of space condition.