I spent some time searching, but didn’t find anything directly related to this… Is there a way to undelete a category? More specifically I need to recover the “about this category” topic that resided from a newly created category… that I then deleted. Tried poking around with different URLs in my …

I guess ./launcher enter app then rails c and Topic.with_deleted.where(id: 7078).recover! …but I tried and didn’t work as expected. Not sure why :thinking: You’d have to change its category_id too I think. With the post number you could try: Post.with_deleted.where(id: the_post_id).pluck("ra…

Welp, any ideas? I’m not even sure what I’d search for in the DB. [image] From working backwards with the topicID in the URL, the topicID that I think I need to recover is 7078, perhaps I can do something with this number?

[image] Benjamin_D: Post.with_deleted.where(topic_id: 7078).pluck(“raw”) Thanks, this got me the text from the post which is good enough!

Undelete A Category? (Or the "about this category" topic that was under it)

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SouperC (NotSoSuper) March 20, 2021, 1:48am 5

Thanks, this got me the text from the post which is good enough!

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Undelete A Category? (Or the "about this category" topic that was under it)

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