I can’t delete topics and am wondering why that is. Using the forum software I get a 500 Internal Server Error Using the console: $ cd /var/discourse/ $ sudo -s # ./launcher enter app # rake destroy:topics["Redaktion"] Going to delete all topics in the Redaktion category There are 102 topics to d…

Indeed, adding a group to the category (and all subcategories) did work. Thank you very much.

rails c [1] pry(main)> Topic.find(84010).destroy Killed that topic, but I still can’t delete stuff from the browser.

Its on a desktop pc running on Slack, sitting right next to me, so no provider. It contains a rather large import from smf. Deleting topics used to work, suddenly stopped. I’m trying to reorganise the import into a structure more suitable to discourse - the old forum had a lot of depth in its struc…

I have now dumped, wiped and reimported the database. That made everything a little bit faster, but the problem remains.

Take a look at this. Are you trying to work with a restricted category which hasn’t got any groups attached to it? [image] MessageBus::InvalidMessageTarget (MessageBus::InvalidMessageTarget) bug When trying to create a new topic in a specific category, I get a 500 error. I…

[image] fzngagan: Take a look at this. Are you trying to work with a restricted category which hasn’t got any groups attached to it? Yes! I have just tried to delete a topic somewhere else on that forum, and that works. It might indeed be a problem with the import from smf that attached the …

Can't delete topics - Error 500, rake aborted!

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fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan) November 30, 2021, 7:43am 8

Take a look at this. Are you trying to work with a restricted category which hasn’t got any groups attached to it?

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Can't delete topics - Error 500, rake aborted!

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