How to regenerate FAQ and TOS pages?

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Hi everyone,

I may have deleted FAQ and TOS pages by mistake and I now have a spinning wheel when I click on the FAQ link on the hamburger menu, and “topic not found” for the TOS.

Should I just create these topics? Will they have the same link?
Is there a command to re-build these core files?

Thank you.

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Interesting. How did you manage to delete those topics? You shouldn’t be allowed to delete them in the UI.

First, let’s see if the topics are really gone.

./launcher enter app
rails c

Topic.with_deleted.exists?(SiteSetting.guidelines_topic_id)
Topic.with_deleted.exists?(SiteSetting.tos_topic_id)

If the topics are really gone, create two new topics in the Staff category and assign the topic ids in the rails console to the site settings.

SiteSetting.guidelines_topic_id = 4711 # replace with topic id
SiteSetting.tos_topic_id = 4712 # replace with topic id

SiteSetting.default_locale

And then replace the content of those topics by using the “Manual Update” described in Update seeded categories and topics

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Thank you so much @gerhard. Very helpful as always.
As soon as I get at a computer I’ll check this out.

We had a failed migration and wanted to keep discourse settings while deleting the migrated topics/categories. And because we had a “trash” folder with about 70k topics of trash, all written by “system”, we had to forcefully clear from the DB all topics created.

Is this the command for the “/privacy” page?

SiteSetting.privacy_topic_id = 4712 # replace with topic id

Thank you.

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Yes, that’s the correct site setting.

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[1] pry(main)> **Topic** .with_deleted.exists?( **SiteSetting** .guidelines_topic_id)
=> **false**
[2] pry(main)> **Topic** .with_deleted.exists?( **SiteSetting** .tos_topic_id)
=> **false**
[3] pry(main)>

They were indeed missing as suspected.

Thank you so much. It worked like a charm.

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