Hi, anyone clicking my Terms of Service, FAQ or Privacy pages just gets a blank page with a permanently spinning ‘busy’ pointer. How do I correct this? How do I make this information available and bring it to the attention to any potential user who visits the site url, but has yet to sign up for p…

[image] Paul_King: Can anyone please advise how to reinstate the built in legal topics and IDs (or even just put blank editable posts at the correct /original urls for each built-in legal topic), via postgres, or otherwise? OK, looks like nobody can help with this. Would recreating the forum…

[image] Paul_King: Or would restoring the backup just propagate the deletions again? I think that it would sorry. Somewhere in that database is the little bit of data that you must change to make those posts appear once more. Here in fact: In the ‘topics’ table, deleted_at will have a times…

[image] nathank: In the ‘topics’ table, deleted_at will have a timestamp for ID 4, 5, and 6. If you can delete these (replace with nothing / blank) then you will be back in business. Thanks Nathan. Sadly, I set myself up following the official tutorial, with little comprehension. I did have…

[image] nathank: In the ‘topics’ table, deleted_at will have a timestamp for ID 4, 5, and 6. If you can delete these (replace with nothing / blank) then you will be back in business. Hi again - in my lame way, I tried the following query in Data Explorer , and got no relevant hits for messages…

Good to see your Data Explorer skills! Those topics are definitely in the topics table. Try this: SELECT id, title, deleted_at FROM topics Order by id Limit 10 You should get something like this: [Screenshot 2020-05-09 at 06.39.37] PS you might also need to change deleted_by_id

Hey @Paul_King , have you tried this? [image] How can I delete or undelete topics? Support Search example.com/latest?status=deleted, find the deleted topic and click the Un-delete button [image]

[image] nathank: Try this: SELECT id, title, deleted_at FROM topics Order by id Limit 10 Thanks Nathan - a great suggestion However the lowest topic ID found amongst deleted topics is 20 [2020-05-09_11h43_22]

Do you have any of 1-10? It appears not. It could be that rebuilding the site from scratch and then merging the databases in some way is the way forwards. Or get hacking that postgres!

How can I delete or undelete topics? Search example.com/latest?status=deleted , find the deleted topic and click the Un-delete button [image] Hi Nathan - that definitely lists a bunch of deleted topics, but none of the pre-seeded ones missing from the staff category

[image] nathank: It could be that rebuilding the site from scratch and then merging the databases in some way is the way forwards. Or get hacking that postgres! I am wondering if I even can hack the database to cancel deletions if there is no sign of the missing pre-seeded posts ever having e…

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nathank (Nathan Kershaw) May 8, 2020, 8:54pm 23

Hey @Paul_King, have you tried this?

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