Typically, the Inbox will only contain private messages where either:
- You received the private message sent by someone else.
- Someone has replied to a private message that you sent.
I’ve noticed with importing from other boards that private messages in category #2 don’t appear to show properly in the Inbox, even when the topic does have replies. This appears to be due to a condition on the query for the Inbox that pertains to the participant_count field of the topic. The importer doesn’t properly update this field, so it is set to 1 by default. When the participant_count is 1, the query will not return that topic for display in the Inbox view.
To fix this, you’ll need to either adjust the importer to include a count of participants in the private message, or update the participant count after the import, which can be accomplished by running this on the rails console:
Topic.private_messages.map(&:update_statistics)
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