# "Sorry, you have no access to that topic!" after mod converts a topic into a personal message

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [6월 26, 2019, 4:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-you-have-no-access-to-that-topic-after-mod-converts-a-topic-into-a-personal-message/121411 "2019-06-26T16:26:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [6월 27, 2019, 9:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-you-have-no-access-to-that-topic-after-mod-converts-a-topic-into-a-personal-message/121411/14 "2019-06-27T21:46:36Z")

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I was able to reproduce this once by doing the following:

1. Topic was created by an admin 4 days ago
2. TL0 user replied and needed approval.
3. Post was approved by moderator.
4. When reply was 2 minutes old, the moderator made the topic a PM.
5. Moderator was invited and given access to the topic.

It seems like this may partially be related to the editing grace period expiring or the approval of the post.

Thanks @simon for assisting me in repro’ing this.

That being said, the behavior here feels really inconsistent and unexpected to me.

If a topic has one post by one user, mod is given access to PM when converted.

If a topic has two posts by one or more users, mod is not given access (except for the possible bug case above).

Would it make more sense if a topic is made a PM by a mod to automatically give them access as they’re probably doing this for a reason?

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