# "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:** [June 26, 2019, 4:26pm 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:** ![ale\_m](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ale_m/32/204917_2.png) [@ale\_m](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ale_m)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorry-you-have-no-access-to-that-topic-after-mod-converts-a-topic-into-a-personal-message/121411/7 "2019-06-27T15:49:50Z")

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Hey, I tried again and this time it worked (I was able to access the DM).

Some info:

- The post was created 1 hour ago by a regular user (who also joined 1 hour ago)
- I clicked on the tab on the right \> Make Personal Message \> the page reloaded and the post was made into a DM with me and the user, as expected

So there must be something else behind it - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

(If it helps, I have noticed that this might only happen when the user has posted twice in the same thread (i.e. two posts in a row), but I’m not 100% sure).

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