2009/1/29 Jeff Jibson <[email protected]>: > I am probably stating the obvious, but it looks like only forums got > deleted. At the bottom, it lists posts and topics. I tried going to > a post that was in my browser's history and it comes back with "You > are not authorised to read this forum."
No they've not been deleted (besides which I have daily backups of the database, up to the point I went and broke the forums, so there's no loss of data). I somehow buggered up the "permissions" -- or at least what PhpBB's concept of them is, and although I have tried to put them back correctly I'm clearly missing a step -- but it's non-obvious to me what that is. I even followed the documentation and did everything it suggested, so... > I don't know anything about phpBB, but if you need any help with busy > work type stuff to recover it, I am willing to spend some time > helping. Thanks, but there's not a lot you can do. What was it you were wanting from them, out of interest? -- Thomas Adam
