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Dear admins,

it seems that some threads or even users have recently (~ 2 days or so) disappeared. Examples: giuliangiuseppe and greycells. The latter asked me for the solution I provided earlier this week.

What happened? Can you help?

Regards
R�diger

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Thanks for the notice... Will look into this tonight !

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Sorry, but searching around, I cannot find any evidence or indication of any threads missing or delete by the users giuliangiuseppe and greycells.

Thread do not "delete themselves" ... and only mods and admins have the privs to delete threads, regular members cannot delete their own threads.

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I've got a "Reply to thread 'Remove duplicates based on more fields and filter'" (giuliangiuseppe) here with the link "http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=264511&goto=newpost which can't be accessed any more.
Same is valid for http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=264504&goto=newpost by greycells.

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I can confirm some on RudiC doubts.

For instance on the front page of unix.com, Linux section, under Last Post column there is a
http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=264506

Or viewed like
Mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1... , answered by RudiC but i'm unable to follow link.

Hope that helps.
Regards
Peasant.

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Thanks.

OK....in the night when site is less busy, I'll try to optimize / repair the database and see if that helps.

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Also, after looking into this a bit more, seems there could be an issue with DragonByte Tech: SEO software that does URL Rewrites for Forum URLs...

Please post any other errors and I'll look into this in more detail during the weekend slow period.

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OK... have checked, repaired and optimized the database tables.

Later this weekend I'll update the forum counters, etc and see if this resolves the issue.

EDIT: Those threads are missing from the database, oddly enough. I'll look deeper into this.

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OK, I checked the database and threads 264504 and 264506 are "gone"... there is no row entry for those two threads.

I'll check the PHP and MySQL error log files to see if there is further info.

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Hmmm. Checked all the PHP and MySQL log files and did not find any errors that would be associated with these missing threads.

Let's keep an eye on things, perhaps (hopefully) it was just a fluke errors.

Thanks for everyones help on this.

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Heya

Just wanted to link to the TUI thread within the "Shell Scripting & Programming" thread but could not find it.
Also searching for it didnt find the expected/searched thread.

Are you preparing the 'new structure' already?