All of a sudden, I am getting the error: "No posts exist for this topic" when I click on a particular FORUM post. I deleted a userID from the database and that could have contributed to my headaches.

Anyhow, I found that I can display the forum post by going directly to this URL:
http://www.mysite.com/modules.php?na...ic&t=7&start=0
Basically, inside admin Panel when I click on the header (first page ) of the post it displays fine.

While reading the replies, I noticed that there is a second page to it. (In reality that does not exist). I think when anyone click on the forum article it is taking the person to the inexisting second page:
ERROR when clicking next.
http://www.mysite.com/modules.php?na...r=asc&start=15

I looked inthe database and the forum has the proper ID #206. So pratically clicking on the URL http://www.mysitet.com/modules.php?n...opic&p=206#206 should work.

I need help badly to get the forum displaying this post.

Thanks
dcasmr

Why not just find this post in the database and change the user number for this particular post so it's credited to a current member ID that is in the database?

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Duke,

Thanks for your reply. Could you elaborate more? Could you give me some details as to which tables to look into? The last USER to reply to the post has a USERID = 388
The forum POSTID is #206 and I can see the message inside the database.


The sequence was:

385
387
xxx (386) deleted by me)
388 (last poster)

I had created a userID and changed it to 386, but it did not help.
Thanks,
dcasmr

Like Duke said..try changing the post ID for that post in that topic in the Database.


in
nuke_bbposts

Look for that table.

Try changing the poster_id for that topic to one that exists, like your member ID#

change poster_id 386 to your poster_id# for topic_id 206

Thanks for your explanations. I tried that and it worked as far as bringing the post that was not showing up.
However, when I added a reply to thread, I got the same error again
"No posts exist for this topic"

I checked that the poster_id for the last reply was indeed pointing to the userid of the person who added it (236).
I optimize the databse, and resync with no results.

1.) I optimize all the tables in database.
2.) I re-synch the forum

None of this solved the problem.

Inside phpbb forum administration, when I click on the first page of the thread, it displays fine: see below:
modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7&start=0

BUT, the next page which really does not contain a posted test is the one that display the error:
modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7&start=1 5

Any help on how to fix the problem with the thread?

Thanks,
dcasmr

It may be slightly too complicated to actually change the post ID because it's likely to be linked in bb_posts, bb_posts_text, bb_search_wordlist, bb_search_wordmatch. I'm not 100% sure if this is the case but if so, you may want to try something else such as:

...if your certain about the user ID that was deleted, simply create a new user in your admin panel, then go into the db and change the user ID# number to match the user you deleted.

or,

...if you really need the thread why not simply copy if from the database and re-post it in the forums if your really stuck?

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