Deleted threads/posts

Is it possible for Admin to retrieve deleted threads or posts and if so, how? Can they then be re-posted to the board?

Thanks.

Kingsley

Originally posted by Kingsley
Is it possible for Admin to retrieve deleted threads or posts and if so, how? Can they then be re-posted to the board?

Thanks.

Kingsley

Simple: no.
Deleted is deleted, removed from the database (version 2)
Can be, I think that version 3 has undelete option (version 3)

Not so simple: maaaaaaaaaybe
You could get them from an old backup, filter out the inserts from the backup and run them as a mysql query and hope they work (make sure auto increament is set properly in the query)

Originally posted by Kingsley
Is it possible for Admin to retrieve deleted threads or posts and if so, how? Can they then be re-posted to the board?

Thanks.

Kingsley I had a similar issue recently on my forum... a new member was trying to defraud people, and I posted some details I'd dug up that proved it... he deleted the thread and along with it all my research.

Here's what I did that "miiiight" work for you IF you've recently viewed the thread. Go into your browser's cache (maybe only works with IE) and get to the folders like this: Temporary Internet FilesContent.IE55AJSHF. Then browse through allll of it to find instances of "showthread" (as a precaution at this point I first disconnected from the net in case it decided to overwrite whatever I found).... if you're lucky you might find the whole thread in there. I did. You probably can't restore it to an "active" state from that, but at least you would have all the text of it.

Hope this helps :)

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