Missing 67 pages in one of my forums

  The top screen shot is what I find when I search for the forum " POST YOUR BLITZ SCORES HERE " . This morning it had 67 pages . Now it has 8 . Starting with page 1 August 18 2015 to page 8 yesterdays postings and through today . Everything from January 2015 to August 17 2015 is missing . 
  Should i be wrried that some one deleted all of this info ? Should I do a forum restore ? Will that fix it ? How could this happen ? 
  The bottom screen shot is what myself and members get when they click 

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[ltr]  Wait I'm not sure but I think I figured out what happened . It seems that someone has split the forum in to two parts . I will try to fix it . Then get back to you .[/ltr]

[ltr]  Thank you , sorry [/ltr]
[ltr]  Something is screwed up that's for sure . Is there a page limit or space limit on forums ?[/ltr]

[ltr]Also everything I view here and in my forum has a[/ltr]
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  i do not know how to repond to both of you . Cannot even see what you asked . But I think that is what must have happened . I already screwed it up . So i am going to just delete it all and start all over .

  What does " split " mean  ? If it happens what do you do next ?

Did you check to see if there were two topics with the same title?  It could be that the topic reach the post limit and split.

If the other topics had 999 posts on it, the topics will automatically split. This is one of Forumotion's limitations and are unable to be changed. The other topic wi still be there though, it will automaticly be locked.

-Brandon

Actually 1100 is the max number of posts made in the forum I think then it will split and lock the old thread

As you can see the posts has already got to 1000


Also you may want to do a backup of just your posts in your Forums utilities the day your problem was found or your staff split the posts then it will go back the way it was before

Note also this if one post was deleted by the member or the staff it would have still sent you a pm to say that member has made a post before it was removed.

Fine alright, it can go to 1100, but once that number is reached, it auto splits the old topic at 990 posts.


Either way, that is likely what happened in your case @azwiz .

-Brandon

APE wrote:


Also you may want to do a backup of just your posts in your Forums utilities the day your problem was found or your staff split the posts then it will go back the way it was before

Note also this if one post was deleted by the member or the staff it would have still sent you a pm to say that member has made a post before it was removed.

  It do not think anyone else did anything but post in that topic . There are 7 of us that post there daily . If someone did delete something it was a member . I have no staff . The field agents are token titles and never visit the website . There is a new admin that has nothing to do with the topic in question and has only made two posts and no admin . I tried to copy the 8 pages that seemed to be the split or whatever to the original post . 
  What does a backup do ?  In general . I do not care about that topic any longer .
  
  I still think there are problems with my editing . 
  I still cannot figure out how to make partial quotes or multi quotes . I have read your tutorial and trid to follow it step by step .


  In my A P I cannot perform any functions on users in Firefox , Waterfox , Maxthon browsers . I cannot tear myself away from Maxthon because of its many user friendly options . I have to log in with I E in order to perform any user functions . The other browsers scramble either the passwords or the emails making editing or anything impossible . It has always been this way .

Ok . Whatever . Is there somewhere I can find out what this means and how to go forward when this happens ? Can or should I lock this topic ( btw I just did a back up which turns out is a restore these terminologies through me for a loop every time ) . And Start a new one ? How would I lock a topic ?

brandon_g wrote:Fine alright, it can go to 1100, but once that number is reached, it auto splits the old topic at 990 posts.


Either way, that is likely what happened in your case @azwiz .

-Brandon

As we said @azwiz , it is likely you hit the limitation on the amount of posts. The topic just automatically split and locked. Making it look as if posts are missing.

-Brandon

Could you please post the link to the area where these topics were? Make sure that guests can see the area.

brandon_g wrote:

brandon_g wrote:Fine alright, it can go to 1100, but once that number is reached, it auto splits the old topic at 990 posts.


Either way, that is likely what happened in your case @azwiz .

-Brandon

As we said @azwiz , it is likely you hit the limitation on the amount of posts. The topic just automatically split and locked. Making it look as if posts are missing.

-Brandon

  As far as I know guests should be able to see everything . However , since I needed that topic to work for the members that use it starting Monday morning . I moved the topic in question and started a new one in its place . I did not understand what split and locked meant so I just got rid of it . I have been looking around in this forum and in mine to find out what and how to use these buttons . There are so many I do not know how to use or what they mean . I can't find any info about them in support .Like the difference between new posts and new posts popular and how does it activate ? No new posts , no new posts popular . New posts locked , no new posts locked . How do you lock or unlock ? Announcement , sticky , Global announcement ? What do those mean ? What do they do ? How do you make them work ?
  There are many more . I would like to learn those first . I would like to learn how to learn these terminologies and how to make them work . There seem to be no tutorials on them . I need help . Please .

New Post = an unread replies or a new topic
New Post Popular = same above, but the topic is popular
Sticky, Announcement, and Global Announcement = mean they are more important then a normal topic
Global Announcement = it will appear in each forum and sub-forum
You do not activate these, but you can change the images.  You can change the text for stickies, announcements, and global announcements.  These are not buttons, but icons.

SLGray wrote:New Post = an unread replies or a new topic
New Post Popular = same above, but the topic is popular
Sticky, Announcement, and Global Announcement = mean they are more important then a normal topic
Global Announcement = it will appear in each forum and sub-forum
You do not activate these, but you can change the images.  You can change the text for stickies, announcements, and global announcements.  These are not buttons, but icons.

  That is what I mean about learning the terminologies . 

  Stickies , announcements , and global announcements are not buttons , but icons . If you do not activate them ? How do they work ? How do you place them at the top so they stay there ? What is the difference between the 3 .
  What is a locked topic ? How do you lock it ? Is it the same as the above 3 ?

Actually, there is a tutorial for all these. You can read about each of these, how to use them, what they do here: https://help.forumotion.com/t10773-guide-to-mod-tools .


-Brandon

SLGray wrote:https://help.forumotion.com/t66796-global-announcements

https://help.forumotion.com/t10773-guide-to-mod-tools

https://help.forumotion.com/t3339-stickies-and-announcements

  Thank you both . I couldn't find them . Hopefully these will help .

Your welcome azwiz, anytim .

-Brandon