Edit Posts not working *Update posted* [done]

Everytime I try to edit a post in my forum it says "The length of the title for this topic must be ranging between 10 and 255 characters" It doesn't matter how many characters I put in (Even though it shouldn't require any since I'm just editing whats already there)- it still wont let me edit it. This is happening in all the posts that I split from other others. Is there any way around this problem?

Thanks in advance for the help

So it is not happening on all posts?? Just the one's that you have split off? Is it happening in the post that you split FROM, or the post that you split it TO. Or both?

It looks like it's only the posts that I split to. The one that I split from seems to work fine.

Okay I have just went to my forum, and split a topic and tried to edit the title after the split, in the new thread created and split off and to. But I was able to edit my title just fine.

Do you have this with all or just one like this?

Do you have another staff member who has permissions to edit posts, that could try themselves to see if it happens to them as well?

Just trying to figure out if it's just your forum, your computer for some strange reason, or what, before I move to techs.

I tried doing it to others that I split- but it does the same thing- let me go there now and see if somebody else can edit one of theres. I will let you know as soon as I know. Thanks

Edit--- Ok- so this is what's happening. I had one person post in my Introduce yourself topic. Then everybody started introducing themselves by replying to his- so I split up everybody from him into there own topics. Everyone that was split from the original can not be edited. - I get the error message stated above. All new ones and the original one can be edited. I know it's not my computer because I tried it at home last night, and now I'm at work and it's doing the same thing. As of now there's nobody on that has been split from the original that I can have them test it. If you still want them to test it I can do it when I get home and more are on.

May I ask what the exact topic title of your split topic was?

Just asking because there is a topic title character limit you can set ("General / Config / Topic Title Lenght"). This defines the min and max value allowed for your topic titles - in your case obviously 10 and 255. If you split a topic, this limits don't apply, that means you can create also topic titles with less characters. Now, if you edit a post within the splitted topic and the title lenght is below the minimum limit, the forum will return an error message again.

That means, to solve the problem, either change the limits in the path mentioned above, or split your topics always with a valid title that has more characters than the minimum value.

Hmmm- usually it is the persons name- I will adjust it in the config and see if that doesn't help- Maybe change the topic title in each post's ariginal topic too. I know making the title longer in the replied to posts doesn't work. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks

OK- Thanks for the help- it works now

What I did is when I split the topics I just put their name in the subject line- even if it was only 4 letters. The split was aloud to take place, but we couldn't edit. So adding some characters to make it 10 fixed it. Now we can edit the posts Thanks alot!