Threadind replies on dicussion boards

[domino3]

I have a discussion board set up which was working fine. Then my webhost lost its Frontpage extensions, and although they have now put them back, my dicussion board threads have gone wrong.

For example, new posts are being added to old and totally unrelated postings, and replies to postings are beinging threaded to unrelated postings also.

Is there any way of correcting this? I had kept a backup of all the old postings but find that I can't just copy these into the bulletin board. And if I type all the psotings in again manually (and there are too many to realistically do that) then the dates appear as the date I have retyped them, and not the date that they were originally added.

One more thing, is there any way of keeping a backup of the postings which can then be used in the event that my webhost does the same thing again in the future?

Can anyone help? Thanks

 

[CoreyBryant]

Well to answer your last question you can publish from your server to your local hard drive. This will publish those files thar are created by your discussion board to your local computer & now you will have a back up.

Now - how did you create your back up? You might also consider a forum that is not specific to FP extensions. You can get some examples from

http://www.forumcrafters.com

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[domino3]

Thanks for the reply.

I did create my backup by copying all the postings onto the hard drive, but I'm finding that when I try putting them back onto the website they are showing the same corruptions.

Do I needs to wipe clean the tocproto file, or do I need to leave that well alone?

 

[CoreyBryant]

Well if you did publish to your HD, try to go to tools - recalculate the hyperlinks & publish. Do you have the URL maybe to review?

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[domino3]

I've recalculated and publishedm and the problem is still there. The url is

http://www.rettsyndrome.org.uk/disc6_toc.htm.

Hope you can help.

Thanks

 

[CoreyBryant]

I cannot promise anythig but do you think that you can ZIP everything in the _disc6 folder & let me have a go? Make sure that you include the _vti_cnf files as well. Email is crb @ startups4less.com

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[domino3]

Thanks for your offer to help. It turns out that it may well be a problem with the webhost server. They are looking into for me (very slowly) but hopefully may be able to resolve it.

Thanks again

 

[domino3]

Hi again.

My webhost is having problems solving this. It seems that when a new posting is added to the bulletin board, the number being allocated to the new posting is a duplicate of existing posting reference numbers. For example, disc6/0000001.htm now has three seperate postings all allocated to it. This means that you get three headings and three comments on the one posting, which makes absolutely no sense.

I've tried recalculating hyperlinks, I've tried reinputting all the postings to a newly set up bulletin board, and my webhost have even switched the account to a different server, but nothing seems to help. Has anyone encountered this before, and is there anyway to solve it.

 

[CoreyBryant]

I have not heard of it before. Are you on Window or Unix?

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[domino3]

wINDOWS 2000

 

[CoreyBryant]

Then you really should not be having all these problems. Have you considered maybe about upgrading to a Snitz forum or webwiz?

Or have you created a brand new discussion thread to see if this still happens?

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