Solve : To: The admin?

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Answer» RESTORING missing threads and whatnot: Restoring Missing Messages If you notice that some of your messages have gone missing, you should begin by checking with your moderators, global mods and administrators to be certain they did not remove the message. You should also try to check with the user to make certain s/he did not remove their own message. You should then check your /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory to make certain that the message really is missing. You will need to know the Message ID, which should be a 10-digit number. Look for all files with that number as their filename. If there is a file called xxxxxxxxxx.txt (where the x's would be replaced by numbers) within that directory, and that file is not a 0 byte file, then you will want to try rebuilding your message index. If you find that the post really did disappear mysteriously, you should be able to restore that message simply by uploading it from your back up into the /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory. You should upload all of the files with the appropriate message ID as their filename. Then you should try recounting your board totals and possibly rebuilding your message index. found here: http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring I'd say this borders on hacking, zylstra555. I believe the information at http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring is intended for forum admins, not forum members. I've never seen in any other forum - and I've seen a lot of them - such a suggestion by a forum member. I believe one must logged on as admin to do this. If any member can actually do this, would you care to post the details of the procedure? How does a REGULAR member to this?Quote I'd say this borders on hacking, zylstra555. I believe the information at http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring is intended for forum admins, not forum members. I've never seen in any other forum - and I've seen a lot of them - such a suggestion by a forum member. I believe one must logged on as admin to do this. If any member can actually do this, would you care to post the details of the procedure? How does a regular member to this? Regular members can do ANYTHING with three characters added to the end of the URL above. But I refuse to go into that.... This is here for ANYONE else who has this problem with their own forums. I have my own forum, and so does Flame, and many others here. They are great to experiment with. If people think I should, I will delete it.Let's see, zylstra555 said, "If you find that the post really did disappear mysteriously, you should be able to restore that message simply by uploading it from your back up into the /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory. You should upload all of the files with the appropriate message ID as their filename. Then you should try recounting your board totals and possibly rebuilding your message index. found here: http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring" So, individual members (not mods, not admin) can upload their messages directly into the server hosting this forum? Is that you're saying? Quote Let's see, zylstra555 said, "If you find that the post really did disappear mysteriously, you should be able to restore that message simply by uploading it from your back up into the /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory. You should upload all of the files with the appropriate message ID as their filename. Then you should try recounting your board totals and possibly rebuilding your message index. found here: http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring" So, individual members (not mods, not admin) can upload their messages directly into the server hosting this forum? Is that you're saying? Each time you post, there is a piece(s) of text uploaded to the YaBB directory. For example, this is being put into a file called "1154412012.txt" however the YaBB forum controls it, and makes it a non executable TXT file, and therefor, no hacking could OCCUR. If it put it into a PHP or HTML file, that's another STORY.

Answer» RESTORING missing threads and whatnot:

Restoring Missing Messages
If you notice that some of your messages have gone missing, you should begin by checking with your moderators, global mods and administrators to be certain they did not remove the message. You should also try to check with the user to make certain s/he did not remove their own message. You should then check your /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory to make certain that the message really is missing. You will need to know the Message ID, which should be a 10-digit number. Look for all files with that number as their filename. If there is a file called xxxxxxxxxx.txt (where the x's would be replaced by numbers) within that directory, and that file is not a 0 byte file, then you will want to try rebuilding your message index. If you find that the post really did disappear mysteriously, you should be able to restore that message simply by uploading it from your back up into the /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory. You should upload all of the files with the appropriate message ID as their filename. Then you should try recounting your board totals and possibly rebuilding your message index.

found here: http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring
I'd say this borders on hacking, zylstra555. I believe the information at http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring is intended for forum admins, not forum members. I've never seen in any other forum - and I've seen a lot of them - such a suggestion by a forum member.

I believe one must logged on as admin to do this. If any member can actually do this, would you care to post the details of the procedure? How does a REGULAR member to this?Quote

I'd say this borders on hacking, zylstra555. I believe the information at http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring is intended for forum admins, not forum members. I've never seen in any other forum - and I've seen a lot of them - such a suggestion by a forum member.

I believe one must logged on as admin to do this. If any member can actually do this, would you care to post the details of the procedure? How does a regular member to this?

Regular members can do ANYTHING with three characters added to the end of the URL above. But I refuse to go into that....

This is here for ANYONE else who has this problem with their own forums. I have my own forum, and so does Flame, and many others here.
They are great to experiment with.

If people think I should, I will delete it.Let's see, zylstra555 said,
"If you find that the post really did disappear mysteriously, you should be able to restore that message simply by uploading it from your back up into the /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory. You should upload all of the files with the appropriate message ID as their filename. Then you should try recounting your board totals and possibly rebuilding your message index.

found here: http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring"

So, individual members (not mods, not admin) can upload their messages directly into the server hosting this forum? Is that you're saying? Quote

Let's see, zylstra555 said,
"If you find that the post really did disappear mysteriously, you should be able to restore that message simply by uploading it from your back up into the /cgi-bin/yabb/Messages directory. You should upload all of the files with the appropriate message ID as their filename. Then you should try recounting your board totals and possibly rebuilding your message index.

found here: http://www.yabbsupport.com/Backing_Up_and_Restoring"

So, individual members (not mods, not admin) can upload their messages directly into the server hosting this forum? Is that you're saying?

Each time you post, there is a piece(s) of text uploaded to the YaBB directory.
For example, this is being put into a file called "1154412012.txt" however the YaBB forum controls it, and makes it a non executable TXT file, and therefor, no hacking could OCCUR. If it put it into a PHP or HTML file, that's another STORY.

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