UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? PM's all from "Deleted User" since upgrade

I've had a bit of hassle upgrading from 6.2 to 6.5, a lot of tables didnt get created etc, i've created the missing tables, but I'm a bit worried that maybe some other things didn't occur, and this could also reflect why all existing PM's now show as if they are from "Deleted User".

New messages are fine..

Anyone have any ideas how to correct this?

Thanks!

hassle upgradding? did you run the upgrades from 6.2 thru 6.5 in order?

I did indeed. Problem is that I inherited this site, and I am not sure how well it was looked after.

I ran some suggested from ubbcentral and a 1 entry was added into the users table, but the messages problem seems to remain, almost like they have lost their indexing or something.

new messages seem fine... maybe its just tough.

This seems alot like an old bug with the installer. Did you have alot of PMs? One of the altertables (maybe 6.2) used to time out and essentially lose all the user ids for the private messages.

http://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB8&Number=21374

Basically all PMs got reset to user #1 (which will appear as deleted user)

Although you were already on 6.2.... so you should have been past that hurdle.

Is it possible that you accidentally ran the 6.1-6.2 altertable. None of the altertables from 6.2 through 6.5 do anything at all to the Private Messages table. So there must be something else amis.

At this point, if all PMs have been assigned to user#1, then there's not much you can do about it, other than restore a backup of the w3t_Messages table. Searching through the altertables, I don't believe there were any changes to the w3t_Messages table, so plunking the old table back in there should be fine.

Hmmmm it is possible that I did that.. if I stick the old one back will i need to do anything to that table?
thanks!

Well I did that.. and it appears to have worked ..