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1. centerman
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello--

   I am new here and have poked through the threads, but have not found a situation quite like mine. My programming skill is thin; please forgive my basic questions.

   Here is the problem:

   New posts started deleting themselves today, one day after my site was restored to correct damage I inflicted.

   The troubles began when I tried to install some new plugins. I placed them in the wrong content folder -- the MU content folder. This nuked all my other plugins, partially breaking the site.

   (Plugin error messages: "deactivated...headers are missing." I tried hitting "activate," which made the plugins vanish.)

   I deleted the new plugins from the MU content folder. But my other plugins did not reappear.

   So my web host restored the site from a day earlier. The restored fix did not stick for very long, however. Within a few minutes my regular plugins were gone once again, along with thumbnails, calendar and other features.

   A second restore seemed to bring things back to normal for about 18 hours. Users posted new entries...and then those entries disappeared.

   When I tried to open these posts from their subject lines under "edit posts," I got an error message saying there was no post, "or maybe it was deleted?"

   Any ideas about where to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated... thanks very much.

2. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Go look in the database and see if they are there.

   The troubles began when I tried to install some new plugins. I placed them in the wrong content folder -- the MU content folder.

   Never put anything in there unless a particular plugin instructs you to. this caution is pretty much everywhere.

3. centerman
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry to be such a newb... I don't have control panel access. Can I find the database via FTP?

   Any idea why posts would delete themselves?

4. dgilmour
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   No, you can't access the database via FTP.

   What you could do, if you only have FTP access, is install PHPMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net), configure it with your database name and login details, and use that to access the database.

5. centerman
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks. Must admit, I am a little gun-shy about installing anything after my last blunder. But sounds like it's worth a shot.

6. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You mentioned having a webhost who restored from backup. They should have some notes on how to look at your DB.

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