Title: Corrupted MySQL DB?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Corrupted MySQL DB?

 *  [digitalhecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalhecht/)
 * (@digitalhecht)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupted-mysql-db/)
 * My WordPress site (self-hosted, using third party theme) started acting fubar
   yesterday. Among the strange behavior:
    1) Images appearing as many as 7 times
   in the Media Library with all but one or two Attached to anything. 2) My logo
   disappeared and was nowhere to be found on the site. 3) Old, deleted posts reappeared(
   more than once). 4) An old version (with a typo) of my footer logo reappeared
   in place of the newer, corrected one. I did a few things before this happened:
   1) I installed several plugins including Google Analytics, WP Polls, Polldaddy
   Polls, Kimili Flash plugin 2) I tried to create sub-pages which apparently weren’t
   allowed by the theme (London Creative 4.1 from themeforest). When the subpages
   didn’t appear in my menu, I went back to try again and saw that all my original
   pages no longer appeared in the Parent pulldown. Ideas? Anyone? Is this a database
   issue? (Ironic: I was in an all-day WordPress class yesterday when this happened.)
   Thanks. Any input is appreciated. Ed

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupted-mysql-db/#post-1901766)
 * Have you tried to repair database see if that solves the problem
    did you keep
   backup of database
 *  Thread Starter [digitalhecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalhecht/)
 * (@digitalhecht)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupted-mysql-db/#post-1901785)
 * Thanks for the response. I didn’t backup the database. Luckily this is just a
   personal website that wasn’t TOO far along. I plan to do a fresh install of WP
   into a new directory with a new db. I was just wondering what causes a db to 
   get corrupted (if that was the problem) and how to prevent it from happening 
   again (if that’s possible).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [digitalhecht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalhecht/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupted-mysql-db/#post-1901785)
 * Status: not resolved

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