Increase Post Count

[danielc2384]

Recently one of the moderators on my forum physically deleted hundreds of threads instead of just moving them to our hidden archive.

Is it possible at all to some how increase the forums post count by lets say 400 posts? I haven't seen a modification for it.

[Dismounted]

Possible - but not very useful IMO.

[danielc2384]

Any idea where I should go or ask for help?

[Lynne]

It isn't something you can just do in the Admin CP. You would have to actually query the database or similar.

[danielc2384]

Ah. Dang. Oh well. Thanks anyway.

[danielc2384]

I think I found a way to do it.

I need to run this query.


UPDATE forum SET replycount=999 WHERE forumid=1;

Only problem is this error
Error

SQL query:

UPDATE forum SET threadcount =999 WHERE forumid =1

MySQL said: Documentation
#1146 - Table 'evane1_vbulletin.forum' doesn't exist

Any idea how I can fix it?

[Brad]

You need to include the table prefix which is usually something like "forum_" or "vB3_". Check the file config.php, your prefix is listed/set in there.

So you'd want to modify the query like so:

UPDATE prefix_forum SET threadcount = 999 WHERE forumid = 1

[danielc2384]

^ Thanks! worked great :)

I actually managed to revive the lost threads anyway :)