Number of posts don't match

[Mum]

In the past i've deleted posts off my site, so at the bottom of my main forum page it says 175,000 posts, but my last actual posts is number 255000 (more now LOL), how can i change this so it's actually right with how many posts we HAVE had, not just how many are on there now.

[Weapon-x]

Try updating the counters via Admin CP.

[Dismounted]

Updating counters will not work. As the post counts are calculated using the MySQL function COUNT(), it will count the amount rows in a table, not the last unique id.

[Mum]

So is there any way of doing it?

[Dismounted]

Why would you want to do it the other way?

[Mum]

Because i want it to show the actual number that we HAVE posted, not just the number on there now.

[Dismounted]

You'll probably need to edit a few files. I don't know where exactly.