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daddydave:
For some reason, and this is all of a sudden because I was getting to the links before, if I click on any link in the Help Index thread, I get "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you." On the page with that message, it still shows me as logged in with my username.

rick.ca:
Thanks. It's not you—the links are broken. I thought it might be an indexing problem, but now I see the messages in this forum only go back to June 2009. Maybe this is the result of old messages being archived. Nostra? ???

In case it helps, the messages that are inaccessible from the Help Index topic are...


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daddydave:
Thanks. Glad to know it's not just me and thanks for the message numbers. :)

nostra:
Yes, I have made some automatic forum optimizing and it could that the topics were removed in process. I could check the backups, but it is probably too time consuming to restore single topics :(

Sorry for the inconvenience.

rick.ca:
I've done what I can to repair the Help Index—by reposting my own messages from an archive of my message history I happened to have.

Nostra, that "optimizing" had a rather devastating effect on this particular topic. I suppose that may because all of the messages lost were rather old. The archive I restored them from created in December 2008. But I'm concerned about what else may be gone. Is there a way you can describe what messages were removed? It's obviously not everything before a certain date—my message history still goes back to day 1.

Oh, but wait. We do have an indicator of the impact of whatever this is. According to my stats, I've posted 2,230 messages—but there are only 1,689 in my history. So it would seem I've lost over 500 messages (a handful were deleted by me). Your situation looks even worse—646 of 2,128 missing. It seems only members who have been around since before the middle of last year are affected. So maybe there is some connection with the fact the Support and Feature Suggestion forum messages only go back to June 2009?

BTW, I'm not expecting you to recover lost messages. But it would be helpful to understand what's gone so I don't waste time looking for it. :-\

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