Hi,

I recently upgraded to 1.0.3, and have no lost a number of categories from my forum.

However, the messages are still in the database.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes i upgraded from 1.0.0 and lost all my categories some one please consider.

I've ended up re-creating the categories and running some update sql scripts to re-attach the previous threads to the new categories!

simple79 wrote:
I've ended up re-creating the categories and running some update sql scripts to re-attach the previous threads to the new categories!
Can you tell what exactly I have to do to solve this problem?
Should I recreate categories again and what scripts should i run?

I have the same problem, upgrating from 1.0.0.
I would be really grateful if you could explain HOW you solve it!
Did you have problems with the backup menu as well?

Please share your wisdom with the hopeless!

You'll need to login to phpMyAdmin. As always, I would suggest to take a back of your database before.

Find the messages and try and from the subject remember which category they come from. Add the category again via phpMyAdmin or Joomla Admin.

Run an update on those messages updating the catid from the previous id to the newly created one.

Not perfect, but my forum isn't too large that I couldn't do this in 30 minutes.

Thanks for your fast answer.
My forum isn't that large either, so it would be no problem to recreate the categories. But I'm afraid I did not fully understand how I can attach the messages to the new categories. And where do I run the update?
Sorry if I should be a little bit slow on the uptake...

Pardon me if you've tried this but in the FB control panel have you tried Recount Categories Stats? I just had this problem after updating from a 1.0.0 install to the latest release. I forgot to run this and freaked out a little until I remembered to run it.

same thing happened to me, but for me i can't even make a new Category? it gives me this error about stored failed and then a bunch of jiberish when i try to save a new Category. all my messages are still there which makes this so frustrating.

Recount will fix some issues, but I still had missing categories.

If you recreate them, go to the ...fb_messages table and run the following SQL

"UPDATE `...fb_messages` SET `catid` = 'newID' where `catid` = 'oldID'"

You'll find the newID from the ...fb_categories table, the oldID will be the catid of your already existing messages.