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#175034 04/27/2002 3:14 PM
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I recently invited another author to my messageboard; to create excitement for her, I set-up her forum in advance and called it "Top Secret." I made it private so that I could go in and play around with stuff (getting it right, etc.) ... and then, I figured when I was ready to reveal who she is, all I'd have to do is turn the private forum into a public one.

Wrong! eek I had nothing but a bunch of symbols and letters when I opened the thread! eek

So my question is this: once you make a forum private, can it be reverted back to a public one?

(I solved my "problem" by quickly creating a new forum, choosing the template for the forum, and transferring the threads from the private to the new forum, but I'd like to avoid this in the future!)


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#175035 04/27/2002 8:40 PM
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To diagnose problems with UBB.classic, we'll need a full URL to your UBB and where to find the issue.

Try rebuilding forum stat files if your using version 6.0 or above.

#175036 04/27/2002 10:39 PM
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No need Greg. It's a software architecture problem in UBB.

Here's the cause. When you make a forum "private" (let's assume this is Forum #1), the data files for the private forum are tuck under a randomly named directory directly underneath ubb/Forum1 which contains the data for each thread (call this directory where private threads are stored as ubb/Forum1/4jdsk04). When you change this Forum #1 from private to public, UBB now reads the threads files from ubb/Forum1 - it doesn't move files in 4jdsk04 into ubb/Forum1. As a result, it looks as if the private files have just disappeared (the data files will still be in 4jdsk04 though); they are not moved when you change from Private to Public.

Therefore, the softare architectural answer (the easy answer):

1. If you switch the forum from private to public, authorized users will only be able to view/add/edit/delete/... the public directory, not the private directory.
2. If you switch the forum from public to private, authorized users will only be able to view/add/edit/delete/... the thread data stored in the private directory, not the public directory.

Please LMK if you have any other questions.

qasic

#175037 04/27/2002 10:52 PM
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Thanks for the explanation, Qasic!

That really threw me for a loop yesterday. All my hard work--GONE! eek

But then I reverted the original forum back to being "private" and the files I needed were there--so it wasn't difficult creating a "new" forum.

Lessons learned. laugh


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#175038 04/28/2002 9:16 AM
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Well duh, Q. wink

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