Thread disappeared; no one has rights to remove, so what happened?

[lottidah]

I had a thread at my forum called "Forum Administration" that had hundreds of posts. A user posted in it this morning. I read her post. I returned to the thread listing page. Read another thread. Returned to the thread listing page. My Forum Administration thread is GONE.

I upgraded to 3.7 yesterday. Previously, I had it set up so that no one could hard delete a thread or a post but me. Did the upgrade to 3.7 change that setting? Where can I verify the hard delete settings?

How can I tell what happened to this thread?

[rgf207]

Have you checked the moderator log in the admin cp? That may tell you if it was deleted by someone

[lottidah]

Yes, and there are no entries for today's date.

[lottidah]

I now see another thread that was active today is also missing. I think the webserver I'm on went down today briefly, but since when does that cause threads to be deleted?! Is this some 3.7 issue?

[Lynne]

Have you looked in the database to see if it is still there?

[lottidah]

I know how to access the database but have no idea what sort of query to run to see if these threads are there.

[Lynne]

If you aren't comfortable playing in the database, then it's best to not touch it!

Have you tried doing a repair/optimize on the post and/or thread tables (or even all of them lately?)

[lottidah]

I didn't say I was uncomfortable. You mentioned checking in the database for the threads. Please share how to do so.

I have not done those other things as of yet.

Thanks

[Lynne]

I use phpMyAdmin to access the database. I would go into my database and find the threads table. Then do a search on the title by inputing the title I am 'missing' and see if it shows up. For instance, I have some threads with the word "random" in the title. I'd search with the operator "Like%... %" and word "random" and get several listed. Do something like that with a word from your missing thread title and see if it shows up.