Restoring OG forum containers deleted through the general forum module

I'm not sure what it is that you're asking. I'm pretty sure that if you delete a forum and/or a container that everything in it is destroyed. You can't undo that, and I'm pretty sure that there is a warning to that effect before you complete the task.

As for using the regular forum admin tools versus the og_forum admin tools - as of the latest version, you should be able to use both of them. Group owners will obviously only be able to use the group forum tools and then only from within the group they are an owner of. But site-wide admins should not have trouble creating group forums from the general forum tools.

As for version 1.3, I have no idea as that was before my time. I never used it. I did, of course start from it to make all of the recent upgrades.

As for the link you added in #1, that seems to be an unrelated issue. However, FYI, I thought that I'd get to it this week, but turns out it will probably be next week. I now need that feature (making forums public) myself now, so it will be done in short order.

I don't know if any of that helps. As I stated, I wasn't quite sure what your actual issue is or what your question is.

Oh, I see now. You're right, there are currently no mechanisms for doing this. What you will have to do is first create a regular container. Then you'll have to manually edit a couple of tables to add the association to your group. I'm not in front of my development machine right now, so I'll have to check later and give you some better instructions. I'll add a TODO, but not an issue here regarding this. Perhaps in the future I'll come up with some more admin tools for moving forums and containers around.

Anyway, I'll let you know as soon as I can which tables you'll need to mod. Hopefully you use phpmyadmin or something easy like that. Meanwhile, if you want to poke around and try to fix it yourself feel free. In phpmyadmin, I would do a search for a container name that you know is correct. That will tell you which table or tables it is referenced by name in. Then, by looking at the other data fields, you can search for those items and find any other tables that you'll need to mod. Then create the new container, see which table(s) it is put into and which of the tables you surveyed have missing data. Add the missing data to those tables.

Hopefully that made since. I've been staying up too late lately. I was looking for hot cocoa recipes tonight of all things, then DVDs to add to my NetFlix queue. I ran across a bunch of shows from my childhood. Crazy. I can't believe I watched half of that crap. "Jason of Star Command", or "The Secrets of Isis". Oh, brother!

Wait a minute. In my half awake brain, I just had a thought. For the "Retoractively update old groups" button to not work, there must still be a remnant of the original container and/or forum left over. In other words, the og_forum module doesn't think there is any work to do. You could try finding that and either delete the entries and then use the button (should work), or create a new container and change the new container's fields to match the old remnant's data.

og_term is the table you are looking for IIRC. That will associate a node with a term - that term being the forum/container, and the node being the group. So figure out your group's nid, then figure out your container's tid and add both as a new row (if you don't find one already in the table).

Oh, and be sure to add the forums as well as the containers using their tids and the same nid.

Cool. Glad to help. And I hope this opened your eyes into some of the inner workings of Drupal. Don't be afraid to explore the database as well as the code of any module. One safe way to do it is to export your database from your live site and then import it into a test site. Anyway, good luck with your project.