By david@thrale.com on

I am developing a site on v5. I have tried posting messages in the forum for my site, but all these do not display at http://localhost/drupal/forum. Instead, I see Topic = 0, Post = 0, Last post - n/a. I know the posts are there because I can see the forum posts at Admin > Content.

Can anyone help me to sort this out. I have read in several places, that a fresh reinstall will fix it - I don't mind doing that, but I obviously want to keep the months of hard work I have already out into my site, and somehow work out how to import this back into a fresh reinstall.

Here's hoping someone can assist.

Thanks

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david@thrale.com’s picture

david@thrale.com commented

I want to start from a fresh download of Drupal to fix a corruption of the forum module. However, I then want to import into the fresh download the database entries from my development site for everything other than the forum (the forum on my site is corrupted). Ids this possible - if so can someone please explain how to do this?

Thank you

lenkkivihko’s picture

lenkkivihko commented

You need to export few tables from the old installation and then import them into the new installation.
As it is a bit of manual work you need to check that all works

At least following tables are required:
* Node
* Node revisions
* Variables table (I think it is the nid value)
* In case you have comments
* Variables table for (cid value)

But this is a bit of hacking so you need to know what you are doing and test it.
Additionally in case you have issues in the old installation you might bring them with the databases to the new installation.

But in any case it will be a learning experience! :-)