PM Issue Update

[Rangatira]

5 hours ago, Mehe said:

He isnt very good at tipping them any how 

i think he is there to promote turnover

[Rangatira]

11 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Suggest you  check again.

magic

[hunterthepunter]

14 minutes ago, JJ Flash said:

Yes , all of them ,

They went missing 2-3 days ago- i sent you a request via PM to try and tell me where they might be hence why i went this way via the thread attract your attention  in order to find a solution

 

Greg

my pm in box is full jj some of yours were nasty to ranga 

[JJ Flash]

12 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Suggest you  check again.

I and at least one other obviously thank you for the magic you performed

 

Greg

[Chief Stipe]

Before you all start wandering down some great conspiracy path about the "missing PM's" as I eluded to in my first post on this topic I've been beavering away on the behind the scenes stuff that runs BOAY.

I won't bore you with the intricacies of what has been done but you will have noticed a marked improvement in website speed.  That is just a start.

For all those "experts" that tried to tell me that the speed performance problem was related to advertising or other theories.  You were all wrong.  I didn't engage in arguing at the time.

Being locked in the cabin I've spent many many hours on behind the scenes chores.  Unlike others I can't afford to under pay minions to do the work nor are there volunteers.  Not that there would be many capable of doing the work.

Although I've had 25+ years in IT the work done this week was an entirely new technical area for me.  I'm largely self taught on these things so from time to time I'll make the odd stuff up.

Rest assured your PM's were never deleted.  What happened was when I was moving the database to a new server one Table amongst over a 100 became a little mucked up.  That table was the one that mapped PM's to a Conversation.  The table didn't contain the PM's as they are stored in another table which was OK.

The system created a new mapping table which only mapped PM's that were created post the database transfer.  So I had a back up of the old table and a new table to merge.  Given the new table only had 25 new maps in it I decided to do the merge manually.  Coincidentally two users have ID's that have the same 3 digits with just the last two in a different order.  

I mistakenly transposed those last two digits.

Now the system is pretty smart and it said the map table was corrupt so it dumped the old and created a new one.  That's when messages disappeared.  

I then did a new remerge and things are now correct.

So to conclude no skulduggery, no conspiracy, just a little snafu that was fixed.

Enjoy.