Maybe it's about time some mods actually see what happens when they move topics, especially when they leave no shadow topic in it's place. :notnice:



Extended warranty question in main 05' section moved with no shadow topic to My S197. If I wasn't intimately involved with this place I would have thought the topic was outright deleted.

 

did you have the thread bookmarked?

 

No, the move happened right as I was posting. That was the result. I went skulking around and found it in My S197.

 

So if it happened while you were posting, could you not have done another search and it would have found it? My thoughts on leaving links, well, how many people want 500 pages of links in the main forum?

I sent a PM to the owner of that topic informing him that is was moved and where it was moved to.

 

When a post is being moved there will be an issue if you are currently trying to post into that thread. When you get that error you can use the search feature to find out where the topic was moved to.

 

Im surprised it acctually gave you an error like that. You must have tried posting at the exact time it had been moved. I have seen in teh past that if you are in a thread when it is moved and then post, it usually just goes straight to the new location.

If the software gives an error like that, just hit back to where you are viewing the post, and then hit F5 or refresh, it should update the post to its new location and any new post. That saves you from having to search for it.

 

If a shadow topic was left behind, it would have followed it. There wasn't one left, hence the error.

No need to get defensive John, this is just an FYI, as to what happens when you do that.

 

It stil should have followed it regardless. When a thread is moved, it keeps its origional topic ID, which is how the DB is queried to pull up a specific thread. I guess this is just one of those odd situations.

 

Yeah, it is odd, because going back and trying again gave me the same result. :scratch:

I'm not intimately familiar with IPB, but I've seen other systems still keep the forum ID in the WHERE clause or in an AND modifier in the SQL statement causing it to bomb if a shadow topic is not left behind.

I made the assumption that this was also the case, still could be.

 

If I seemed defensive I am sorry. Just me. I didn't mean for it to come across that way. I guess I should have worded that first line differently.

 

It could be for all I know :shrug: