Todays i opened a ticket with this:

Hello,

I want to reorganize my board, delete some sub sections, merge some sections, things like that.

The problem is that i have Archived topics all over the forum(its a great feature), but now i can't touch my forum...

It alwasy says:

What can i do?

Got this response:

Hello,

I'm afraid that the only option is to restore these topics, move the forums about as needed, then re-archive them.

If you would like to see improved archive handling in a future version of IP.Board, please post in the

IP.Board Suggestions

forum.

Many thanks,

Alan.

I really hope Invision will take a look into this.
Im owner of a board and i cant touch it because i made the mistake of archive more than 44 thousand topics.
Its a great feature, because my forum become faster, but the cost is to high.
Now it will take Months to unarchive everything so i can make the changes i want to do.

Im a little disapointed...

Cannot agree more. I hit this issue today. Un-archiving hundreds of topics manually is not an option, as is un-archiving all topics then move the topics only to enable archiving once again when the move is done. I cannot delete a forum section either without un-archiving all. 3.4.0 must contain a remedy for this.

oh fu** just came here lloking for a solution and found out this...

wait, wait i have globally disable archiving and unarchieve ALL threads!!!???

i made a dirty hack in case someone needs it: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/369087-unarchive-forums/

Would like to see the ability to move archived topics as well.

Thanks for the hack!