Hi guys,
Yesterday I converted most of our tables in the DB to InnoDB at the suggestion of your help pages, and everything seemed OK. Today I logged in and did a bit of Admin-type stuff as you do, and everything was normal. Then I went to the Reports and tried to delete a post that had been made six time in error (possibly an initial symptom of what's to come?), and it wouldn't work. I got a 500 error.
From that moment on, the forum has been all over the place, looking weird, buttons in the wrong places, buttons not working, and headers duplicating, with the CSS totally out the window at times. I've a feeling that it's a corruption to the DB somewhere along the line, but I don't know what to do in order to fix it or who can help, so I'm sat here panicking and wishing I'd never started it. 😪 I made one attempt to repair a random table, which returned with a message to the effect of "InnoDB doesn't support repair", which was a bit of a shock.
I think we're going to need someone like a sys admin to go over our DB and fix it, but I'm hoping that you might be able to give us some ideas before it starts costing us lots of money. We've got a bit of a cash float, but it's not a huge one. I'm terrified of losing 14+ years of posts, wisdom and nonsense. 🤮
I'm desperate, and the forum is unusable as it stands, so if you can give it some prompt attention, I'll be appreciative 🙂
TIA
Mike.