I am only guessing, but if the table structure of FORUM_FORUM was corrupt, would it still open in Access? I was able to open all the tables in Access without error. Surely the forum updates the counts in FORUM_FORUM as members write stuff?
If I shutdown the forum in Admin, what happens to anybody who is, for example writing a reply? Do they just get bombed out with the "The Board is shutdown.........etc" message?
Sorry to ask so many questions, I am just trying to understand what happens when I do something like shutting down the forum.
Something on the table structure was not liked by the database driver on your server. It worked on your laptop, per what you wrote. The database has no way to know what the columns in FORUM_FORUM mean. How would it know? By name? Where in the database is the info that says F_COUNT means the topics plus the replies?!
If you shutdown the forum, everything done afterwards will fail and the users will get a message stating the board is closed.
Posted - 23 December 2010 : 17:43:40
