Deleted A Discussion, Comments Were Left Behind

davemcnally

Hey,

I recently set up an install and make a test post when running through configurations. I have replied a couple of times to the discussion, for styling and functionality. Once I had finished, I deleted the discussion from the category view but now going back to the homepage, I have "0 discussions" but still "3 comments" which I can't delete as the topic they were in has gone...

Firstly, is this supposed to happen? Secondly, how do I remove these invisible comments?

Thanks

Linc

Where are you seeing the "3 comments" exactly? Sounds like a bug.

The comments are likely gone, it's just a counter that didn't reset correctly.

davemcnally

The comments are indeed, gone. It's just the count on the categories page, which is set as the main page. As seen in this screenshot: http://cl.ly/49T7

If I go into the category, no comments can be seen. Since then, I also noticed that I had posted a new discussion in that category but the count wasn't updating on the main page either. I tried repairing and optimising my database but that didn't work.

Linc

Yeah, this isn't a database problem, it's just an incorrect value being stored in the Categories table. You're using 2.0.17, right?

davemcnally

Indeed I am. Any idea what's caused this problem and how to solve it? Thanks.

Linc

This is a grade A bug. Filed a ticket: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/issues/issue/741

I'd bet it gets fixed for the next release; sorry about that.

Linc

If you want to fix this specific occurence of it, go to your GDN_Category table, find the record for that category and set CountComments back to zero.

davemcnally

Thanks for letting me know, I'll go ahead and fix this occurrence of it and keep an eye out for updates.