I edited the post icons and now they are gone

[photo312]

I have done this:

deleted the current icons in the post icon manager and recreated them using the "bulk recreate" option to add 30 or more at once.

Now all the icons I used in my previous messages in the forum are completely gone.

how can I fix that?

Paul

[photo312]

I looked at the database and see that each icon has its own id...so i guess i would have to reupload the original icon table...right?

since the ids have been mismatched with my new icons...

[Jake Bunce]

Yep. Posts record the iconids, so you need to change the iconids back to what they were. You can use a program like phpmyadmin to manually change the icon records.

[photo312]

I was able to fix it by editing two tables: posticons and the posticoncategory and it works fine now, but it should be easier than that in the future. I posted this as a bug.

[Jake Bunce]

This isn't a bug. If you delete a posticon, then it only makes sense that existing references to that icon will be broken. If you want to change an existing icon, then you can just edit the existing icon instead of deleting it and creating a new one.

[photo312]

Its not a technical bug, but it is a logical bug.
In my opinion, if you let the user manage the icons, the way they are managed should allow the user to replace current icons.

I deleted the icons using the delete button. It should have warned me about losing my references to the already present icons so that I dont have to edit the database.

i still think its a logical bug.

Paul