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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 10:58 Uhr  ·  #1
With the new CF4 layout I find sub forums a lot better for viewing and have been moving some forums about into different categories. I moved one forum that was in it's own category " welcome" into a different category but cannot find were to delete the "welcome" category that now has no forums attached.

I just get an empty category showing with "No forums to show in this category"
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Re: Old Category removal

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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 14:07 Uhr  ·  #2
Hi Ally,

to delete an empty category just click on the red delete-icon on the right of the empty category.

I attach a screenshot for this. :)

If you don't see any forum or category from the board index you can also use the "Failsafe" Button at the end where you can basically delete everything if for example a category is not visible after a convert or something.

Sincerely,
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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 14:09 Uhr  ·  #3
Hi Chris,

The category is not visible, I also looked in the failsafe. :/
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Re: Old Category removal

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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 14:11 Uhr  ·  #4
Hi Ally,

well the failsafe shows you everything it has in the forum db without structure so there could not be empty data.

Have you purged the board cache already? Maybe there's a cache file stuck.

If maybe from a convert there is no writing permission on a cache file also try to empty the folder uploads/cache/ (delete all files and folders INTO that folder but not the folder itself!)


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Re: Old Category removal

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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 14:17 Uhr  ·  #5
I deleted all the cache files but it still does not show - also the cache folder via ftp.

When i click for the failsafe page , there is nothing there.
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Re: Old Category removal

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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 15:07 Uhr  ·  #6
Hi Ally,

the screenshot shows the Forum-Manager start page.
Are you in the "Manage Forums" Section? Should look like this:

(Here you can also see an empty category from my previous screenshot, when I click on the delete-icon the category is gone).
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Re: Old Category removal

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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 15:16 Uhr  ·  #7
Hi Ally,

I see another thing: There's a typo in the English Lang-File for the failsafe-link.

Try to open this URL

{yourforum}/acp/admin_forum.php?p=fmanage&sub=failsafe


(p=fmanage, not p=fmanager).

This will open the correct failsafe page if necessary. :)

I added this to the Bugtracker, translation will be fixed in the next update. ;)

ATTENTION
Before you delete this category please make sure you don't have this category selected in any of your Subforums! Even if the main forum is in another category the subforum could still be attached to the wrong main category. So please ensure first that the category really is not selected by any forum before you delete it over the failsafe!! So please click through the edit-pages your Subforums and ensure that the Category "Welcome" is not selected by any of these subforums so it really is an empty category. :)

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Chris
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Re: Old Category removal

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Gepostet: 07.03.2017 - 15:49 Uhr  ·  #8
Chris,

That's it fixed :) - there were some sub forums still in that category so thank you for the warning!

Thanks
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