Whole forum is down: SMF_Messages table crashed. Please help!

Started by backend, September 04, 2015, 09:01:45 PM

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backend

My forum is down, with the following error message.

Table smf_messages' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed

When I logged in to my php admin, I couldn't repair it there either, with the same message showing.

BTW I didn't do anything that caused this. I just logged in this evening and got this message.

My host is godaddy and I haven't called them yet, don't have too much hope in them.

Can someone suggest what I can do please?

br360

When you logged into your php admin to repair it there, did you click on that table and then click the repair table option in the dropdown below? Was there any sort of message you received when trying to repair that table in your phpadmin?

Shambles

If the standard click-to-repair function says it can't be repaired, issue the following query within phpmyadmin

REPAIR TABLE smf_messages USE_FRM

.. which will rebuild the index from scratch (without losing data) effectively repairing your table.

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