Accidentally deleted a bunch of runs while trying to play with categories, any chance of reverting?
3 years ago
Canada

I'll save the fine details, basically I'm a rookie with SRC and I was trying to do something on the Xenogears leaderboard that I didn't understand as well as I should have and I deleted many things instead of just one thing by accident. If there is some way to undo it (either by my own powers or site admin powers) I would appreciate it. Cheers

Finland

you can go to the audit log you can get the id of a run so you can use that to go see if it exists and if it does then just edit it to put it in the right category. but if they are all actually fully deleted then you should contact side admin who i believe have helped with similiar things before

Canada

Is that a super mod only thing? I'm just a regular mod for the game.

Aquitaine, France

Yes only Super Mods have access to the game's audit log unfortunately

SioN likes this
Canada

Ah, well I'll see if one of the super mods can awaken from hibernation, in the meantime if someone with site admin (or whatever) powers happens to see this and revert the Xenogears leaderboard to the way it was a few days ago I would be highly appreciative.

KaweedFul likes this
Somerset, England

Site staff have a tool to restore deleted categories, submit a support hub request

[quote=SioN]you can go to the audit log you can get the id of a run so you can use that to go see if it exists[/quote] The run's link is N/A when deleted

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Oh_my_gourdness likes this
Finland

[quote=Yummy_Bacon5]The run's link is N/A when deleted[/quote] thats true

StarSpeed likes this
Valhalla

Assuming you were messing with subcategories? If that's the case you can 'restore' the runs by going to the subcategory and clicking the option to 'set this to the default for runs without this variable' or something like that.

Pear and StarSpeed like this
Somerset, England

Can deleted runs even be edited

Oh_my_gourdness likes this

If I recall correctly, it's been said that moderators cannot delete runs, they can only delete categories & sub-categories, so theoretically the run data should still exist in the system somewhere. That said, looking at links for the missing runs turns up "Category not found", at least for me: https://www.speedrun.com/Xenogears/run/1zqqqx5z

Perhaps remaking the (sub) categories with exactly identical naming would bring the runs back? I believe you can find those via the wayback machine, provided they weren't changed since June 2021.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Somerset, England

Just submit a support hub request, @Meta has said on discord that they have a tool to restore deleted categories