You should be able to find what you're looking for in your Boards folder. So it might look something like the following (the one below I'm guessing is yours):

/cgi-bin/forum/yabb/board/Budget

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In that folder, just look for the board that has the thread that isn't responding, and replace it with a backup.

So if your board is named Budget as it appears to be, then you'll be looking for a file named Budget.txt to be replaced.

Before you do this, I recommend you first download an extra copy of Budget.txt in case it's needed. Be sure to upload your file as ASCII text.

By the way, you should be okay with that particular board/thread since there evidently hasn't been a post there since January 19th.

Hint: With backups it's good to have at least a 2nd and older backup in case you end up inadvertently backing up a corrupted file.

It's certainly overkill, but our forum usually has 4-5 backups at any given time (we currently have 10 backups). There have been times, for instance, when I've had to retrieve a file from an older backup because a newer backup had the same corrupted file in it that was on the server. I don't remember having to go back farther than a 2nd backup, but you never know. An older backup might be needed.

By the way, have you run Rebuild Message Index and Recount Board Totals in Maintenance Controls? That may be all that's needed.

Good luck!

My bad about your forum location. Sorry. I took a wild guess.

By the way, it was very clever of you to register people in your forum the way that you do. 

I'm now remembering that another person had this same exact problem you're having (including myself), and he/I fixed it simply by adding a new post to the thread that was hanging.

While that thread in your forum isn't loading the normal way, it's still accessible by clicking on the post that's listed as the last post.

You can click this link to get there, or you can click this link to see the 1st post in that thread. As such, maybe you can try posting a test post to see if your problem gets cleared up.

By the way, until you get this fixed for real, maybe you can post a link to that board in the temporary board you created (for a reference), so that people can post new replies if they want.

Later on when you get that board working properly again, you can simply move any new post that may have been made over to the original board, and then close the temporary board.

Good luck!

Edited:

Makes me think you need to enable the Recount Board Totals in your Admin Center. Have you tried that? That shouldn't break anything.

Or maybe it's a permissions issue. You may as well check that as well.

tonyevans wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 6:40am:

I'm pretty sure you're on the money with that one.

See below ...

speake wrote on Nov 11^th, 2012 at 11:04am:

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