Thread:Help talk:Repairing SMW's data/My property list is mainly empty - what happened and how do I fix it?/reply (9)

I'd really like to know how to understand what happened - so it doesn't happen again.... as well, of course, fixing it now.

The -v option is, as I understand it, supposed to visit each page, check if there are any properties on it, and, if there are, then recreate them. This should bring the properties back.

The fact that it hasn't, after running it a number of times, is a concern - where should I be looking to see what it's not doing?

The properties themselves are there, and not showing red any more, so it seems to have sorted out the table of properties itself, just not the pointers to where the properties are used.

that's why I thought that the -cpt options, particularly the -p option, might help.

Is there an error log somewhere that might help show what's not working?