Title: [ERROR] TABLE IS CORRUPTED! Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [ERROR] TABLE IS CORRUPTED! * Resolved [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/) * Hi all! I have this message in my TablePress board : “[ERROR] TABLE IS CORRUPTED! DO NOT EDIT THIS TABLE NOW! Instead, please ask for support at [http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress”](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress”); I find this occurs when I try to insert French diacritical marks (such as é or è). Can someone help me ? 🙁 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/) Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540467) * Hi, * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble! * This indicates that there’s something wrong with the character encoding. Were you entering these characters by typing them on the keyboard, or by copy/paste, or did you import the table? * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540482) * Hi, thanks for your message. I typed the first character and then copied it in every place where there was a trouble. The table was not imported. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540485) * Hi, * ok, that’s strange then. If possible, I’d like to take a direct look at this then. Can you therefore please create a temporary admin account for me, and send me an email? The address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540488) * Thank you so much for your time. I just sent you an email. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540489) * Hi, * thanks! I’ve received the email from WordPress with the account info, and I will take a look at the site shortly. * Regards, Tobias * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540491) * Hi, * ok, I’ve now taken a look at the site, and could reproduce the problem. What happens is this: The internal data format that TablePress uses (it is called JSON) is sensitive to certain modifications. Unfortunately, there’s a plugin installed on your site, that does such modifications to all posts, pages, and tables, which it should never do. This plugin is “Outbound Link Manager” from [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/outbound-link-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/outbound-link-manager/) * In its function “links_manager_check_post_white_black_lists()”, it contains a line * ``` $post["post_content"] = stripslashes($post["post_content"]); ``` * which will remove all backslashes `\` from the internal data format of the tables, which corrupts the tables. The best solution would be for that other plugin to fix this problem and check if this line is really necessary. As a temporary solution, I have commentend that line out, by changing it to * ``` // $post["post_content"] = stripslashes($post["post_content"]); ``` * With that, the problem should no longer happen. However, this is only a temporary fix, but as the “Outbound Link Manager” plugin seems to no longer be developed, the best long term solution might be to search for a replacement for that plugin, or to contact its developer and notify him about this problem in his plugin. * Additionally, I have restored your table, so that everything is working again now 🙂 * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540493) * Hi Tobias, First, a big thank you for the time you spent on my blog. This is a blog I imported from Blogger so I have to locate every links. But I will no longer use Outbound Link Manager, only until all my links are OK and I will desactivate it then. Thank you for finding a solution about using TablePress on my blog. I will use it often and it’s a very quality plugin. Have a nice evening * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540496) * There’s actually another trouble. I have desactivated Links Manager. I just worked on a table (id=9) but, when I use “#rowspan# in a blank cell, my blog page shows this message: “Data Tables warning (table id=’tablepress-9′): Requested unknown paramètre ‘2’ from the data source for row 1″ * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540497) * The page is [http://www.geneprovence.com/releve-en-ligne/](http://www.geneprovence.com/releve-en-ligne/) * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540505) * Hi, * no problem for fixing the problem, you are very welcome! * About the new issue: The reason for this is that your are using `#rowspan#` in a table that also has features of the DataTables JS library enabled. Unfortunately, the DataTables JavaScript library does not work with tables that have combined cells. You will either have to turn off DataTables for this table, or remove all `#rowspan#`s. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540506) * Oh that was so easy. Thank you, Tobias. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540507) * Hi, * sure, no problem! * Best wishes, Tobias * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress) here in the plugin directory. Thanks! * Thread Starter [jmdesbois](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmdesbois/) * (@jmdesbois) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540509) * Just done it. Thank you. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540510) * Hi, * that’s very nice, I really appreciate it! * Best wishes, Tobias Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘[ERROR] TABLE IS CORRUPTED!’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/tablepress/assets/icon.svg?rev=3192944) * [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/) ## Tags * [diacritical marks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/diacritical-marks/) * 14 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-table-is-corrupted/#post-3540510) * Status: resolved