Title: Table corrupted/ lost
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Table corrupted/ lost

 *  Resolved [undercur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undercur/)
 * (@undercur)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-corrupted-lost/)
 * Hello,
 * I performed a backup restore of my staging site using Vaultpress and while everything
   else was restored fine, it seems I lost the table I had created using Tablepress.
 * Instead it now says:
    [ERROR] THE TABLE DATA 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)
 * Any idea what could have caused this, and how it could be fixed? It’s the first
   time I perform a backup with Vaultpress, and this was the only table I had created
   with Tablepress, so I don’t know if this is a one-off or permanent problem.
 * Thanks,
    Eva
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-corrupted-lost/#post-3325446)
 * Hi Eva,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble! This obviously should not happen.
 * I don’t have experience with VaultPress, so I’m not sure where the problem comes
   from. Therefore, if possible, I’d like to directly investigate this on your site
   and run some tests. Could you maybe contact me via email (the address is in the
   main plugin file tablepress.php)?
 * Thanks,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [undercur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/undercur/)
 * (@undercur)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-corrupted-lost/#post-3325447)
 * Hi Tobias,
 * Thanks for the quick reply — will send you an email now!
 * Eva
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/table-corrupted-lost/#post-3325477)
 * Hi,
 * for everybody following this thread: After working with Eva directly, we found
   that this seems to be caused by something interfering with the saving of the 
   internal TablePress data. Presumably, this was VaultPress during the restore 
   process of the backup.
    For some reason, all strings that describe a line break
   in JSON (“\n”) where transformed to actual line breaks. Due to that, the JSON
   could no longer be decoded and appeared to be corrupted.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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