Where is my form? It's missing!

By: Rex Manaster | Asked: 08/04/2024
ForumsCategory: General questionsWhere is my form? It's missing!
Rex Manaster asked 5 months ago
I have been building a form for a few days. This morning I went to finish it. It is gone! I can't find the partially built form anywhere. I didn't delete it. There are no deleted forms visible from my Formidable dashboard within Wordpress.  The only way I know to access and edit my forms is via my Wordpress admin interface. I can probably access them through the file manager provided by Godaddy, but I don't know what the forms are called as files and where they exist in the file system. Godaddy, as the host of my site backs, does a daily backup. I do not know how to navigate or use that system, but I imagine I can get Godaddy to leverage that if necessary. Thanks for any advice on how to find or retrieve or revive my missing form! WordPress:6.5.5|Active theme:Hello Elementor v3.1.1
1 Answers
Victor Font answered 5 months ago
Forms are not files. Forms are stored in the frm_forms and frm_fields database tables. Forms just don't disappear either unless something went horribly wrong and corrupted the database or the form was deleted or was not saved. Here is a link to Formidable's database schema so you can see where forms are saved. You can look in the tables through PHPMyAdmin.
Rex Manaster replied 5 months ago

Thanks so much.

It doesn't seem like anything went horribly wrong and corrupted the database, because everything else seems normal.

The form was saved (or "updated") regularly. I do not recall deleting it. It is not visible as an item in 'trash'.

Anyone ever experience this? Or have any ideas?

Victor Font replied 5 months ago

Do you know how to use PHPMyAdmin? Check for the form in the frm_forms table. If it's there, the [problem of not seeing it is someplace else. You'll need to do thr troubleshooting or get someone to help you troubleshoot.

Rex Manaster replied 5 months ago

I'll figure it out on MyPHPAdmin. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

Victor Font replied 5 months ago

Have you gotten anywhere with this?

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