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Cannot read property 'processSectionDelay' of undefined
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Sekar Govindaraj
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Leon Stringer
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Stuck with current release information
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Nermin Goran
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Leon Stringer
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Student At Risk Email Has a Link to Report at 127.0.0.1:80
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Edward Santee
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hugo koopmans
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Apache server not starting in new install
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Robert Ryder
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Alonso Quijano
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Stopping cronjobs before upgrade
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Martin Božič
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Martin Božič
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Unable to progress past editadvanced.php (setup)
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Tony C
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Leon Stringer
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Edit button not working
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Heleni Lindsell
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Heleni Lindsell
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Installation problem in 3.7.2+
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Petar Anastasov
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Patrick Williams
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Fresh moodle 3.9.1+ installation unable to install/download from plugin directory
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Joerg Knoerchen
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Ken Task
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Noob questions
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Michael Knichel
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Ken Task
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Moodle 3.9.2. update issue
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frank weissman
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frank weissman
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Database Migration
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Gilbert Loyogoy
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Leon Stringer
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Moodle 3.9.1 upgrading issue
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Pepe Gotera
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Pepe Gotera
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Installing moodle database on Azure (mysql/mariadb)
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Timbo Bertenshaw
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Leon Stringer
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Merge 3.9.1 to 3.9.2 had unusual Git Conflicts
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Eric Katchan
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Eric Katchan
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September 2020 VPS install of Moodle 3.9
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Nik Bernaz
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Nik Bernaz
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Can't find data record in database table course_categories.
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Kenneth Mark Bulquerin
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Kenneth Mark Bulquerin
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Can not select roles anymore as a manager
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frank weissman
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frank weissman
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Intl extension on Moodle for web
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Anas Kambal
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Howard Miller
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Impossible to install plugins
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Arnaud Forster
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Arnaud Forster
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Slow Loading
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Gilbert Loyogoy
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Gilbert Loyogoy
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Moodle upgrade 3.9+ causes course data to disappear
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Jared Ackerman
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Jared Ackerman
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Upgrade 2.9+ to 3.0.10
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Murilo Saldanha
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Murilo Saldanha
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problem after fresh installation of moodle 3.9.1
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Saleen mahmoud
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Emma Richardson
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Database Migration
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Gilbert Loyogoy
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Gilbert Loyogoy
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Plugin Installation Issues
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Jens Gilges
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Rubens Ramos
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Migrating Moodle (Bitnami on gCloud)
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Adrian Blood
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Adrian Blood
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Upgrading from 3.4 to 3.9
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alejandro alves
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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After Upgrade to Moodle 3.5 - Your messages are temporarily unavailable due to upgrades in the ...
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Mark Schultz
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Mark Schultz
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Upgrading fails because of server timeout - help!
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Andrew Lian
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S. Ba.
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Scheduled Task
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Syed Ali
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Syed Ali
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como solucionar el error de error/debug/missingconfigversion en mi hosting
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COORPORACION EDUCATIVA VIRTUAL YACHAY
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Emma Richardson
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Plugin Installation Date
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Sourish Bose
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Sourish Bose
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Update to the next few versions
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omid hamedi
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omid hamedi
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Needing to restart Nginx and PhP once in a while
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Blockchain Man
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Blockchain Man
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Best way to upgrade very old sites
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Steve R
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Steve R
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Cannot duplicate quiz activities in any moodle version
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Leandro C.
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Amanda Morgan
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Upgrade from version 23 to 28
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Alberto Montoto
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Luis de Vasconcelos
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Moodle new installation 3.9.1 stops after installation
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Lutz Dausend
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Lutz Dausend
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Changing Charset
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Frances Clynes
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Frances Clynes
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New to community and workplace installation question
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Jose Gomez
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Howard Miller
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This site can't be reached during installation
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Omar Sherif
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Phạm Trung
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SMTP connect error with Gmail after upgrade to 3.7
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Emma Richardson
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Arnoldo Diaz
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Adding new question type error
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Sridharan Soundarajan
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Sridharan Soundarajan
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HTTP Error 500, can't currently handle this request.
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Alberto Montoto
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Alberto Montoto
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Moodle install / update issue
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Residency PBSG
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Ken Task
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Opcache
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Edilberto Solis, Jr.
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Edilberto Solis, Jr.
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Page turns blank when I click on "Turn editing on" button
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Madelyne de Bruin
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Madelyne de Bruin
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Store moodledata on S3 and use with multiple EC2 instances
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Santosh Nagargoje
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Howard Miller
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Instillation in a VPS error
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John Muthabuku
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John Muthabuku
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3.9.1 Upgrade - File Picker/upload and Site Admin Save Issues
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Mary Taylor
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Ken Task
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moodledata folder in mount disk
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Anonymous User
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Anonymous User
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Possible cron ownership issue
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Dominic Myers
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Ken Task
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Moodle upgrade to 3.9 - stuck at mariadb upgrade
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Todd W. Roat
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Todd W. Roat
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Installation problem
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Manish Maharjan
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Manish Maharjan
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How to stop password change on every login
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Todor Totev
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Todor Totev
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Config.php database issue
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Desmond Suarez II
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Howard Miller
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Backup from moodledata folder?
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Alex B
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Alex B
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Moodle Cron Issue After Upgrade
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Vincent Basile
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jason everling
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cant upload big size file (120mb pdf file )
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akshay pol
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akshay pol
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Unexpected end of JSON input after migrating/upgrading
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Kalle Isotalus
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Mario Torres
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Upgrading from moodle 3.4 to 3.9.1
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Sa'eed Ologunde
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Ken Task
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Can't add activities or blocks on new install
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Lynn M
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Lynn M
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You are trying to register a site with a URL that was previously used by a registered site.
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amr khaled
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Mary Cooch
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Moodle + Oauth2 : Is client ID supposed to be visible when failing to login with a normal google...
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Alex Craglorn
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Alex Craglorn
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I am installing moodle on my subdomain
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Dianne Schamrel
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Ken Task
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"Error reading from database " displayed after upgrading
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Ravi Prakash
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Leon Stringer
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Duplicate admin category name ERROR
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Amos Wanyoike
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Amos Wanyoike
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After upgrade to 3.9.1 Add an activity or resource not loading
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Marius S
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Ken Task
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Problem with SMTP
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Alejandro González
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Alejandro González
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How to send automatic emails from a noreply address
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Sanjay P. K.
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Lighttpd install for Debian/Ubuntu users
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Walter Byrd
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Howard Miller
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Error: database driver problem detected
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Hulela Barulaganye
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Helen Foster
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Moodle upgrade to 3.9.1 : file manager issue
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Samuel LMB
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Samuel LMB
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LibreLambda document converter Not install
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Muhammad Naeem
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Muhammad Naeem
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how can i remove /moodle end of moodle site
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sara amini
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sara amini
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Problems in updating from 3.5.to 3.9
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Irith Herman
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Alain Raap
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version 10.2.29 is required and you are running 5.7.30
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António Moreira
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Richard Wallace
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Connection reset after installing plugin
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Kevin Meimban
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Kevin Meimban
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Problem with moodle docs for nginx install
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Walter Byrd
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Walter Byrd
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Moodle install insists I enter a password, but will not let me enter a password
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Walter Byrd
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Howard Miller
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MOODLE pages jambled up
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Raphael Muonga
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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After upgraading all courses do not appear on frontpage (Moodle 3.8))
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Vaibhav Rane
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Vaibhav Rane
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path to ghostscript and unoconv not working though they are there
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Jerry Lau
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Juan Gomez
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Moodle "3.10" branch is not for productive use
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Guido Roessling
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Howard Miller
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Site admin error Class 'core_admin\local\settings\filesize' not found
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Amir Syarifudin El Rasyid
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Leon Stringer
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Dropdowns only go to 2020 in Moodle 2.5.2+
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Lee Mulvogue
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James Steerpike
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Can't find data record in database table context.
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Nelson Homer Talag
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Zdeněk Válek
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Moodle UI is not loading correctly.
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Chamidu Samarasinghe
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Chamidu Samarasinghe
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Zoom Integration in Moodle - For More than one teacher
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Ravi Rawat
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Sati Pasala NSW Inc
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refresh_forum_post_counts repeats itself 'forever' in cron
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Johan Myny
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Johan Myny
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Missing from disk
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Ramanujan Club
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Ramanujan Club
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Problems upgrading from 3.8 to 3.9 (command line)
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Ruben Cancho
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Ruben Cancho
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Can't find data record in database table course
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Lynn M
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Howard Miller
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Can't add activity or resource
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Aurimas Žagunis
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Helen Foster
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Plugin dependencies check ( Dependencies check failed for tool_licensemanager, tool_moodlenet)
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حورية ربعي
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Leon Stringer
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feature request - install.php
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Corey Brett
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Ken Task
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Problem trying to read data from your Moodle database.
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Amit Batajoo
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Amit Batajoo
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New Person
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Robert Conway
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Mary Cooch
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Link disappeared with upgrade
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Heleni Lindsell
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Heleni Lindsell
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