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hey all!

we had some troubles with a corrupted database (all thankfully solved now). we exported all the data from our old install, cleaned it up manually, created a new, clean install on a pristine new database, and imported everything again. almost everything is working perfectly now, except for recurring contributions. we were not able to retain the "recurring" marker on the contribution record, and as a result, while paypal is sending an IPN and the IPN is successful, it's not registering the payments in CiviCRM.

regular single-payment IPNs are coming through just fine. but somehow we have managed to come unhooked. any idea if adding the recurring notation in the correct field might solve this? and if so, can anyone give me a tip on what the correct field might be? is there a way to add the notation to donations via the ui? or once the payments become discontinuous, are we out of luck?

if we're stuck hand-updating these donations every month, well -- we'll live. but it would be great if we could sort them out.

terrific -- thank you! i'll try that.