hey there,

Currently i am not really sure why you hitting this warning when you trying to restore, perhaps you can backup this table #__easyblog_mediamanager and store in other place first, then remove all the existing row data from that table.

After restore finish then import back that data in that table.

I'm not needing to restore it now but before any major changes on the site I use Akeeba Backup in case I need to restore the site to an earlier state. It usually takes me about 30 seconds to do that as everything is stored insinda a single .JPA file.

My qyestion is related to the EasyBlog table #__easyblog_mediamanager; what is it for, what does it do, why it;s so big and can I empty it as a database optimization step?

Basically what this table does is recorded the new folder and file which you created/uploaded from the Easyblog media manager.

May i know your site is it using Easyblog older version before? because I believe those data was created from your older version of Easyblog. In Easyblog 5, we no longer use this table but to be safe the old data still need to be there.

Perhaps you can export this table #__easyblog_mediamanager for backup first, then truncate this table #__easyblog_mediamanager and do your database optimization step.

After you done, try take a look the existing post and see is it everything work fine.