No, I know what the archives are. It's not my first day. I'm just confused as to why we archive QSF. Nothing ever happens up here. I mean occasionally people like you find valid things that are broken or are in need of upgrades. The other 99% are people making asinine troll requests to the admins who don't give a damn.
I'll poke around in the forum permissions later and see if that's the issue. Otherwise, we might be looking at an accidental server-side pruning. Really though, is it any major loss if we can't recover it?