# Pledge escalation on unarchival

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pledge-escalation-on-unarchival/3247>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [June 11, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pledge-escalation-on-unarchival/3247 "2017-06-11T17:50:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wswld](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/wswld/32/1565_2.png) [@wswld](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/wswld)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pledge-escalation-on-unarchival/3247/1 "2017-06-11T17:50:05Z")

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I archived this goal: [https://www.beeminder.com/wswld/steps](https://www.beeminder.com/wswld/steps)

Later I thought of restarting it but it requires $5 pledge now, but it didn’t derail the last time! You can see it clearly on the graph that it wasn’t due to a derailment. Is there a way to restart this kind of goal without a pledge but preserving the data?

Also I had a rogue archival for another goal and it required pledge escalation too but this one is critical enough so that I just emailed support. Is support the only way to resolve this kind of issue?

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pledge-escalation-on-unarchival/3247/2 "2017-06-12T18:13:50Z")

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Sounds like a bug! Thanks so much for reporting it!

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**Author:** ![grayson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/grayson/32/1336_2.png) [@grayson](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/grayson)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pledge-escalation-on-unarchival/3247/3 "2017-06-22T12:07:14Z")

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FWIW this was also reported back in January by @peppertoni :

> [@Unarchive Goal Re-pledge screen unclear](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/unarchive-goal-re-pledge-screen-unclear/2802/4):
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> Looks like there might be other bugs here. This is what I got when unarchiving a goal that I hadn’t derailed on and it still had the original pledge of $0. That doesn’t seem fair… I wasn’t quite sure that Beeminder would be that rude so I pressed the button and sure enough my pledge has been bumped to $5. @dreev

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**Author:** ![electriclouds](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/electriclouds/32/1659_2.png) [@electriclouds](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/electriclouds)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pledge-escalation-on-unarchival/3247/4 "2018-03-27T02:24:42Z")

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A similar thing just happened for me – I unarchived two goals that were at $5 pledges when I archived them originally. Chose to unarchive them and keep the same $5 pledge, but when they restarted, it looks like they both did a “RESTARTED ON” and immediately after that a “RECOMMITTED ON”.

~~Not a big deal for me because I don’t think that I will derail on them between now and next week (I set them both to decrease back to the $5).~~