with that number of menu items I suspect your problem is something very different

php has a default limit of 1000 variables on a form submission so I believe the changes are failing because you are above the maximum

If you check the server error logs you should be able to see an error message about this (you might need to increase the error level reporting first)

Now I dont know why you have built the site with so many menu items. The only fix is to either restructure your web site (I'm guessing you don't want to do that) or to change the maximum setting in php

As this is a server task the BEST way to do this can vary between server setups so it's best that you speak to the hosts about the exact way that is best on their servers.

What you want to ask them to do is to increase max_input_vars from the default value of 1000 to something like 3000.

This is the correct code for that
max_input_vars = 3000

But if the host is running suhosin they may need to ALSO add

suhosin.post.max_vars = 3000
suhosin.request.max_vars = 3000

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Is this still an issue for you?

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the delayed response, I've been off for a week.

I seemed to get a bit further when I had some time to investigate this.
This was ONLY an issue when I was developing a new layout where I was
reusing an existing 'live' menu. If I copied the menu and used that version
it was totally fine, which while annoying it's a suitable workaround for me
and that is probably mentioned somewhere in the developers guides and I've
overlooked it. I had tried both the native menu extension and multiple
third party modules and all were giving me issue when reusing the menu, but
like I said all fine once I had either created a new menu or used a copy.
All the site menus are a maximum of 20 links so the maximum settings I
don't think would have been an issue.

Cheers,
Brian

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