Save failed with the following error: MenusTableMenu: :_getNode Failed -

Option 1

Follow the steps below to fix this Joomla error message:

1. Login to your webhosting control panel.
2. Click on the phpMyAdmin, login to your database
3. Click on the SQL tab
4. Copy the query below and paste it in the textbox. REPLACE the database name and prefix in italics with your own.
5. Click on the 'GO' button.

In this example the database name is dbpref_joom2012 You need to changed this to your own database name. The second item to change is tbpf1_menu. Change this to your own database prefix.

INSERT INTO `dbpref_joom2012`.`tbpf1_menu` (`id`, `menutype`, `title`, `alias`, `note`, `path`, `link`, `type`, `published`, `parent_id`, `level`, `component_id`, `ordering`, `checked_out`, `checked_out_time`, `browserNav`, `access`, `img`, `template_style_id`, `params`, `lft`, `rgt`, `home`, `language`, `client_id`) VALUES ('1', '', 'Menu_Item_Root', 'root', '', '', '', '', '1', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0', '0', '', '0', '', '0', '0', '0', '', '0');

Option 2

1. Login to your webhosting control panel.
2. Click on the phpMyAdmin, login to your database
3. click on tbprf1_menu
4. Click on Insert in the top tab
5. id value is 1
6. title value is Menu_Item_Root
7. alias value is root
8. published value is 1
9. Click "Go"

That is it. Don't do anything else

Go back to your admin panel and see if you can now create a menu item.