So Sorry!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:45 pm
Well friends, I am so sorry that the update failed so miserably. The new software installs perfectly, so it says and the restore of the backup, according to the board, is successful, but when I went to the Board Index page, none of the forums nor messages nor users were in fact restored.
We have now the 3.2.0 version of the Board software, (the version we've been using since March 11th or so. The old board is still readable in it's old place, as far as I know. The down side is that everybody will have to re-register and hopefully use new passwords.
I'm going too keep looking for what the problem is. I tried the update & it failed, Then I tried a full reload and it failed the same way. A couple of times I deleted the database & rebuilt that from scratch. Same results! Nothing works with phpBB anymore. i don't know why and the assistants at the help board don't seem to have a clue what to do. So here we are. It something comes up in the next week or so and I think I can fix it then I'll try that, but it might mean loosing any posts that we make between now & then. i don't like that either. We'll see what we can do.
Please, everybody, re-register soon and I'll try to hold everything together. I've got work to do yet. the OffTopic Forum must be re-created and I've got ot set up the security that keeps the bots from registering. I'll try to do that tonight.
We have now the 3.2.0 version of the Board software, (the version we've been using since March 11th or so. The old board is still readable in it's old place, as far as I know. The down side is that everybody will have to re-register and hopefully use new passwords.
I'm going too keep looking for what the problem is. I tried the update & it failed, Then I tried a full reload and it failed the same way. A couple of times I deleted the database & rebuilt that from scratch. Same results! Nothing works with phpBB anymore. i don't know why and the assistants at the help board don't seem to have a clue what to do. So here we are. It something comes up in the next week or so and I think I can fix it then I'll try that, but it might mean loosing any posts that we make between now & then. i don't like that either. We'll see what we can do.
Please, everybody, re-register soon and I'll try to hold everything together. I've got work to do yet. the OffTopic Forum must be re-created and I've got ot set up the security that keeps the bots from registering. I'll try to do that tonight.