installed beyond compare to see if i could figure it out in that app.
*cleaning and preparing my pistol for self inflicted headshot*

Please don't repeatedly post - just edit your post if necessary :)

I would to propose adding these tools, in addition to araxis and bc. Both of the tools below are free, open source and full featured compare/diff/merge tools:

For Windows: WinMerge http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

For Linux: Meld: http://meld.sourceforge.net/

My favourite is meld, since it has 2-way and 3-way merge (like Araxis).

This means you can compare the old vB, your hacked vB and the new vB all in one shot, and pick and chose what to merge.

I had big big problems with this.

Once I done upgrade, there were alot of errors, and also my files paths were wrong. I backed everything up. But I now want to go back or get this sorted.

My forums just seem screwed

I cant log into AdminCP, its says logged in, but then directs me back to log in

I can go on forums, but as they are off the now, there is nothing I can do. Also some of my images paths are gone. And Also I get errors when I go to some bits

Spent 4 hours on this, really in need of some pro help

Watson

I know this is way old. . .
I use BBEdit from http://www.barebones.com/
But so far my hacls have been pretty simple.
BBEdit is a very nice text editor.

does work for vb3? like to know before even try. the last thing i need to do have is redo my site.

It totally works for vb3. nothing is different from the tutorial. Just check each file one by one and edit the necessary things. I upgraded heavily hacked board from 3.0.3 to 3.0.5

because the software mentioned above wasn't produced for vbulletin use only so it should work with any version of vbulletin or any other script that you can read it by notepad.

using a file compare after upgrade? I have several hacks but don't want to upgrade using file compare before hand. I plan to just do a full upgrade from 3.0.1 to 3.0.6, which will wipe out my hacks, then when the dust has settled from that and the forum is running track down the files I need to edit to get the hacks back in. Does this sound about right or am I overlooking anything major? -yikes!!

I just upgraded from 3.0.5 -> 3.0.6 using Araxis Merge. Took me about an hour, but I have about a dozen hacks installed and had to rerun some queries manually.