Let me get this straight..

- I zip my current vb3, then unzip it on my HD and place it a a folder name vbOLD
- then I download newest version of vb3, then upzip it on my HD and place it a a folder name vbNEW

then follow steps 2,3 ?

thanks

bump :)

After comparing files and upload ,should I also upgrade the forum using the
http://www.domain.com/forum/install/upgrade.php

?

nice can this work for IPB forum too?

when i hit ctrl+d to compare folders not all files are listed.For example in the admin cp folder 4 ".js" files are listed in vbold folder and 0 files listed in vbnew folder.At the bottom it says "127 removals '777 insertions '204 changes"

anyone know what's up?

^^^^anybody can snwer this?Really need to do an upgrade....

Right now, have the evaluation version because I have to get ahold of them for some varification thing, but, as I'm sure this was already addressed, I have a "dumb" question with using this.

I did the steps you said, and I have it all compared, now:

1. do I just go ahead upload any and all files to my server that are NOT in the old version? And will this be safe? For example. all the Skype stuff?

2. on the files that do show the changes, like example: function.php, do I just go ahead and copy over all 539 changes it says?

I'm assuming, if it is changed in the old version, those sections should stay there, but if I bring over the new sections from the new one to a file, will it play with my hacked part of that file?

Does that make any sense? Sorry, just timid.

Is there a support link someone can send me too, I'm getting nothing back from anyone here.

Will this tutorial work with the latest versions of VB?

Very few modifications are made to files since 3.5.0 came out. However, as it is possible that you may have installed a modification that made changes to one of your files, this method will still work.

This tutorial will work with any vBulletin version (if close). ;)
You will not be ok if you want to upgrade from 2.x to 3.x