Yep.. Unfortunately, my work year has been very busy(months of 80+ hour weeks), and I haven't been able to spend as much time on my board as I have had to spend at work, or travelling for work. IRL I am a mainframe operating systems engineer, and I have a number of clients I am assigned to serve.. So, I got a bit behind on upgrading to VB, and I was waiting for VB 3 to stabilize, and then I was waiting on vbportal, and on the list goes...

Nonetheless, I am still looking for a solution. I am currently running my xx-th iteration of the upgrade on my test site, trying to see if I can spot any nuance at all with what is happening along the way. Sometimes, this process just works perfectly, and other times, I get this weird arse behaviour where it drops most of this years attachments.. Go figgure.

And Go Figgure.. IT WORKED this time! The only change in process made was not removing the 'hash' field from the attachment table, and the attachpath from the settings table. the attachments as hack uninstall option did these thwo things, and I was too, after I ran the attachment_upgrade_new.php script.

I would really like to understand why it has seperate behaviours and what could be causing this. Code usually doesn't act fickle.

This seems like a good idea.

Is there any chance it will be updated to 3.6X?

vBulletin 3.6.x has default feature for this :D