how i can back to 3.8.5 from 4.0.2
 

how i can back to vb3 ?
my forum is 4.0.2 ?

I have a method that works. It involves using 2 converters. Impex and IPB 3 converter.
If interested in method I can elaborate on it.

Why would you want to change back for?

thats good idea i think i will work about that

cuz vb4 still not good in RTL
and not good with ie 6 or 7
and so slow and take more memory
and hard to do any thing in normal servers
i can say this Vb4 just for good servers and just for ltr

How safe is this method ? have you tested it anywhere ? What happens to attachments ?

Edit : Just checked. That too his board is in Arabic. I wonder how safe your method will be for him.

I have used my method 6 times so far, only problem was around 10 percent
of members the password has to be reset.

I used a database backup. Luckily I saved one right before upgrading, then after realizing I didn't care for it too much, I used the backup right away.

But something tells me, you've been using VB 4 for a while now, so ignore my whole post. =)

Why is it no good with IE 6 or 7?

really !!! ? ? ? ?
u can try found something about rtl

What is rtl?

Right to left languages. Arabic is written from right to left unlike English which is written from left to right. vB4 is not able to display Arabic correctly in some browsers. This problem has been acknowledged by vB and apparently they are working on the problem.

However this is going to take some time and in the meantime the members of Arabic boards may not be so understanding of vB4 programing errors. They will just blame the site admin for not fixing the bugs.

understanding of vB4 programing errors ???
no comment

Just restore the backup you made before you upgraded to vb4.

ijust have old one :(

Up :(

Then send firefoxextreme a PM and give his method a try.

Sorry! That user has specified that they do not wish to receive emails. If you still wish to send an email to this user
:(

Try sending a pm, not e-mail. Anyway if you do a search then you will find a lot of people have done this by importing the data to another forum software like IP, SMF etc and then reimporting to 3.8.

There is no software to import data directly from 4.0 to 3.8 as of now.

I found after upgrading to 4x everything run really slow on my old host, changed hosting now and will never go back, try urljet hosting, well worth the money

I got hosting from godaddy ( which is very pro ) and my forums are amazing slow.

I have tried everything to make it fast, bu didn't work.

I have also using 4.0.2 and thinking go back to 3.8.4 and so dissapointed :(

i`m now at 3.8.5 :)