[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Andrew, i've not upgraded to this RC yet, i will later tonight, on upgrade will all my previous settings etc still be in place?

Also, i have to say what a huge amount of work you have gone to, i just checked out all those extras that you have worked on - simply fantastic!

On upgrade, most settings (and all internal LDM settings) stay intact and transfer over directly. You need to be careful with the following:

- installed extras are automatically uninstalled by vbulletin during a product upgrade, so you need to reinstall them. Their settings are kept intact, however.

- on the other hand, vbadvanced modules remain installed, and may not work properly after the upgrade, so need to be reinstalled because of the improvements made for 2.3.0

Your comments on the extras are appreciated. As you say, people have looked for a lot of special features over the years. The interesting point (apart from the functions that these add) has been to develop an infrastructure which does not get broken and does not require too much 'jumping through hoops' to get the job done. The awkward beasts tend to be some of the media players.