[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Chief Corn

Was "trying" to cleanup my forum's mysql of old hacks, etc that were'nt in use using phpmyadmin. Searched for "Shoutbox" (vbShoutbox 1.03 non-htl) which never worked and started deleting phrases and such. Where i screwed up was deleting lines from the "setting" table where there were shoutbox lines and dropped the table. Now I can't do anything on the site. So I tried making a new database and installed a seperate forum to export the setting table to my old....but it didn't do a thing. Is there a way to export my forums usernames, posts, threads, etc. into the new database? Both installations of vB are running 3.03.

Ouch...I take it you didn't backup your database before doing this did you? Here is what you would need to do:

• * on the new install reinstall all the hacks that were on the other db.
  * export the data from all the table except the settings table which you deleted and import the data to the new forum.
  * Check out the functionality of the new forum if everything is fine then...
  * Backup the old forum's db and after that dump all data.
  * export data only from new forum and import into old forums db...
  * Good Luck!