Best way to clean up database?
I have been using vbulletin since 3.0.3 and well I have installed and uninstalled quite a few hacks over the years. But I am noticing that a lot of hacks don't UNinstall themselves all that well and they seem to leave garbage in the database. I noticed also mostly in the phrases and random tables in the database. So what I would like to do is somehow start vbulletin from SCRATCH. Then just reinstall all my hacks. BUT I obviously want to keep all my threads, posts, members, private messages etc. Sorta like doing a fresh install of windows and then just reinstalling all my programs. Is this possible?
I thought about possibly creating a fresh install of vbulletin and then importing certain tables that vbulletin uses from scratch, but I'm not sure this will work because one table that I know is used is the PHRASE table which obviously would have most of the junk I want to get rid of.
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