Is it possible to restore the user base after a fresh install

[Dismounted]

They may as well start learning. It will help them in the future.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I suggest that you jsut restore the old backup, run upgrade.php to upgrade the database to the current version and remove all that you do not need.

[jim6763nva]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

They may as well start learning. It will help them in the future.

Agreed. I will try to get her more involved however right now is not a good time for her due to some personal matters she's taking care of.

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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

I suggest that you jsut restore the old backup, run upgrade.php to upgrade the database to the current version and remove all that you do not need.

Ok, thanks.

Here's a little more "background". The site was orginally installed in /public_html/ and we decided to wipe everything after taking a backup of the database, then do a fresh install install in /public_html/forum/. The owner of the site had heavily altered the color scheme of the default style. I was thinking of reverting the changes.

I'm thinking if I restore the database completely all the pathing in it will be wrong based on the new setup. I suppose I could just reinstall the 3.7.0 rc2 files as they were before, but how would move the files to a "forum" folder and have the pathing be correct. Seems to me it's a lot less work to install a fresh copy and just import the users, if possible. Would it be enough to just import the user table? I'm guessing there are other tables that go along with it such as permissions, etc. I'd do it by hand through the admincp, but I don't know the passwords or email addys the users had.

Ok.. I think I've covered everything.. lol

[Bradley_Wint]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

This is totally wrong!! Styles & templates are stored in the database.

I apologize, I made a mistake but could you be a little nicer about it. It's not like you're talking to a 5 year old.

[jim6763nva]

Originally Posted by Bradley_Wint

I apologize, I made a mistake but could you be a little nicer about it. It's not like you're talking to a 5 year old.

I think he was just thinking that someone was trying to get support for a pirated copy of vb, but I agree, I was also surprised by this response initially when I read that.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Bradley_Wint

I apologize, I made a mistake but could you be a little nicer about it. It's not like you're talking to a 5 year old.

Sorry if you took it wrong, but i did put a strong warning not to attack you, but to warn the member asking this question not to follow your suggestion as it would destroy data he might want to keep.

If you tell someone that styles are not stored in the database and he can without problems restore a backup without loosing his styles, then this is a wrong advice and potentially destroy his (style) data.

That is why i put a strong reply.