Import Problem

[taffy056]

Hi,

I have just imported a vb3 board into mine, now I can't access anything within it, I closed the forum before I started and now when I try to login to the admin panel I get the message that I am not registered. When I was half way through importing users I got the attached error message.

thanks

taffy

[Steve Machol]

The first thing I recommend is that you reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server.

[taffy056]

Hi,

still cannot access anything, is there any other steps to follow?

taffy

[Steve Machol]

I'm afraid that if you got an error saying your user is not registered, then that's exactly what it means. The error during the import must have caused a proboem.

Did you make a backup of the database prior to doing this import? If so, I suggest restoring that backup and trying again.

[taffy056]

Hi Steve,

I did make what I thought was a backup, unforunately I have multiple domains and databases, and I downloaded the wrong one, is there any other way I can resolve this situation?

taffy

[Steve Machol]

There's not much that can be done about the missing accounts. What you can do is register a new account. Then upload the tools.php script in the DO_NOT_UPLOAD folder of the zip file to your Admin CP directory. Use this to promote your user to Admin, then immediately remove this script.

[taffy056]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the answer, I lost most of my users, but was able to recover a lot of them from the other forum I am running :) Learnt an important lesson though, always backup before you mess around with the database.

Taffy