Hello everyone.
I really hate to admit to this. In fact it's quite embarassing. But here I go.
I started up a community a little while back on some free forums (phpbb or whatever it's called). I was really new to vB, didn't know anything about setting it up, installing it, etc. I was mentioning this to a friend at work, and he said he "knew someone" who would do it for me. Awesome!
(Just so you understand this, it ended up being a friend of a friend of a guy I worked with said that he would set it up. I was told he just needed the money for the license.)
I paid the guy in person to get the job done. Finally, after a long horrible ordeal of getting them setup, they finally were there. MY FORUMS! YAY! I was so consumed with getting everything going, I didn't ask any questions.
Eventually things started to get fishy though, when I wanted the forums updated to newer versions, and the guy insisted on doing it for me. When I kept asking for my license, he danced around the question.
Then one day my friend called me up. Gives me some bad news. It turns out that this guy was a scammer and he put some pirated copy of a vB up for some other person. That person found out and got into a fight with the guy. My friend found out about it and told me. Sure enough, guess what he installed for me? :/
I am so aggravated at this point. I have tried so hard to contact him and get his personal information to post it here, but he is seemingly long gone.
It has been months and months since I paid this guy, and now I find out my forums aren't legitimate. I am so lost with what to do now.
I resolved when I found this out that I would jsut come here, buy a real license, and hope someone could tell me about how to keep my site content, and transfer it from the pirated copy to a real copy. Right now I have my forums disabled to avoid any trouble, but it's very important to me to not lose any of my content!
So there it is. That is my dilemna. I unwittingly had a pirated vB and now I know I need to purchase a real license, but I do have some questions about it.
Is it possible to transfer my content from the current pirated copy without any ill effects?
If it is possible, how do I go about doing it? Do I just backup my forums, then delete all the files from the server,then restore a backup?
I would really appreciate any input.
It was a complete accident, but still partially my fault for being dumb and not buying the license myself. Sorry to the vB staff and Jelsoft, etc. I really didn't know it until just a day ago.
Thanks guys,
CBV
I really hate to admit to this. In fact it's quite embarassing. But here I go.
I started up a community a little while back on some free forums (phpbb or whatever it's called). I was really new to vB, didn't know anything about setting it up, installing it, etc. I was mentioning this to a friend at work, and he said he "knew someone" who would do it for me. Awesome!
(Just so you understand this, it ended up being a friend of a friend of a guy I worked with said that he would set it up. I was told he just needed the money for the license.)
I paid the guy in person to get the job done. Finally, after a long horrible ordeal of getting them setup, they finally were there. MY FORUMS! YAY! I was so consumed with getting everything going, I didn't ask any questions.
Eventually things started to get fishy though, when I wanted the forums updated to newer versions, and the guy insisted on doing it for me. When I kept asking for my license, he danced around the question.
Then one day my friend called me up. Gives me some bad news. It turns out that this guy was a scammer and he put some pirated copy of a vB up for some other person. That person found out and got into a fight with the guy. My friend found out about it and told me. Sure enough, guess what he installed for me? :/
I am so aggravated at this point. I have tried so hard to contact him and get his personal information to post it here, but he is seemingly long gone.
It has been months and months since I paid this guy, and now I find out my forums aren't legitimate. I am so lost with what to do now.
I resolved when I found this out that I would jsut come here, buy a real license, and hope someone could tell me about how to keep my site content, and transfer it from the pirated copy to a real copy. Right now I have my forums disabled to avoid any trouble, but it's very important to me to not lose any of my content!
So there it is. That is my dilemna. I unwittingly had a pirated vB and now I know I need to purchase a real license, but I do have some questions about it.
Is it possible to transfer my content from the current pirated copy without any ill effects?
If it is possible, how do I go about doing it? Do I just backup my forums, then delete all the files from the server,then restore a backup?
I would really appreciate any input.
It was a complete accident, but still partially my fault for being dumb and not buying the license myself. Sorry to the vB staff and Jelsoft, etc. I really didn't know it until just a day ago.
Thanks guys,
CBV
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