advise please
 

hi to all you coders and members

ok ive a site which is running on the t.s 3.1 nulled version at present

my question is is it possible to upgrade to a new version you have on here with out loosing members torrents and forums ect

thanks for your replies in advance

cheers Thor

Re: advise please
 

You can upgrade, inside each version there is an upgrade script
before doing anything you should back-up your files (the entire site) and the database !

My advice: You should test it first, install the tracker on your PC (localhost) and make a test upgrade!

:smoke:

Re: advise please
 

thankyou for your reply its appreciated

from the 3.1 version nulled one

wot one would you recommend to use as to which would be more

compatible as i see u have several version on here and rather be recommended a tried safe

version to upgrade mine to

thanks again for your advise and help in this

cheers

Re: advise please
 

you need to do the upgrade step by step ( from version to version )
is not working from 3.1 to 4.3 for example.... only with manual changing the database structure, etc.
now i working to a upgrade from 3.8 to 4.3. i managed to import the forum, the users but the torrents is not working.....
so make backup before any try !
or get all versions nulled (3.2, 3.3, 3.4.... etc to the last version you whant to install)

Re: advise please
 

so is it possible to install say version 5 on a test site and move all the users and bits and bobs over then swop the 2 versions over on the server then

if you get wot i mean or would i still loose lots of stuff ect

thanks

Re: advise please
 

It is possible to move the users.

Search and you will find the script to import users and you can modify it to your needs

Re: advise please
 

or you could try manually doing it.. id suggest testing this first though as ive not ever used xam's shit

put all the files required in the latest source onto your test site (just the files dont import the database)

take a copy of ur existing database and set it up for the test site and then set the test source to point to the test database (you still following ??? lol)

then simply go through the SQL adding all the tables/fields that are missing for the new source to work... after that just get a few friends to browse and use the test tracker for a few hours and check every section just to make sure as you may encounter a few errors (most errors can be solved with a combination of coffee and google)

it may sound complicated but it beats upgrading bit by bit .. plus u never kno .. u might actually learn something about programming along the way :)

Re: advise please
 

i just like to say thanks alot for all your

input and advise its appreciated thanks alot all

cheers thor