Close forum, but how to preserve threads?

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Hmmz okay thanks. How about the archives (the ones that vB uses for search engines). Is it possible to just copy them and only keep those? I don't prefer to keep the vB site running.

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I'm closing one of my old vbulletin forums. There's a lot of valuable info in the forum threads though. What are ways to preserve these threads without having to keep vbulletin and it's database? All...

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So what you are saying is that I need to move the images to the filesystem in order to be able to download them? I was just wondering if there was a way to retreive them from the database,...

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Ahhh yes you are right. I totally overlooked that. It does say 'Album pictures are currently being stored in the database'.

Is it possible to retreive the pictures from my database someh...

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In admin cp, under User Albums/Picture Storage Type I see this checked:

'Move pictures into the file system without direct access to thumbnails'

So I guess that means that pictures...

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Where does vB store the Album Pictures that users upload?
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Is there any way to force inactive members to re-register? Or is the only option to delete those users?

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I need to implement a payment script in my forums but I'm not sure how to do it. What I would like is that people see the payment form on register.php, they can then sign up through the payment company...

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Can u pls tell me if this addon can be installed on an english vB? I mean, will I have to translate something, if possible?...

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Thanks but I don't really get it. I looked on forums/profile.php?do=editoptions on my registered user account (not admin) but I don't see an option that could be causing the tabs not to show. Which particular...

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I just noticed that when I view a users profile as admin that I see Visitor Messages, About Me, Statistics and Friends, but when a guest views a user profile he only sees the visitor messages but all...

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Did you find a good chat? I've been using flashchat for some years but it continues to be too problematic so I am desperately looking for some other chat solution.

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Thanks Tom. I decided to buy vbSEO after all. I already have it installed. I wonder how effective it will be when all the settings are at default. Anyway, I'll be spending some time in the vbseo forums...

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Please ignore my previous post. I was still sleepy.. With the information already given I think I should be able to set this up.

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Sounds good, but when are your users moved to a usergroup that does have PM privs? And how does it happen?...

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I just realised that a couple of years back I used to see wayyy more people in Who's Online on my site who were viewing the archive (forums/archive). And I mean WAY more. I'm wondering if something has...

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Hmmz is it automated or what?

How do you deal with it?

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I keep seeing LOTS of PMs like this on my vB sites:

'Hi,
I'm new here, how's it going?

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion...

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Do you mean that you would convert the movies that users upload to .swf somehow? I wouldn't know how to do it.

I'm still wondering how I can set only one specific forum to allow uploads from...

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I would like to know how I can do this. I'm guessing that I should add new allowable file extentions first in the admin cp? Once I've done that, how can I make sure that people will only be able to upload...