Upgrading from a fresh install while moving servers - which folders to copy?

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Will selecting "Move Items from File System into Database" under User Picture Storage Type apply to all three folders - /avatars, /profilepics, and /signaturepics?

And by the...

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Which directories do you mean - do you mean profilepics and signaturepics? Are there any ways to move those to the database as well?

And after doing the "move to database" option...

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Thanks. The Admincp>Avatars>User Picture Storage Type section says:

If I click "Move Items from File System into Database", will that then make the avatars folder redundant?...

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Thank you. So avatars and such are stored in the database as well? What happens to the files like in the /avatars folder? There are no files or folders that need to be transferred?

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In my current install of vBulletin, I am suspecting that there might be files that are security hazards/hacks left over from the old ownership. I would like to move to another server while installing...

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Thanks for the responses guys So if I'm understanding the terms correctly, if the licenses expired more than 90 days ago and I'm the original buyer, then I can sell it - I just shouldn't expect much...

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I have a few inactive licenses for 3.5.4. Are these old licenses worth anything? Has anyone heard of people willing to buy expired licenses like that?

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Actually turns out it was due to various mod_security injection attack rules. My host had to whitelist some rules to stop this from happening.

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I have three styles - the Default Style, another style that's a child of the Default, and a third style which is a child of the second style.

In the two custom styles, I'm not able to edit...

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Thanks. The file is already on the server, I don't need to upload it. And I'd have to change the execution time to something ridiculous because the script will take a long time to finish.

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Dedicated, Linux.

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I just tried bigdump, thanks for the suggestion. Still had big load issues while it was running, and the fact that it needs to run from browser rather than command line is a problem - the restore will...

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Thanks for the suggestion.

I don't quite follow about the attachments though. Currently attachments are stored in public_html/attachments, and under Attachment Storage Type the default...

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Yes I'm using SSH.

No I haven't tried moving the files over, I'm using mysqldump and then executing the dump. Are you suggesting I should copy the DB files over directly?

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I'm in the process of transferring a forum from one server to another. I originally tried restoring a cpmove, but that failed because after a while the server load spiked so high that the server became...

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Is it possible the have the activation email resent as a user? Never got an re-activation email after changing my email on the cPanel forums, which use 3.8.2, caused my account to become inactive. I did...

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Yes that's it, thank you very much

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Is there a way to escape BB Code in a post without disabling it? Right now I just use the inserting spaces method, but I was wondering if there was a way to actually escape a tag outright.

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I'd like to rename or delete the /install folder for security purposes. Could this potentially cause any problems?

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I have to delete a few hundred posts due to some defamation legal issue between posters. I've been given URLs to the individual posts, which i can easily extract a list of post numbers from.
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