Upgrading from 3.8.9 - PLEASE HELP

[bareweb]

Ok got it. Thanks again for all your help! I'm up and running....

[bareweb]

That setting is already set to Yes. I think signature pics were stored in the sigpic table and included in a user's signature by using the following BB code: [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

Is there a...

[bareweb]

I have a working 5.6.1 forum! Unfortunately signatures are not showing up after the v5 upgrade. They were there after moving to v4. I found that they are all still in the database as blobs in the sigpic...

[bareweb]

Trying it from the command line now and it seems to pick up where the web left off. Fingers crossed it will get past step 3.

UPDATE: Command line is working! I should have started with the...

[bareweb]

Thanks again for your help! It seems to be doing things for a while as I can push the Query Status button and it shows me the queries being run some of which take 5 minutes at a time, but eventually it...

[bareweb]

Making progress but appear to be stuck at the following step. It runs for several minutes with queries like you see below. Eventually, clicking Query Status reports that there are no processes running...

[bareweb]

It got stuck several times and I was able to get past the hangs by refreshing the page and restarting the upgrade. It always picked up where it left off. I now have 4.2.5 installed and am in the process...

[bareweb]

Thanks for the reply! I’m pushing forward with upgrading to 4.2.5 first since I still have php 5.6.0 on my server. It is taking a long time on 4.0.3 step 7. Assuming it may be doing something to the...

[bareweb]

I'm trying to update to vBulletin 5.6.1 all the way from vBulletin 3.8.9.

I read through the entire upgrade documentation and have a couple questions.

1. Should I overwrite the...