Problems upgrading from 3.6.2 to 3.8

[SurfCityvBer]

Aaah... thank you very much.

Because it's on a VPS, my ISP instructed me where the php.ini file is so I could change the value myself to 32M.

Phpinfo now reports Local Value...

[SurfCityvBer]

Problems upgrading from 3.6.2 to 3.8 - stopping at Import latest admin help

I also did re-download the package and ftp'd the xml and other ascii files in ascii with no change in the si...

[SurfCityvBer]

I've been running vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 for about a year, and now I am trying to upgrade to 3.8.2.

I got as far as the vBulletin 3.8 Upgrade System, XML Versions 3.8.2, and it's stopping...

[SurfCityvBer]

I will add that I thought I was at version 3.6.8 (at least through an update, not upgrade) before this all happened, but my admincp screen is saying I'm at 3.6.5.

I did run the install/upgrade.php...

[SurfCityvBer]

I've had some issues trying to do an upgrade to 3.7, so in trying to go back to my 3.65 version, I discovered some other issues. (Not sure what version I was at as an IT team recovered the forum from...

[SurfCityvBer]

Thanks for the insight.

At least I figured out somehow my Default View Age got set down low. I think I'm losing my mind.

Still waiting to hear from my IT guy.

[SurfCityvBer]

Oh, the joys of recovering from an unsuccessful upgrade...

I was trying to do a 3.7.2 upgrade from 3.6.5-ish but I had to back out of the upgrade due to a possible conflict with the Turck...

[SurfCityvBer]

I'm running a currently non-branded version of 3.65 that spent the first year of its 4-year life branded and I'm getting hit with just about every spammer registrant listed above. I simply banned the...

[SurfCityvBer]

I've got a similar question and I wish I knew the answer above before deleting the spammer registrant's profile... is there something that can easily be done to delete the PMs after you've deleted the...

[SurfCityvBer]

Thank you very much!

[SurfCityvBer]

I checked a few existing threads recently on deleting groups of registrations -- primarily related to automated spam registrations -- and while the question was asked, the topic was changed to how to...

[SurfCityvBer]

Just to maybe offer some assistance...

I had this exact type of error before I realized that my phpBB SQL data backup from another server had not imported properly into mySQL -- ImpEx was...

[SurfCityvBer]

I have a database backup from just before anything was touched on the server (i.e., before the RAM upgrade and subsequent other problems and OS upgrades, etc.), so it should be a good backup... if I'm...

[SurfCityvBer]

Thanks, Steve...

Sorry about the misleading title... I should have clarified... I don't know if the issue is a result of the upgrade, but the upgrade may be a factor.

What happened...

[SurfCityvBer]

Had a server crash and the IT guys rebuilt a fresh Mac OS, PHP and MySQL from scratch, and moved our old 3.5 vBulletin to the latest 3.6 version.

Things seem to run fine except for the following...