RC4 to Gold

[CityState]

Ok, I don't think there's a short cut to this...

I admire the rest of you guys who could do this without probs.

Please see this link, for those wanting to know where the rest of the RCx patches are:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=194469

You'll find them all here.

I will reinstall my old RC4 and try to upload my original RC4 dbase, since the current one is already updated to Gold.

Then I will do it RC4-5-6-7-Gold.

From there, I would remap the smilies since the majority comes out as blank.

Will post again, once I have progress.

[Ladysarajane]

Okay, download rc4 and restore your forum to what it was orginally. Still keeping a copy of those files of config.php, store, files, images(avatars etc)
Download the Changed files only package.
There is a package to change it from RC4-3.0. Upload the install file and point your browser to it. Follow the instructions including the step of uploading the "Changed files" at the appropriate time.
After you finish upgrading it to Gold, you can take a gold package, delete the forum file (saving those config.php store etc) upload the gold package and upload those saved files and hopefully the forum will work.

[CityState]

I am currently uploading my original RC4 files and dbase. Will look for the RC-Gold package you mentioned too while the uploading is taking place.

Just clarifying the step two you mentioned. After I upgraded the forum to Gold, I could take the option to make a Gold vanilla install by erasing all the files and uploading the vanilla Gold (and my old config, image, etc files) ? Did I understand you correctly Ladyscarajane?

[Ladysarajane]

You should keep all the files that make your forum personal (files-attachements, avatar-uploads, config.php, etc)
But you do not need to reinstall phpbb3 gold to get fresh files. After you update sucessfully, delete the forum file then upload all the gold files, then upload the config.php(you should always keep this) the avatar folder and file folders and that will give you a clean forum files and you still will keep your avatars, attachments and avatars and connecting you to the database(config.php).
Here is the link to the change files: http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/olympus.php

[CityState]

Hi Jenice,

Ok got it.

I just finished uploading the files and dbase of my old RC4. All the posts are there but I could not log in using any password.

hmmm...

[Ladysarajane]

Try to have it resend your password...

[CityState]

I was afraid you'd say that... I did it and I made the changes.

Does this mean that all the members need to do the same? :c

Also, I've noticed that the cancel button has disappeared from the postings.

Will push thru with the modifications.

[CityState]

Here comes the scary part...

The forum says I have the Gold version, even after I've uploaded the RC4 version already.

[Ladysarajane]

Where does the forum say this? In the ACP->Systems tab?

[CityState]

Ladysarajane, I really appreciate you helping me out... Thanks for staying with me thru this time.

Yes, it says that in the systems tab in ACP. I am currently uploading the RC5 upgrade and will proceed as planned, even if it says that.

Reason for me to go thru the normal process is that some features are not working, such as the "cancel" button in posts. In addition, some of my header and footer functions are not present as well as if the forum was not modified at all.

Let me try to delete everything and upload the orig files again. It could be my FTP process, just modifying different files, instead of overwriting everything...