| Importing old forum files broke my new forum. [message #166949] |
Fri, 06 April 2012 17:57  |
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Tikatu
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Yeah. We're trying to copy a FUD forum from a friend's web host to a new FUD forum on mine. Never occurred to me that she needed to update first, and of course, I ignored the "don't import files from an older version" warning. (Hers is 2.7 while mine is the 3.0.3 build.)
Now I can't get into my forum's admin at all. In fact I get a "invalid URL" message (oddly enough, the header and such are from my custom template) and if I click on the little "OK" button, I get this: "FATAL ERROR: No session, check your forum's URL and COOKIE settings".
So, what do I do? Obviously something is still semi-working if it's reading my custom template. Do I need to uninstall and reinstall? (I can copy the custom template for later use via my webhost file manager, so I won't lose that?) I figure my friend needs to upgrade on her end and I've asked her to do that. Problem is: will upgrading on her end wipe the board (as it has in the past)?
Please let me know how to proceed. The one thing I do NOT want to do is copy some 8 years worth of posts from one forum to the other. BTDT, did not like.
Thanks in advance.
ETA: I did create a data dump of my original forum but without the admin panel, I don't know how to reimport it.
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