That's great. I'll try it tonight.

It's going to be a pain to get eight thousand members to re-register without them using each other's usernames, but I guess there's no other option. I just hope they all remember the usernames they had before!

Anyway .. thanks for the info! Now I can post another topic about another little problem =)

Matt

Lol... Matt, be sure you tell the board owner to back stuff up, just for this type of issue :x...

Hehe. Yeah I know. I used to run their website and bulletin board and ran a full backup every week. But that was over a year ago and I guess no one bothered!

Ah well.

I'm tempted to dig out an old backup which is bound to include a load of the older member files, but then there would be people who need to update their account as well as people who need to re-register .. nah .. I think it'll be more simple for everyone involved if we just start from scratch. We'll just have to make sure that the announcement on the home page explains it all in detail =)

Yeh, scratch sounds better; theres bound to be a load of users who don't use email addresses anymore, plus it saves time on the dead members ...