Im trying to resuurect an old copy of UBB for a customer - the goal is to extract the 200k of threads out so they can be used for reference material

The files I have go back at least 3 years

I have what looks like a dump of the file structure and it appears it was cgi based and installed on a windows server

Can anyone tell me how I can tell what version of UBB this was and then of course I want to try to resurrect the content so it can be extracted and imported into current forum or at least bring the data back so it can be searched

Any help would be appreciated
Doug

CGI would be UBB.Classic; the version number should be printed inside the cgi files in the cgibin (at the top).

As for how to resurrect them, upload everything to the server, if it's a complete dump (cgi, vars, members, and the non-cgi directories) then you can just chmod them (follow the install guide; links to them are provided on the forum, use the search) and access the control panel. You will need the admin password, you can get this by opening the cgi file in the member directory associated with any admin user, it will be shown in plain text.

thanks !
it looks like version 5.47d
does that sound familiar ?
assuming I can get it running is there any chance to get this updated to 6.7 so that i can attempt to import them into vbulletin ?

It's possible to get it running without a problem, so long as you have all of the files available for it to be installed that is.

Why vBulletin? UBB.threads is BY FAR a better forum solution. Upgrade to UBB.threads instead.

thanks for the help guys

The the forum is already running VBulletin with 1.3 million posts 150k threads and has been for years they have asked me to try to resurrect about 200,000 old posts from a 4 or 5 year old version of UBB

Is there are free version I can use to test and upgrade this old install simply for the purpose of importing to VB ?

We don't have free versions, been a while for that. I imagine vbulletin would have the answers for you on how to import into their software.

vb imports recent versions - which is why Im asking for help finding old versions so I can try to get the DB updated to recent version - to make it possible to import

Unfortunately, sharing versions would invalidate our license agreement with Groupee; so by giving you access to a download we'd be forfeiting our rights to them in the future.

Well... sure, we'd love to let you borrow a copy to import into another software

I'm sure the fine folks at vb will be able to help you import. If they don't currently support it one of their dev people would do it for a fee.