This may sound funny but we don't have a backup <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> . This was only handed to us recently because the former administrator left for the US. Yes we will upgrade to 6.5.4 but do you think the database is recoverable? I showed some specimen of the garbage to an online contact and she was able to decode the garbage back to it's original state. The problem is, her asking fee is too high. Did anybody here experience the same problem before? Or maybe can somebody show me a link to decode the garbage?