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#79601 04/14/2002 11:15 AM
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I am getting ready to renew my lic and upgrade to 6.03 from 6.1. Board is hacked at present time, but want to get a clean install without loosing any members or posts. what files do I upload?
Where can I see a demo of 6.03 with no hacks?

Thanks

#79602 04/14/2002 12:47 PM
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Just realized that you're asking about 6.30 rather than 6.03. That threw me for a loop for a bit.. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

OK..

Unfortunately, Infopop doesn't have any 6.3.0beta demo boards running. However, any of the private beta testers will be running unhacked boards. So you can try:
http://flare.solareclipse.net/ (Charles Capps)
http://forums.3drealms.com/ (Joe Siegler)
(Both have redirects to the actual ultimatebb.cgi page).

Files to upload: basically all the cgi-bin and noncgi folders.

However, which hacks are you running on 6.1? If any of them added profile fields, you need to be careful and ensure they don't overlap the UBB's new fields. (We're using many more fields than we were in 6.1)

There are several ways to determine if that's a problem:
-Examine the hack
-Contact the hack's author
-Post at UBBDev
-Worst case scenario: let us know here which hacks you've got installed and we'll see if we can help (we *don't* support hacked boards but we'll do what we can do)

If you do have extra fields, you may have to obtain a utility from UBBDev to remove those fields from all profile files, before upgrading.

Anyway, that should give you a bit to think about. Let us know how things go and we can proceed from there.

Graeme
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#79603 04/14/2002 2:10 PM
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I dont think any hacks are going to be a problem LIST Includes
whos online
chat mod
avatars hack
I have removed most of the hacks on my board
I also use some style sheets
but think Im safe?
Obviously two of the above hacks will not need to be replaced..

#79604 04/14/2002 3:07 PM
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spd2612:

You can also use a utility called Beyond Compare to make sure that you've got all the hack lines out of there. BC is free to evaluate for 30 days.

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#79605 04/14/2002 5:31 PM
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I'm pretty sure the Avatars Mod adds data to the profile. You should really check with the author to be sure. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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#79606 04/14/2002 8:03 PM
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One thing I didn't mention though I should have.

You can be absolutely sure using the following method.

Open up ubb_lib_files.cgi and scroll down to approximately line 825. You're looking for a line starting with:
$maxmemfields =

If the number on that line is 31, you're safe. Anything else and you will likely have trouble.

Graeme
PS Does anyone have the member field stripper URL handy? Dave: something we should have at UBBCentral perhaps?

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#79607 04/15/2002 1:22 AM
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Originally posted by Graeme:
PS Does anyone have the member field stripper URL handy? Dave: something we should have at UBBCentral perhaps?
That's where they are. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

https://www.ubbcentral.com/downloads/

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#79608 04/15/2002 8:38 PM
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Originally posted by spd2612:

Where can I see a demo of 6.03 with no hacks?

Thanks
In addition to the couple of sites Graeme mentioned above, I've got the 6.3 beta running on one of my sites: http://www.moswc.com Feel free to check it out. I do have the following features turned on:

Avatars
Recent Visitors
Polls
PHP Accelerator

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