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brandon420:
I screwed up my install, i think with the file permissions or something... Anyways, i am needing to take only my post, and boards from the old forum to the new one.
So, I am wanting a bran-new forum-clean slate- default settings
The only thing that I am wanting to keep is my post/users/boards
Can this be done?


I have tried to install smf fresh, and import the database. But once I import the database all the bugs that I have reappear.
So guessing I am going to need to edit the database to either
A- change the settings part to default
B- take post/users/boards from the database and add them to a new one.

Can anyone help me out? I have almost no knowledge of editing databases.
I am pretty good with linux. Mysql is what gets me.

Any help/food for thought would be appreciated.

-brandon

Kays:
Hi, welcome to SMF. :)

The thing is that the users, posts, topics and boards and all interconnected and all should be restored or you could end up with more problems than you originally had.

So before you go there, what sort of problems were you experiencing? ???

brandon420:
Thanks for welcoming me. I have tried to stay away from here, cause i know you guys have to get a lot of stupid questions, but I have to result to asking you a few more.  Lol



The text box keeps going on... And only does it once I restore the old database.




Images on the site are "missing" (but they are in the correct folder)

The package manager isn't there? Where I would normally go to upload the .zip of the package i wanted to install is missing.

Dreamportal doesn't install right, post take a couple of minutes before they show up on the main forum. Just general glitches.

With all of this being said, I have setup and ran multiple SMF based forums. Idk what happened, but this one is messed up for some reason.

And for the love of god, please tell me that this captcha goes away after a certain amount of post?

Kays:
Well, that's what we're here for. :)

For a start, do you have all of these problems with the default theme?

The stretched texarea I think that's browser dependent. But something to try, in GenericControls.template.php in the default theme look for:


--- Code: --- <textarea class="editor" name="', $editor_id, '" id="', $editor_id, '" rows="', $editor_context['rows'], '" cols="600" onselect="storeCaret(this);" onclick="storeCaret(this);" onkeyup="storeCaret(this);" onchange="storeCaret(this);" tabindex="', $context['tabindex']++, '" style="height: ', $editor_context['height'], '; ', isset($context['post_error']['no_message']) || isset($context['post_error']['long_message']) ? 'border: 1px solid red;' : '', '">', $editor_context['value'], '';

--- End code ---

And change the 600 to something like 80.

For the image problem, Are all images not showing or just some. Have you checked the paths in the Admin CP > Current theme?

How did you install Dream portal if the package manger is broken? ???

brandon420:



That's the result of me changing the theme, to either "core" or "Curve". When I changed them, I changed the default, and also reset the forum to the new theme.

Text area - Check. I had no idea where to find the correct file to edit. I set it to 120, looks alright (atleast on my screen. Feel sorry for mobile users, lol.)


As for dreamportal, my package manager was working before I restored my backup, and then everything goes to ******. Also, on the first install of this forum, the package manager was working, but dreamportal was buggy. Think that was probably my doing.

I have check all the paths, and they are correct. I am even using the ip for now, just to make sure it wasn't in my domain settings...

Thanks for the fast replies. This was starting to get to me. lol.

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