Upgrade from 2.0 RC3 to 2.0 RC5 gone wrong

[ScottyTooHotty]

So I decided to do an upgrade on my forum from 2.0 RC3 to 2.0 RC5 and it didn't work, so I then decided to do a fresh install instead. Again this didn't work. So I decided to restore my back up and now this won't work! Now I'm not a wiz at this kind of stuff as it is so I have no idea what I did wrong but basically, I've lost my whole forum and need to do a fresh install or 2.0 RC5 but have it link into my already exsisting database. Is this possible? And how would I go about doing it?? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

[Average Mom]

Do a fresh install, then use the info from your previous Settings.php to connect your database to your fresh install.  Maybe there are other ways of doing it, but that's what I did and it worked. Although if you had a different theme installed, it might look odd until you go in your admin panel and change your theme to the default theme. Hope that helps.

Just a note... if you need help, you probably want to describe your problem a bit more than "it didn't work" because we don't know what issue you're having.

[Illori]

also be sure to run upgrade.php or you will run into further issues as the database will not match the files you are using.

[ScottyTooHotty]

Sorry, like I said, i'm not too good at this sort of stuff which is why I can't tell you anymore as to why it didn't work. I thought I'd followed all the steps correctly but I guess I missed something out.

So I guess I need to do a fresh install again now, I assume I leave out the Install.* and *.sql files, is that right? And would I then run the upgrade on top of the fresh install?

I already ran upgrade.php and everything seemed to go through fine so would this mean my database is already upgraded or will I need to run it again. And would it cause problems if I ran it again anyway?

Do you know which part of Settings.php I would need to change? Do I just copy everything from the original Settings.php into the new one?

Sorry for all the questions. I'm just at a bit of a loose end as my site's been down all weekend now and I desperately need to fix it.

Thanks for all your help

[Illori]

what are you seeing that leads you to believe that it did not work?

[cicka]

Can you please tell us what exactly did not work when you tried to upgrade your forum and when you tried to restore the database?