The title says it all, I completely misunderstood this portion of the 4.0 upgrades and now our entire community shows emails as default display names, is there anyway to do a global change to show the old display names instead of emails?

Thanks for any help.

Restore a database backup and upgrade again. The upgrader meant what it said, that data is gone. Reconstructing it with the 4.x database is literally not possible, unfortunately.

Edited June 26, 201510 yr by Marcher Technologies

The display names are still there though Marcher, they show in the Display Name field for each member, I am confused.

Hello John, If you're using cpanel or have manual back-ups you should be able to pull a version from right before your upgrade that changed everything and be good to go Sir. You should of done a back-up before your upgrade also. Good practice to do this if you don't have server/cpanel back-ups. Your host may be able to help you pull a back-up too. I would contact them if you have one and see if they can bring your site back from a certain date. A date from before your last upgrade that changed what you didn't want.

Edited June 26, 201510 yr by DesignzShop

Thank you for the feedback. I did perform a back up fortunately, unfortunately there is already a significant amount of topics that have posted since the upgrade 3 days ago, I'll lose those, but then I guess it's time to decide what is important here isn't it! Display names or keep new content? Hmmm.

Thanks again for the feedback, looks like I have a decision to make here.
 

Thank you for the feedback. I did perform a back up fortunately, unfortunately there is already a significant amount of topics that have posted since the upgrade 3 days ago, I'll lose those, but then I guess it's time to decide what is important here isn't it! Display names or keep new content? Hmmm.

Thanks again for the feedback, looks like I have a decision to make here.
 

In the end John they'll understand. Been there before myself over different situations in time...

They get over a few posts. Some however may not like emails being displayed and could be a long standing request to change. Eventually you may end up doing it and losing more information.

Regards

Edited June 26, 201510 yr by DesignzShop

Thanks Designz, I believe you are right, this needs to be undone. Thanks!