Elliot Marx

Hello Miss_B Yes the final suggestion worked! Once I fixed the table prefix to the one that I had before "_ibf" and used the fresh installation, everything just worked. Thank you for your help!

Jim M - please see the below topic. CHMOD is fine. My aggravations are far from over. High five only once this nightmare is fixed.

I moved my forum over to another web host. Forum is version 4.6.11. The forum itself works. Now I have several major problems: 1) The admin control panel is broken, so I'm trying to do an upgrade...With a broken control panel I have no idea how to modify the security settings and I'm getting random spam posts now that I have to prune manually directly from the "ibf_forums_posts" database 2) When I try to do an upgrade from 4.6.11 to 4.6.12.1, the admin control panel is looking for an "uploads" folder that was on some hidden directory on the old web host. I have no access to this folder because it exists on the previous web host only. I have no way of creating the folder on my new web host. 3) I had no issues doing a fresh install of 4.6.12.1, but this install just ignored all of my old database files with prefixes "ibf", "orig_ibf", and "x_utf_ibf" and created its own blank databases with "calendar" and "core" prefixes. Is it possible to either 1) Fix the upgrade process so that it will no longer search for files in some hidden directory that no longer exists, or 2) Manually copy the basics (forums, topics, and users) from the old database to the new This whole thing is becoming a nightmare. I've spent two days trying to get things working and now I'm totally stuck. Can anyone help???

I am trying to figure out my way around this error. Apparently when I try to upgrade, the upgrade process is looking for some hidden database directory that doesn't exist to do file uploads. Is there any way around this? Otherwise I am stuck on the same Invisionboard version

I tried to port over my forum and finally got it working but the "admin" folder is broken. I get this error message when I go to the admin folder: An error occurred (500 Error) We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now. CANNOT_MAKE_DIR You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later. Try again Any thoughts of how to fix this?