Elliot Marx

@Randy CalvertI'm using PHP Version 8.0.19. That should not be the problem. And for #2 I have no clue how to do what you're saying there.
@Marc Stridgen Yes I'm still having issues. I also got the admin login wrong so got locked out from the upgrading process for 14 minutes. But I managed to update my access details for FTP so let's get started there ASAP please.
Now when I try to recover my password I get the following error:
An error occurred (500 Error)
We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now.

Error writing file '/tmp/MY12Y0t4' (Errcode: 28 - No space left on device)

You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later.

I've started a fresh installation and this is the error I get:
An error occurred (500 Error)
We're sorry, but a temporary technical error has occurred which means we cannot display this site right now.

You can try again by clicking the button below, or try again later.

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Hello Randy,
Thanks for explaining but then that means the "Post before register" function is useless for my forum. It just makes things so difficult for people who want to interact with me that most won't even bother and will just go straight to social media like Facebook and Instagram or email / call us directly to interact. The issue is social media posts and threads are all "here today gone tomorrow" blog style posts, and email / phone calls are all 1-1 communication only so I need to recommunicate and repost this info. I want to pull customer interactions over to our own forum so I can pin Q&A style interactions and easily reference them from our main website. The product I'm trying to sell is already difficult and complex, so this style of interaction will allow customers in the know to help customers who are struggling, and sometimes even present us with useful tips we can easily share with others.
For me a more useful guest function is "Let the admin know I want to post this" along with the contents of the actual post. Then I could log into control panel, see a notification at the top when this is happening, and reject or approve the posts one at a time.
Please do something about this. I'm getting weary of not being able to get good use of a true "forum" for over a decade. The forum still just functions for me mostly as a basic non-interactive website.

Yes I have post before registering set. In order for this to really work, I'll need to get email notification or I'll have no idea if someone is trying to post. Is this possible to set up?
Elliot

Yes I believe for sure it is stopping some posts but it is a real nuisance. I can only try to do a better job at getting people approved more quickly to post. The email verification for sure weeds out spammers much better than before.
Elliot

Well thanks for your attention. At least I've learned a whole lot about maintaining databases in the process 🙂

As mentioned, if you go to your storage settings, then edit your storage configuration, you can change the path there. If you are then still having issues, please update the access details on file and I'll take a look for you.

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!
 
 

Broken how?
 
Are you sure that you have overwritten your forum files correctly? To me this looks like a case of files not being uploaded in the right location.
There is no need for a fresh install imo. When you run the installer you are presented with an option to enter the prefix. It looks like you did not enter one, hence why there were no prefixes added to the database.
That being said, it looks like you have several tables in that database. You should check the sql_tbl_prefix vale at conf_global.php file. That holds the prefix for your Ipb forum. The tables prefecased with that prefix are the one that you need. Hope it helps.