Move usergroups/forums/permission to another forum.

[_Fatal]

I did a fresh install of Vb. 3.5.4. I backed up seperate tables from my old forums, (Forum permission, Forum, access, forum setup) I'm hoping I got the right backups for my usergroups and the permissions from them. How do I use these back up files for my new forums? also, what tbales, should I have backed up to do this? I dind't list all the backed up ones. I'm hoping to have all my forums and sub forums back up by doing this and the usergroups and their permissions.

[MThornback]

Normally, if you go into your phpmyadmin you can do whats called an SQL dump to add the information into the tables....but....(there is always a but :p) the problem with having done a fresh install, is that all the modifications that the upgrade scripts do to the tables aren't going to be applied to your backups by doing a dump...so 9 out of 10 times, you'll get SQL errors about counts or unknown columns etc....

Your best bet as much as you don't want to hear this....is probably to re-run your install from whatever version you WERE running...and rather than doing a fresh install (which truncates all your tables) click the upgrade link above it (you can't miss it....its in big letters) and run through the steps to update your tables and the rows in them to the current release version

Someone might beable to tell you an alternative to cut down how much time it takes you....personally, i'd rather do it the long way cause then I know I won't run into hiccups. Thats a matter of preference more than anything

Hope it helps!

[MThornback]

sorry for the double...I forgot about the second part of your question...but it seemed a better idea to seperate...

you'll definatly need:

user
usergroup
userfield
usertitle

administrator
access
session

I almost definatly missed a few...again, someone else more qualified will be able to give you more to work with