overwrote something

[alieninthestreet]

Hi. I hope this is the right place for this.

I have a board at http://www.silverroad.org/forum/

My host just updated their systems or whatever it is they do, and they shortened my username. So, thinking it would fix it, I tried to install it again, but instead of fixing the settings, it now shows a blank form.

I went into my databases and the old info is still there, I just need to rescue it. I have no idea how. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

bob

[[Unknown]]

Check your database name and prefix.  Make sure they are the same as your old ones.

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[alieninthestreet]

The prefix is now different, because it's my username and they changed my username, but the data is still in the tables.

I put the new prefix into the installer, but now I'm getting a blank board, as if I had just installed it, which I guess I technically have.

I was wondering if there's a way to just start over, but to import the data from the tables or to incorporate those data tables into a new forum structure. I hope I'm not talking out of my ass.

Thanks

[[Unknown]]

If you can access your old data in phpMyAdmin, you can use that database/prefix.  If you do so, everything should go back to normal.

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[alieninthestreet]

So that's just using the installer as if I were installing it for the first time?

[[Unknown]]

No.  Do it in Forum Preferences and Settings.

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[alieninthestreet]

Thanks a lot for your help!