They only provide daily "File" backup, not Database. If you want a database recovery they charge, last time it was over £60 and all they did was leave a zip file on the server. I then had to restore myself, I've never done that before. I tried it through cpanel, but it complained it was too large and needed to be done from a shell. I'd no idea how to do this so asked them to do it, again another charge.

They also screwed me on my package, told me I had 500GB of storage which I do, I've used 52GB of it, so you would think I have loads of room for growth. No, they have a number of files limit 262,000 to be precise. My site is an electronics technical site, we provide data and help with vintage repairs. As a result, I've used 192,500 of that file allocation, so my storage shows up at almost 75% used, even though I have 500GB. I complained, and they said nothing I can do as I'm on their top shared hosting package and the next step is dedicated server, which I cannot afford as I would need a managed solution with a dedicated server. I would move hosts, but all that entails scares me to death, so I soldier on with the abusers.

I could go on, and on, with horror stories. Although based in Europe the support is offshore.

p.s.

you mentioned putting my forum offline, how and where, is that a setting new to V2 as it wasn't in V1.

I have restored customer's backup after a fail so many times, takes me 5-10 minutes. On a 10$ per month plan, a cheap one that is.

However, fate has been kind, today, the gods were on my side. Thanks due to the helpful folk here calming my panic, and ultimately the quality of the wpforo software which seems to have handled the upgrade perfectly fine, and I seem to have zero bugs.

Wpforo developers and community testers, thank you, for without all your hard work, I doubt it would have been so pain free.

I'm off to lie down in a dark, cool room with a beer,

Is it all compatible with V2?

Yes, everything works also with wpforo V2

By the way, I lost my wise chat at the top of the forum that you helped me with last week. Can I use all the code you gave me that I added to the old version, so it will appear again? Is it all compatible with V2?

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Any idea about this too, all have zero topics counted when in fact they have many.

Please delete all your addons, they are old and cannot work with wpForo 2.0 and install new 3.0.x versions of addons. If the licenses are not expired, you can find them in your account page at gVecotrs.com. Just download them and install manually as it's explained here: https://gvectors.com/forum/postid/33094/

Once you installed the new version of wpForo Advanced Attachments addon all attachments will be there again.

What do I do about the add-ons? None of my attachments are showing as advanced attachments is deactivated, as are all the others. Do I just delete them, buy the new version and install, then activate?