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KeeKee · Mar 20, 2006

is the em includes folder a part of phpbb or is it easy mod?

I have to re-install em to hobbies, kitchen and pets but don't know for sure what all to take out to clean everything up first.

Nightrider · 0.1.13

Yes, em_includes is part of Easymod. But you don't have to remove EM before you can reinstall it. If you still have a working copy of EM on your board, just go into EM Settings and decrease the EM version number to anything less than 0.3.0; i.e. 0.2.9, 0.2.1, or 0.1.13 will all work...

If you don't have a running copy of EM, then you will have to choose one of these options...

EM Version Change

If you already had EM 0.3.0 installed, then you will need to change the EM Version back so that the install will think that this is an Upgrade. You can use this tool to change your EM Version so that you can reinstall EM on your board:

EM_Version_Changer

Once the EM Version Changer is installed, set the EM version to 0.1.13 or 0.2.0...

EM Version Change (Manual Option)

If you want to manually change the EM version, you can do so in your phpbb_config table. Just look for the record beginning with EM_version. Then you can change the related field to 0.1.13. You could also delete all the records in the phpbb_config table that begin with EM_ and delete the phpbb_easymod table too to have the new install recreate everything...

phpMyAdmin - Manually Changing the EM Version Number

The following is how you manually modify your EM password using phpMyAdmin. You can get into your database through your CPanel by clicking on phpMyAdmin. Follow the following instructions:

I'm sure that every host is different. I will tell you how I run my queries manually and hopefully it will be close to what you have available to you. The following may or may not be similar to what you have...

Log into your domain Control Panel and find the database icons. You should be able to find the phpMyAdmin icon. Click on it...

Hopefully that will log you into your phpAdmin panel. You may need to provide a username and password...

In the phpMyAdmin panel, click on the Databases hyperlink...

Hopefully that should take you where you can select your database. You may only have one. Select your database hyperlink...

That should open up the display of all the tables in your database. Ignore them. Somewhere on the page, you should see something similar to this:

Click on the phpbb_config table in the Left column navigation bar:

Then on the top left of the right window, click on the Browse button:

Then to display all the records, change the row settings to 500 starting with record 0, then press the Show button:

Scroll down to the EM version field, then click on the little pencil icon next to the record to edit it:

Enter the following into the config_value Value editbox. Any version less than your current version will work...

KeeKee · Mar 20, 2006

Thanks I printed that out and put it in the hardcopy book. Now I'll save teh page. It explained some of what I was seeing in the database but of course didn't know what to do with anything I was looking at.
If I had known this and some about config.php I probably wouldn't be starting over.
It's not like I messed up with a bunch of people but I was finally getting enough on the boards to make them look used at least.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

Yeah, unfortunately I've seen a lot of people start over when it wasn't necessary. Many times the fix to the problem is simple, but some admins just don't know how to fix the problem, so they start over. There is a guy in Area 51 who has probably started over more than 50 times already. He is never going to make any progress at that rate...

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KeeKee · Mar 20, 2006

Oh Lordy that is way too many times I would I think would have figured out what was being done wrong way sooner than that.
hummmmmm or figured I can't get this, forget it LOL

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

I totally agree. Every time he makes a mistake, he starts over. Hopefully eventually he will get it...

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