1st of all I tried to upgrade two days ago. I followed the directions setforth in the install guide for upgrading. This didn't work at all which was very disappointing mainly because I thought the new features were going to be great.

Well anyway, I did a full backup of ALL the files so when the install didn't work I reverted back to those files. Well it got 99% of the way through copying the files back and it stopped suddenly because it said I didn't have "permission" to move or copy a specific file.

So I had to got to CrystalTechs website and PAY $10 for files I already had that were on a backup to get them to my main directory. Now the site still doesn't work. What is the point of doing a backup, then paying for one, when it doesn't even work????? I get a message that says " A critical error has occured. Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when I try to log in as host, admin, or any other login member. Furthermore, I can't even register a new account as I thought that might be a problem.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I would really have liked to upgraded but I guess I'm going to be luck if my older version even works?!?

Michael DeBaise

Fire Fighter, Secretary & Webmaster

Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department

www.hamiltonfire.org

I can understand what you are saying about access, but I do have full access, it's just the files were not copying as if another file was preventig it from doing so.

As far as the DB, yeah that makes sense now, but it wasn't in the upgrade instructions. I made all the changes over top of the same DB I guess mainloy because I didn't know any better. I did get some error messages when I initially did the install where there were two errors that occured. I looked through the forums for a fix, called tech support and they advised I got back to my originial version, but that didn't work at all. I'm sure there are things that are bound to go wrong during an install/upgrade, because you can see all the post with problems people have but what now? Is there anyway to rever the DB? CrystalTech allows me to get full control of everything and I can look at the DB "connections" and it actually shows the upgrade I tried to do the other day, should I delete that? I'm just not sure what to do now... and wish I could upgrade to the newest 3.3.5 version but it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to do anything but totally start over again. Thanks for your post...