[John_D.]

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Thanks for all your work on getting it back!

[trackbird]

Thanks Guys! Sorry about that.

I sent this reply to a few (who e-mailed me) to explain.

I'm going to copy and paste this into the next 15 e-mails, so it's not specific to anyone (sorry), but here's the scoop.

At about 11:30 am EST on Sunday, we started the upgrade process specified by Invision to move us to the latest software. The upgrade installed and ran the update script (which was supposed to convert the database to the new version) and it trashed the database on the server. Not to worry, we have full backups (multiple in several locations that were pulled right before the upgrade started so nothing was lost), but we have to upload them to the server again and my hosting company has limited the script time to 300 seconds per script (and it takes far longer than 300 seconds to update a 90 meg database), so we've broken it down into sections (93 of them to be exact) and are uploading each of them, one at a time, until done. The issue is, each one takes just about 5 minutes to execute. So, I started on this at 7pm (EST) last night and ran updates/installs until 2 am. The person assisting me (no names, blame me, not him) has been running updates since early this morning and we are up to file 65 out of 93. I hope to have the board back up and on line later this evening.

Unfortunately, since the upgrade wouldn't process, we are restoring the board to the "old" version (exactly as it was) until we can work with invision to correct this problem (with the update script).

Sorry for the downtime, I was hoping to unveil a new version of the board for everyone today (new as in updated, not really changed), but things don't always work out as planned.

Thanks guys, I'm working on it.

Kevin / trackbird (your humble admin)

Obviously this part is no longer correct.

we are up to file 65 out of 93. I hope to have the board back up and on line later this evening.

Sorry for the down time, sometimes things just don't go as planned. We'll work out the details and hope to get the new version working in the future, but I have no timeline for that upgrade at this time.

Thanks and my apologies for the downtime.

Kevin