Question Downgrade

You're very lucky you got off as easily as you did.

Your original question was "Is there a rollback procedure - or 'downgrade' as you called it - to undo a flaky Kunena 1.5.0a upgrade?" The answer is no.

We've helped you patch up your Joomla website and you've got things working again. I wouldn't push your luck too much further if I were in your shoes.

Lol, I would never push my luck. Thanks a LOT it's working perfectly!

Turbo123 wrote:

AWESOME i read everything you wrote and you were right the jos_ tables were not all gone. So what i did is reupload the backed up SQL DB files and then installed the new Kunena 0.9. I was able to keep all my posts and topics! YAAAY!!!!

1 thing though,

My Kunena admin panel says this

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Installed version: Kunena 1.0.5RC2 | 2008-10-27 | 817 [ Redwood ] | Copyright: © 2008-2009 Kunena | License: GNU GPL

and my uninstall version is

Kunena Enabled 1.0.9 2009-04-03 www.Kunena.com

I am stumped on why there are 2 different versions.

Thanks!

This would suggest that the upgrade did not complete successfully. Did you get a successful message at the very end of the install/upgrade (downgrade)? And a 'Click here' to continue message from Joomla or was it just a white screen?

I uninstalled Kunena 1.08 -
installed Kunena 1.09 -
crashed the whole website, complete desaster -
PANIC -
uninstalled Kunena 1.09 -
re-installed Kunena 1.08 -
everything works again, thank God.
So I can say downgrading this way works perfectly.
I guess I stay with the 1.08 version, never experienced any problem with it.

Downgrading works currently for all Kunena versions, but this can change in the future. Configuration may need some adjustments, but otherwise there should be no problems.

So you can downgrade from K1.5.0 to K1.0.9 and from K1.0.9 to K1.0.8, at least in most of the cases. I would still taken that backup, but..