Forum Upgrade #5

Due to a couple of mistakes I made on upgrade attempt #4 I'm going to do it again when I return in a couple of weeks.

Due to the Critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities—known as php2shell— the forum must be upgraded ASAP.
I have taken precautions to minimize the chance here but the forum must be upgraded ASAP.

The second issue we have is space, with 11-12 year old out of date posts taking up a substantial amount of disk space I must purge enough posts and attachments to allow a backup to function. I will be more careful this time and only delete one year at a time until there is enough space for a backup. It's bad to have out of date information that new users find with search engines and get into trouble using information from very old versions of EMC.

Some history of the forum, Alex Joni created the forum in 2006 but the developers didn't want a forum. In 2008 I finally convinced the developers to allow the forum. So this is why we have a forum today.

I will outline the upgrade strategy later in this thread.

JT