Hi Annette!

The TOCs: checked several TOCs (2014 and 2003) and didn't find any with the "ultimateubb.php get_topic" format that worked. Four years back might already have had the new format. The switch was at the start of May 2014:

One of the last TOC with the old format: http://www.lcficmbs.com/ubb/ubbthre...wer-by-lady-loisette-complete#Post172857

One of the first TOC with the new format: http://www.lcficmbs.com/ubb/ubbthre...-on-the-way-cristina-complete#Post253595

I skimmed the support post and I'm not 100% convinced and/or didn't catch all the intricacies. Of course, not seeing the source code and not having a test system makes it more difficult to evaluate all the information presented by the support guy. My spidysense does tell me, that the ultimateubb.php file should be able to handle all the old URLs so long as all pertinent information is still there in the URL and the database. The rest is just a matter of mapping the data. So, possibly the file provided by UBB isn't sophisticated enough to do all the heavy lifting. And this is where we circle back to the beginning of the paragraph.

So to go back to the earlier questions: do you have SQL access to the database and copy/save the result to a CSV file? That way, we can (hopefully) extract the mapping between posts and threads and use that to rebuild the correct links. Given I'm not a PHP guy (C# /.NET for the win!) and don't want to mess with the system details of the compatibility file, doing this via the web UI feels like the much safer approach.

One last bit: maybe switching the search_friendly to 0 might do the trick, given the TOC links are all in the not-search-friendly format.

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