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Hi there. I want to sell one of my forums so I need to send the guy the database. Can you tell me how to do it ? I need to save the database (template, members, forums, posts).

Can you help me ?
Admin CP > Tools and Maintenance > Database Backups. Select all the tables listed for your forum and then select the Plain Text option (.sql file) and then download the backup. This will backup your database in a .sql file. To double check you did it correctly, open the file in Wordpad and make sure it contains data. Smile
As a double double check, make a test forum with your files, upload the backup to a database associated with that new forum, and check it's all there.
Ok, Done that. I received a file that is full of code that I cannot understand Big Grin
Well, if you upload it to a test forum, you can make sure it's there.