Hi, I have a problem: I started out with a 6.3 version system, and attempted an upgrade to Debian's unstable release (maybe version 7.?), which unfortunately appeared to have failed the dump/import to the new database format. Realizing this was probably not what I wanted in the first place I tried to go back to what I had originally but of course this is not straight forward. Unfortunately all I had backed up were files from the data/base/template1 directory downwards which means I have the raw table data but none of the important files/information from the data/ directory. I can do a fresh install, recreate the tables, copy the old template1 directory over the new but all queries return empty (no) rows. Any ideas on how I can use the original table files to regain my data? Thanks in advance, Mark. p.s. Please respond to this email address. -- ,-_|\ / . \ Mark Lawrence \_,-._/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] v ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly