Forum Upgrade test
 

I've looked for an answer to this but cannot find one.

I've created a complete test forum with a test copy of the current database for my upgrade from vb3 to vb4 so that I can recreate my styles at my leisure.

Obviously the test database will become out of date. So my plan had been to check everything out on the test forum, redo my styles etc. and when I was happy to simply change the name of the test forum to 'forum' and then change the config to point to the current database name.

However, after the test upgrade the admin panel shows that I should rebuild things such as forum information and thread information etc. If I do that on the test forum/test database will I get errors if I go with my plan to simply change the config to point to the current database when I am ready (as these threads will not have been rebuilt)

Should I wait to rebuild the thread information etc. and do it only when I am about ready to launch the new version?

Or is my plan flawed anyway and won't work?

Hope that all makes sense!

Thanks for any help/advice. :)