Forum Upgrading Hacked 3.6 to Latest release
 

Hello everyone,

I apologise if this has been asked before, actually I am sure it has, but...

I have 3.6 installed and it has quite a few hacks installed, to numerous to count actually.

and sadly I have been away from the site for years, but, I am now going to be getting back into it

I plan on upgrading to the latest version, and I think for ease of transfer it'd be best to wipe out the 3.6 files completely and do a fresh install, but, I would like to keep the forum structure and posts in them intact.

Once done, i'll install newer versions f the hacks I want

So, onto the questions.
1) I know from past upgrades that impex has worked, has anyone been successful from 3.6 to the latest version?
2) a) Would it be better to do a fresh database and import the old one, or
b) just leave the database and install into it.

If I do 2b, how do you clean out the hacks from the database other than the uninstalls and would that work?

I'm leaning toward a clean database and impex, I just want some of your thoughts as I would hate to loose all that data?