Our club migrated from 3.0 to 4.0. The file transfer (human to human) was pretty painful. Then, for me as the developing there was the learning curve of aMember. I am a fan of the software and still learning things. Just an FYI, we are integrated with BuddyPress/Wordpress and YES I have read the notes ad infinitum. Here is my issue and question. Once I successfully got everything moved over and I successfully modified the CSS to work with my theme, the database link crashed and I kept getting an error message. In efforts to expedite things, I basically complete removed the amember folder and did a fresh install but with the same config.php credentials. THEN, I dragged over the CSS folder and updated the theme. We stayed stable for about 45 days and then I was notified the DB had crashed and I was getting the same Wordpress error message. So, I downloaded the most current version, did a fresh install and updated the CSS. PIA at 3am but willing to do that for my customers. I then realized there were many things in the admin panel that did not carry over and I need to update them. This past weekend the Treasurer of our group wanted to do a report and none of the custom fields were available. I thought by chance I had created the fields in an incorrect fashion but now realized that anytime I were to a fresh install, I need to know which files or this folder I can use as a backup so I do not have to manually re-create all these custom fields again. For example, to re-instate my CSS, I just upload my backup folder /public to application/default/views/public and I am back in business. I am thinking there is a similar folder I can re-instate for my existing admin panels settings without disrupting any upgrades. Has anyone been down this road before?