When you access the table, looking at your indexes, you see the red X's?  Click on the red X under the Action column in the row where uid is...

For the first error, delete the second listing.  It should just be a Primary index listed on there.  Then you should be fine. For the second...

I looked at the upgrade script and this numstories field is added during the optimize.  The thing is when you did the manual and followed my sugg...

It's sounds like a permissions problem..since something isn't 'writing'.  If I'm understanding right, they're tryin...

You got that error because that table was already altered when you selected step 19 be done automatically until you got that first error with dropping...

Glad I could help out.I wish I had other ideas on the _stats problem, but I don't.  😕 

Ahh I see.  Well that would simple things up I think.  You'd still would prolly have to add a field to the stories table so the informa...

Most welcome  :-)If these suggestions don't work, post a new thread for each problem if a search doesn't help you out.  1.  Y...

It looks like an ALTER statement in the upgrade script isn't in the optimize.sqlTry running this statement and see if that doesn't make it h...

I think you'd have to at least have a field in the stories table so that the beta reader(s) for the story would be saved and pulled for display. ...

Not a problem. Question: are you trying the solutions, and then going through the install from that point onward?I ask because you're getting tha...

I wasn't sure if having a period in the prefix would make mySQL cranky..now I know for future reference /doh!  :lol:Just breathe.  It&#...

Your first error is because the table the upgrade script is trying to create already exists.  You're probably going to have to install the ...

For your second issue, do you have debug turned on?  Pretty sure you see that in the browser title when you have debug on.