On 18 Oct 2023, Mike Dippel said the following...
 
 MD> I am running version 47.  I want to upgrade, but I am afraid of screwing
 MD> things up and 
 MD> losing everything.

in my case A48's daily message database maintenance messed up user message pointers..every day your QWK packet would have a huge portion of old messages in it..

i'm not sure messing with it is worth it just to speed up a process you might do once a year

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)