Title: Lost forms
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Lost forms

 *  Resolved [Liz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liz-payton/)
 * (@liz-payton)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-forms/)
 * Thanks so much for keeping cforms going. The new version works perfectly. At 
   least it did on a test site that I had set up yesterday 🙂 However, on my main
   site, I have somehow lost all of my forms when I did the upgrade. I’m sure I 
   did something wrong, but I don’t know what. Can you help me figure out how to
   find my forms? They represent a lot of work on my part over the past 5 years.
 * I saw that this issue has been addressed recently but I don’t know sql.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cforms2/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cforms2/)

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 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-forms/#post-6472317)
 * Do you have any backup?
 *  Thread Starter [Liz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liz-payton/)
 * (@liz-payton)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-forms/#post-6472318)
 * Thanks for responding! I didn’t have any backup but my webhost did so I have 
   recovered my forms. I really do appreciate the upgraded version. It would be 
   more helpful if the installation instructions were a little more step-by-step
   on how to backup the forms before proceeding, and a description of the dire consequences
   of not following those steps 🙂 For example, it wasn’t clear to me that the form
   data was stored in the WP database and not in the cforms directory.
 * Otherwise, it is much appreciated.
 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-forms/#post-6472320)
 * Okay maybe I will explicitly state where the form data is stored. Thanks for 
   pointing it out.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-forms/#post-6472320)
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