[@bbrian Participant 5 years, 11 months ago]

A comment in another thread says the white screen problem is from a time out, and when you run it again it continues where it left off 🙂

The uploads that aren’t imported are going to be lots of broken links on your forum!

[@bbrian Participant 5 years, 11 months ago]

When you stop and start it should continue from where it was before. This is part of the standard bbPress importer setup. Unless you choose: “Start Over: Restart the converter from the beginning (This forces all steps back to 0. Avoid duplicate data by purging or resetting first.)” on the Import Forums screen. As it suggests, under the Reset Forums tab you can delete all existing forums, topics and posts. Unfortunately, my plugin doesn’t delete the Redirection plugin settings or the images it imports (although it may be possible to hook into the forum reset code and achieve that).

You will have to start the import again to import the images and attachments. The converter scans each post as it’s importing for local links and then retrieves the files from the uploads folder. Some are direct links, some are links via Invision’s ~attachment.php?id=123 which need to query the database to find the true file path, and some are older style Invision v3 attachments.

As you see, the converter just creates its own forums and ignores what’s there, so just delete them.

I don’t think there’s any need, unless something goes wrong, to give me any access. I suggest doing a feature comparison between Invision and bbPress and see what plugins you’re going to need to retain tools you were using in Invision. If they match what I know I need, I’ll work on converting the appropriate data for both of us.

[@bbrian Participant 5 years, 11 months ago]

The forums should import ok, just without the proper title and description, and you’ll be able to see them at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum. When mine import, one parent forum with no posts contains our 13 actual forums.

The upload folder is for copying across the images, emoticons, and attachments users have added to their posts on Invision 4 forum. If your Invision 4 forum is still live (which it probably is), the URL of your forum with /uploads added should work fine. If you set $ipb_uploads_url to null the forums themselves should import no problem, but without media.

The table prefix is dependent on how your Invision database was set up initially. Typically, if it’s the only application using the database, there’s no need for a prefix, but if multiple applications (e.g. WordPress and Invision) share a database it’s prudent to set a prefix on the database table names so you can be confident both applications won’t try to use the same table name (e.g. “users”), and it’s essential if multiple instances of the same application share the same database (e.g. two independent WordPress installations).

The forums->topics->replies associations all work correctly for me. Are you saying that your replies have imported but aren’t associated correctly with their topics? This isn’t something that needs the importer to complete to verify is working. Although, the topics might show how many replies are part of the topic before the replies themselves have been imported. My import takes a few hours to complete.

Let me know how you get on. I’ve still to do more work on this myself before I finally migrate our forums so now is a good time for feedback and suggestions.