gavintyte (@gavintyte)

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  • In reply to: Import Hung?

    gavintyte
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    @gavintyte

    What’s the best way to do this over without losing the imported content and without taking risks of missing content not being imported initially on the hang up?

    Make sure you back up both your WordPress and vBulletin databases – and try the import on a local server using something like MAMP.

    It took a pretty long time just to do the topics. It didn’t start the users yet either. You’d think it would import users first?

    It takes a long time. My vBulletin import took 17 hours last time I tried it! Biggish database tho.

    The order should be (I think):

    1. Users
    2. Forums
    3. Topics
    4. Tags
    5. Replies

    So check you had the ‘Attempt to import user accounts from previous forums’ checkbox ticked.

    I was importing from my Vbulletin 4 and it went through converting topics, then it started converting tags and hung about 12,900. Is this a known bug?

    Unlikely a bug. It seems there might be several reasons why it might ‘hang’. For example, if you are getting a line of ‘dashes’ this meaning you’re logged out of WordPress. It could be that one of your tags has some nasty data that is tripping the import, etc.


    gavintyte
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    @gavintyte

    Did you try using the repair functions after import?

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