Has it been updated recently? Last time I tried it, did an import of users fine, but at least on a large forum, it timed out. Seemed to do some of the work, but needs some form of way to handle large forums.
So, it got to about 25,000 + Imported on my local host. Then it started outputing ————- in the window, and appeared to still be doing it. I checked, and only 2 posts seemed to have come in with content. There were a bunch of “”Automatically-Created Topics” in the forum tho.
Finally got it running on the local host. About 1/3 of the way done. The ones that stopped on me, some forums made it in, so hopefully that will be true here.
I’ll keep the importer low to help on that front. With that many posts, I don’t wanna deal with more dupes than necessary
Yeah, I hope I can pull it off, because after asking him about trimming the fat in the forums, it seemed to take over where it left off a couple times when it would stall, and I restarted, with out checking the options to start fresh, etc. but the last time I tried it, it seemed to start from the start. In theory, if it hangs up and I restart, should it continue from where it stopped?
Well, it looks like it MAY be working, but with 35k posts in the database, it’s a bear getting it to import. I’ve given up trying to do it on the live site, will do an attempt to set up a localhost install and see if I can get that working in a few days, but some posts existed. The nature of the site, and what’s gone on with it, there’s a lot of orphaned posts 🙁 Really wish I could get the client to consider a fresh start.
I’ve finally gotten around to trying again. I lowered the number of rows to 15 at a time, since it seemed to choke on 100 at a time and it’s going well. at 1800 so far. Just looked at the database, this is gonna take awhile.. 35k entries in the DB. I may talk to the client and suggest a fresh start to the forums, since the last post int he forums was 2 years ago last monday. :/ makes me wonder why he doesn’t want to do a major overhaul on the site, since I’m offering it for free, since he’s my last Zikula client, and he’s been with me for years. Shouldn’t be TOO hard to build a new site in WordPress and start fresh..
It’s been a while since I tried it, I’ll have to re-attempt it in a couple of days when I have an opportunity to try it again. As I recall, it imported the users fine, and then it looked like it was doing the posts, but after, I want to say about 150 posts, it froze there, never indicated further imports. When I checked the database tables, it didn’t appear that it actually brought the content from Dizkus over to bbPress at all.
As to the localhost problem, I mirrored the Zikula site to my local WIn 10 machine, and then tried to import on a local WP/bbP site and it didn’t do anything. Seems like it just couldn’t find data.
Guessing no headway on this 🙁 I don’t know enough about bbPress or really Dizkus to dig in to it and try to solve the issues.. Bummer, because i really want to get this client off Zikula.
I had the same localhost site problem you did, and when I tried on a live, it seemed to time out.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! 🙂 An older dizkus forum was the one dread I had on moving a client over to WP from Zikula.
