Update: import successful.
On the Repair forum tools page, all repairs work fine except for the following two which eventually throw up a 500 HTTP error. Hopefully this won’t cause trouble for me later.
These repairs timeout:
– Recalculate the position of each reply
– Remap existing users to default forum roles
A quick look through all the forums and topics and everything looks normal.
Hats off to the contributors who have developed the forum import tool, delighted that I finally got my forums migrated successfully!
Suggestions for minor UI improvements for the forum import tool:
– an option to have an audible beep or similar each time a block is successfully converted. It means we can leave running in the background and know immediately when it gets stuck and needs a manual stop/start. I had to manually stop / start about 5 or 6 times during the conversion process.
– a percentage of completeness and estimated time of completion (based on current conversion rate) would be a nice addition
Update: conversion speed varies a lot during my latest import.
For example, the rate was 700 replies converted in 1 hour. Later in the day, the peak conversion rate hit about 20,000 replies in 1 hour.
I’m nearly there now, about 80% of replies have been converted.
Next begins the repair process to try and find parent forums for all the orphaned replies.
