I have a fresh bbPress install and want to import everything possible from my phpBB version 3.2.4 installation. The import runs and step 8 is importing lots of anonymous topic authors.

However, why aren’t my users importing? Based on other posts I ensure no topics/threads are attributed to founders/moderators/admins. (I created a single founder account and downgraded everyone else).

I see some references to a 3rd party import script, and other references saying its not needed. Can someone help? It’s Jan 15 2020 and I have the latest bbPress. Note sure hot to proceed.

Excerpt from log:

6.No forum subscriptions to import
5.All forum parents imported100%
5.Calculating forum hierarchy (0 through 11 of 11)0%
4.All forums imported100%
4.Converting forums (0 through 16 of 16)0%
3.No passwords to clear
2.No users to import
1.Skipping sync-table clean-up

[@telium Participant 4 years, 11 months ago]

BTW, I only have 30 users on my forum. (Still relatively new). Is it easier/possible to manually create the users and then import will match them up to the right user (based on username)?

[@telium Participant 4 years, 11 months ago]

(I also tried converting all of my phpBB tables to utf8mb_unicode_ci but that didn’t help).

The onscreen status is very high level. Is there an import log somewhere that might provide more details- pointing to something I can fix? I’m comfortable altering the MySQL structure of phpBB if needed.

[@telium Participant 4 years, 11 months ago]

I just discovered that after the import, although the forum page says lots of posts and topics in each forum, when I enter any forum there are NO topics.

So this is going really badly….

[@heroyouwi Participant 4 years, 10 months ago]

hello, about phpbb 3.2.9, i mapped the corrent column in the script convert : phpBB.php
i have a heavy phpbb forum : 16 forums, 3000 topics, 95000 posts, 3000 users, all successfully imported in bbpress 2.5
here my fix :

phpbb 3.2.9 fix bbpress import

enjoy it

[@angeljs Participant 4 years, 10 months ago]

Unfortunately that didn’t work for me, everything just says nothing to import.

[@angeljs Participant 4 years, 10 months ago]

Okay, I managed to import users now, but no forums, even though the imported said they’d been imported.