Hi, quick and simple.

I have imported our SMF forum to bbPress.
All 150k posts and replies have been shipped over, all fine, but all posts are in “my” name now.
I have ticked covert users setting and the users are in the database, but still all posts are shown as being posted in the siteadmin name used for the import.

I have used the repair settings as well.

I have never done an import like this before, and not really sure where I go wrong. I have done the import twice, but still comes out with the same.

I do hope you can be of some assistance.

Cheers, Cato.

[@catolarsen Participant 10 years ago]

Hmm. No one who have same issues to this? Or a solution or a thought of what it might be?

[@kiwi3685 Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

I have the same issue. Can anyone help point me in the right direction to avoid it happening if I re-import?

Presumably there is something ‘odd’ about the field mapping, but where to look?

[@kiwi3685 Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Is there something we can do that might encourage someone to reply to us regarding this issue?

Even a simple “sorry we can’t help you” would at least let us know where we stand.

[@kiwi3685 Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Moderator, I think redkrayola’s reply is spam???

[@kiwi3685 Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Is there anyone moderating these pages?

And please…. can anyone help with this SMF import problem…?????

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 10 months ago]

@kiwi3685

what importer did you use , the one listed in tools>forums Import??

because i see the bbPress one doesnt have much information in the codex and it is still in beta testing.

this could work or not , im only guessing to try to help

what you could try is go to tools>forums Repair forums and check

Remap existing users to default forum roles

and see if that fixes it.

there is also a ticket on the importer for SMF

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2380

[@kiwi3685 Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks. Nice to at least get a response, so your thoughts are appreciated.

However, the ticket you refer to is closed. The file in latest bbPress download matches the final version (smf3.php) available there, so I’m sure it’s reasonable to assume the code is the latest available.

But while waiting for some help I did some further digging in my smf database. I found one user with an invalidly formatted user_id. After removing that the import worked.

Regarding “Remap existing users to default forum roles”, the import instructions recommend running ALL repair functions after importing, which I did at every import attempt.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 10 months ago]

@kiwi3685

glad you solved your own issue.