Guys –

I have been through the mother of all forum migrations in the last few days, from YaBB 2.3.1 -> YaBB 2.4 -> SMF 1.1.11 -> phpBB3.

All to get into a format that would let me import into bbPress.

Now that I finally have a nice clean copy of my 75k post forum in phpBB, I am getting the following when I run the bbPress converter:

No passwords to clear
No users to convert
No data to clean
Starting Conversion

I stopped it at that point because I have read trying to re-run the converter is problematic.

I would be SO GRATEFUL for any help. At this point I just want to get through with this…

Zach

[@zachmatthews Participant 11 years, 7 months ago]

More info:

my host requires a jitinera_ prefex before the database name (JaguarPC and itinerantangler.com = jitinera).

So my database is jitinera, and the actual phpbb database is _phpbb, etc.

Here’s how I have filled out the blanks to produce the error:

Select Platform is the previous forum software: phpBB
Database Server IP or hostname: localhost
Database Port Use default 3306 if unsure: 3306
Database Name Name of the database with your old forum data: jitinera_phpbb
Database User User for your database connection: jitinera_[user name witheld]
Database Password Password to access the database: [password withheld]
Table Prefix (If converting from BuddyPress Forums, use “wp_bb_” or your custom prefix): bb_

Anyone see anything wrong with that?