I am attempting to convert a PHPBB3 forum to BBPress. Obviously it is failing (thus this post). It seems to run, and did change the name of the the admin account on the PHPBB forum. However, the rest of the process is as such:

Import Finished.
17.No threaded replies to import
16.No anonymous reply authors to import
15.No replies to import
14.No favorites to import
13.No topic subscriptions to import
12.No topic tags to import
11.No closed topics to import
10.No super stickies to import
9.No stickies to import
8.No anonymous topic authors to import
7.No topics to import
6.No forum subscriptions to import
5.No forum parents to import
4.No forums to import
3.No passwords to clear
2.No users to import
1.Skipping sync-table clean-up
Starting Import…
Ready to go.

What I am working with:

PHPBB3 = 3.2.11
BBPress = 2.6.9

Neither the old forum nor the new have any mods installed. BBPress is a virgin install on a virgin install of WordPress.

I am at a loss as to what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I end up with 2 similar posts, I apologize. I *think* my first post fell into the bitbucket, but if not it may appear as well.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Tommy

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

This was delayed…so…bump…

T

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

ok, so what did 1-16 say ?

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

No, I get it. But previously it was giving me an error for not accessing the database. I fixed that and now this. So it is accessing, just not pulling the data and I don’t know why.Or am I wrong?

T

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

sorry, was a long day and me being stupid – I hadn’t spotted that the list was running 17-1 – apologies.

But yes connections and naming are usually the issues when imports fail. is forum prefix correct?

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

It was the Table Prefix that was the issue. I never would have seen it, thanks for that. It looks like it is going solid until we get to step 11 and then I get the following:

11.Calculating closed topics (94 through 100 of 100)100%

11.Calculating closed topics (100 through 94 of 94)100%

11.Calculating closed topics (94 through 100 of 100)100%

11.Calculating closed topics (100 through 94 of 94)100%

That just keeps looping. Is there something to look for to resolve this? Hopefully, I feel like this may actually happen. 🙂

Thanks!

Tommy

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

hmm…

are you getting any further ?

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

Sorry, I was away for work.

I am not getting any further. But…I did notice something and thing the problem started earlier than this.

It is not importing the sures down in step 2. I have verified this.

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

Sometimes downgrading phpbb might work, have you tried this ?

i will soon try invision to bbpress, but i’m afraid the last version of invision is not supported

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

I could downgrade the forum, but not the database. I think the script is just reading the current sql database and that’s all.

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

Wondering what version of phpbb was current when the script was written. It might matter.

As it stands now, this is a no go.

S

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

It says 3x:

Import Forums

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

Phpbb issues :

phpBB

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

Of course I read all of that…

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

I will also need to migrate from other software to bbpress i wonder if there are some experts here for paid migration jobs ?

or even maybe some bbpress officials for a paid mission ?

that would solve your problem (and mine to come)

[@spanky11 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

I would pay as well so long as the job were done right. If anyone is interested let me know. Both phpbb and bbpress are vanilla.

S