Hello I am in the process of converting a simplepress forum to bbpress.

The first issues I have noticed is that the date and time of some posts is not being carried over and is defaulting to the time of the conversion. However this is not on all post, only a percentage, approximately 860 topics of a total 5029. One thing I have noticed is that all the topics witout updated date/times do not have any responses to the original post, although there are posts with correct date/times that have no responses if that makes sense.

I have run all the repair functions and the only one I am having trouble with is “Recalculate the position of each reply” which seems to stop (timeout?) and go to a white page.

Any insight as to what may be going on?

[@landshark Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Tried the import a couple of more times, played with the row limit and delay time settings and no change. Just takes longer.

Also noticed it is always the same posts that are affected. Just haven’t been able to figure out a common thread.

One other thing to add, this was originally an SMF form that was converted to simplepress a year or two ago when I couldn’t get SMF converted to bbpress properly.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 8 months ago]

please read these two guides first , and hopefully they will help you

https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/
https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/simplepress/

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 8 months ago]

if you did read those already you might need @netweb’s help since he knows more about this stuff.

or you could hire a developer to do this for you,

post a job at http://jobs.wordpress.net/ if you do this route come back with some kind of information to hopefully help out other users.

[@landshark Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks, I had read those pages. Seems like all went well except the weird freshness thing. hopefully @netweb will have some idea of what’s going on.

[@landshark Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

After more investigation I have concluded that the topics effected have a all 0’s in the date column in simplepress when imported into bbpress they are adjusted to the current date/time. I think this is a carryover from my conversion from SMF to Simplepress. So I do not think it is able to be fixed since the original date time is gone.