I was installing bbPress on my website, using the Tools > Forums > Import forums. It was going okay until it reach converting replies. My forum have 52 600 messages in 18 000 subjects from 1200 users.
– I visited the url mysite.com/forums and I see it well, but at first sights it seems there is no replies at all in every message.
– Here is what I see in the yellow box.

Can you tell me what to do from here ? (as nothing keep going, but the little wheels keeps tuning)

Converting replies (2200 - 2299)
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No tags to convertNo super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
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[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 3 months ago]

Once the import finishes you will be prompted with a link to the repair tools, you need to run each of these after importing so bbPress, you can’t do this until everything is imported.

Edit: I think you may be inferring the import doesn’t ever actually finish?
If that is the case see the docs here: https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/

[@mpesgt01 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

I think you may be inferring the import doesn’t ever actually finish?
If that is the case see the docs here: https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/import-troubleshooting/

Thanks for this link Stephen. It is relaoding again from where it stoped. Fingers crossed 😉

– Once the import hangs, click stop, take a note of where it was up to, e.g. Converting 11,299 – 11,300
– Click start again and the import will continue from where it left off

[@mpesgt01 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

Stuck again, but this time on “Starting conversion ————”
Looks frozen, can I hit Stop and then Start there also ?

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 3 months ago]

No, in this case that will not work, what has actually happened is WordPress has “lost” the login connection to MySQL, just refresh the page and login to WordPress again if needed and your fixed.

[@mpesgt01 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks. Waiting for the answer, I have stop and start it 🙁

Here’s what my old phpbb3 forum says ;
18,504 sujets • 52,637 messages • 1,272 membres

Here’s what my new bbpress import says ;
5,075 Topics / 30,100 Replies / 1,347 User

Also, when I visit my new forum on my site, no replies are shown. When I am in dashboard (admin, all replies are there. Tough, the import didnt get everything. This took me maybe 2 days. What I do from here ? Retry importing from scratch ?

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 3 months ago]

Did you run the repair tools?

The counts won’t be accurate until after you’ve run each repair tool, this should also match up the forum and topic meta so you see your replies with the topics.

[@mpesgt01 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

yes, all repair were done, then I gave you these numbers above…

[@mpesgt01 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

…or any other ways to import. Like going with another forum import first and then import to bbpress ?????