Good morning Jerry!
Before I start, I'd just like to compliment you and the whole crew on a great product. It's a bit twisty at times, but the documentation is excellent.
'K, here we go:
Last night I configured and installed a clean vBulletin 3.6.2, I then configured and installed Impex with just the folder for wowBB and index in the impex/systems directory.
So I have a clean vBulletin 3.6.2 importing from WoWBB 1.7.
Everything seemed to go well until I got to "polls" It imported about 5 and then flashed to a blank import screen (like it does as it changes to another batch) for "polls" and just hung there.
After waiting for quite a while (10-15 min?) I went through the options and eventually reset the whole import, dumping the data and starting from scratch. Same thing happened, and I couldn't go to any other part of the process (I know you said not to page back, but I gave it a shot out of deperation, but always ended back on the blank "poll" import screen).
So I dumped the import again and this time I imported everything BUT the polls... Did them last
. Then I striped the import id tags from the DB and ran through the post import steps in the Admin cp (Forum Manager Save Display Order etc) as outlined in the Impex manual.
Here comes the wierd part. All the forums, threads, posts seem to be there, and all the users seem to be in the DB, but they are all banned for life? I checked and they didn't get put in an import usergroup. But when I looked under the custom usergroups I found that all the groups seemed to have the "Not a banned group" value set to "No". Ah-ha! So I set them to "Yes". But... everyone is still banned? Ok... At this point I think I need some guidance?
I've got the original state of the clean vBulletin DB backed up, as well as the entire httpdocs folder from just before the import, so I can definitely roll everything back, and this is just a trial/dry run that has zero impact on my production WoWBB forum.
Any assistance in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated! TIA
James
Before I start, I'd just like to compliment you and the whole crew on a great product. It's a bit twisty at times, but the documentation is excellent.
'K, here we go:
Last night I configured and installed a clean vBulletin 3.6.2, I then configured and installed Impex with just the folder for wowBB and index in the impex/systems directory.
So I have a clean vBulletin 3.6.2 importing from WoWBB 1.7.
Everything seemed to go well until I got to "polls" It imported about 5 and then flashed to a blank import screen (like it does as it changes to another batch) for "polls" and just hung there.
After waiting for quite a while (10-15 min?) I went through the options and eventually reset the whole import, dumping the data and starting from scratch. Same thing happened, and I couldn't go to any other part of the process (I know you said not to page back, but I gave it a shot out of deperation, but always ended back on the blank "poll" import screen).
So I dumped the import again and this time I imported everything BUT the polls... Did them last

Here comes the wierd part. All the forums, threads, posts seem to be there, and all the users seem to be in the DB, but they are all banned for life? I checked and they didn't get put in an import usergroup. But when I looked under the custom usergroups I found that all the groups seemed to have the "Not a banned group" value set to "No". Ah-ha! So I set them to "Yes". But... everyone is still banned? Ok... At this point I think I need some guidance?
I've got the original state of the clean vBulletin DB backed up, as well as the entire httpdocs folder from just before the import, so I can definitely roll everything back, and this is just a trial/dry run that has zero impact on my production WoWBB forum.
Any assistance in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated! TIA
James
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