Impex Import vBulletin 4.1.10 > 4.1.10. Error on Import Users, everything else works

[John Regan]

I tried everything. Ultimately, when I tried importing forum y into forum x (as opposed to importing forum x into forum y) it worked. So I went with that instead.

[John Regan]

Hi,

I'm importing one vBulletin forum into another. I've run all of the import sequences just fine until I ran into "Import Users". There are 30,000 users to import, and each one...

[John Regan]

It took me about 16 hours. In case you didn't know, you can refresh the upgrade page if it's taking forever.

With a forum your size, however, I would most certainly recommend that you upgrade...

[John Regan]

I am sorry to be resurrecting a dead thread, but I just wanted to share that I experienced the "Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in [path]/includes/functions.php...

[John Regan]

I do have an additional question. I believe it's wiser that I ask this question here, as opposed to starting a new thread, as the information above is potentially pertinent.

I spent two...

[John Regan]

And naturally, after running those counters, the situation resolved itself. Thanks! I'm curious--did that phpMyAdmin screenshot look correct for a vB 4 installation? I'm only wary because of how the installer...

[John Regan]

I'm sorry--I actually neglected to run those counters. I'm running the thread information one right now, and despite the fact that there are only 390,000 threads in the forum, the utilityis up to more...

[John Regan]

Yes. This is what the post table looks like in phpMyAdmin:
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[John Regan]

I'm pretty sure something went horribly wrong, because there are no more links to the members who made the last post on the main forum page, and when you click the link to a member, you get a link like...

[John Regan]

Yup. All of your forums and threads would have different IDs. That's not what we in the business call "good seo"....

[John Regan]

An upgrade is almost like a fresh installation. You upload a clean batch of files; your products, plugins, and styles usually won't work anymore; and the extra crap you put in your database will be ignored...

[John Regan]

I have been upgrading a forum from 3.8.x to 4.1.10. The forum is quite large, with nearly half a million posts. I didn't realize that I should have performed this upgrade over SSH, so I began the upgrade...