Merging two 3.8 boards, which is source?

[jwocky]

Sorry, Im new to IMPEX system. I have one very large forum (forum A) and one very small forum (forum B).

I want to merge forum B into forum A, so that all the users and threadid's for...

[jwocky]

Increase your MYSQL connections in mysql, here are two ways to do that

1) edit my.cnf file on your server "nano /etc/my.cnf" or whereever the location of my.cnf may be on your...

[jwocky]

If I use the ADMINCP to move the avatars from database to the file system in a dual server environment (separate web server and database server), does vbulletin know to move the files from server1 to...

[jwocky]

Im an idiot, I remeber there was a way to have vbulletin display at the bottom of the page some statistics on the query that was issued. I think it involved a small option change or a change to a global.php...

[jwocky]

I want to create some more user group permissions, but by default after a user validates their email they are automaticlly put into the registered users group, is there a way to tell vb to put them all...

[jwocky]

I have a nicely working backup script that does a database dump and rsyncs everything. But the server loads shoot up when i'm doing a backup.

I'm wondering if there is anyway to actually...

[jwocky]

I have an expired license for 3.7, i'm trying to upgrade to 3.8 but I only see options to purchase an upgrade to 4.0.

Any chance to purchase upgrades to 3.8 or does the 4.0 upgrade include...

[jwocky]

BTW im running vb 3.7.0, was this a known glitch back then or maybee one of my settings is off

[jwocky]

There is some weird activity on my forum in that when my moderator uses the Delete posts as spam button it will delete the selected post and ban the user just fine. However even though the moderators...

[jwocky]

Thanks steve, you are the best!!!

[jwocky]

My rebuild search index hit a database error half way along and i just continued with another rebuild search index starting from the thread where it crashed.

Does the second rebuild add...

[jwocky]

One of my users was totally trashed in my import and all his posts still display his name but in regular font because his user account is actually wiped out. Its no big deal, and i've created a new account...

[jwocky]

Ah I see, yea this was a merger of two sites using impex, ok I see so those subscribed threads are gone. Oh well.

Thanks for the help anyway...

[jwocky]

I could write one possibly, do you know if subscribed thread ids are even carried over from the old databse in order to associate them? I'm guessing they are lost tho so even with the import threadids...

[jwocky]

All of my users from the source board lost their threads subscriptions, is there anyway to rebuild those back into their accounts or is that data lost because of the change in the threads ids? (i'm hoping...

[jwocky]

So im in the process of merging in the private messages and had it set to merge 1000PMs per cycle however i'm running into the mysql server has gone away messages so I think I need to lower the number...

[jwocky]

I want to merge a small forum into a much much larger forum and my assumption is that the large forum would actually be the 'target' forum and the small one is the 'source'.

Is that correct...

[jwocky]

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Just FYI for the vb staff

[jwocky]

I'm looking to install a wiki onto my site, it will be completly separate from vbulletin so I have no need for integration, etc..
I was looking for opinions on what people thought was a good wiki...

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Nobody blames Jelsoft for the SPAM, thats non-sensical. Its not their fault. But I think Jelsoft should take note of the increase in spam, because I can see how alot of people would jump ship to another...