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[rjordan]

This has been asked for in the past many times and vB staff has always come back and said that it will not be made available for reasons that it would be used as a way to "upgrade" a forum from...

[rjordan]

I am upgrading a site from v4.0.3 to v4.1.0 PL1. I am getting this error as well. The only add-on on the site is for Add-On Chat. Multiple restores later, he is back to v4.0.3.

Note that...

[rjordan]

Actually, it is simple to answer. I purchased the site content from another site running vBulletin. They wanted to move their direction somewhere else and I wanted to keep the old content going. They...

[rjordan]

There are many of us that have expressed a genuine need for this. Unfortunately, they do not wish to add this functionality. If I remember correctly, they did not want it to be used as an "unsupported...

[rjordan]

I cannot locate any options to view a single post. Links that previously opened only a particular post now open a thread starting at the requested post. Has this functionality been removed from v4?

[rjordan]

Perhaps I worked it poorly (or did not give enough info at the start). The existing 4.0.3 is already in place and running. The add-on data (arcades, mods, etc.) from the other forum is not wanted......

[rjordan]

I understand that there are those that will abuse it, but for those of us that wish to do this legitimately it is unfortunate. I now have to figure out if I want to pay someone to write a converter or...

[rjordan]

That is a shame. I now cannot merge the databases. I hope that this will be available before too long and perhaps make it a standard to have the ability to import to and from all versions when a new...

[rjordan]

Same question being asked. If Impex is the vBulletin way to merge two databases together, how can I merge a 3.8.4 database from another site into my 4.0.3 forum that is active?

[rjordan]

Zachery, what do you suggest in the case I have presented here regarding merging another vBulletin that is v3.8.4 into my current v4.0.3?

[rjordan]

Thank you for the response, Zach. I have a question, however. The ultimate goal here is to upgrade one site to v4.0.3 and import the database from another that is currently at v3.8.4. I already have...

[rjordan]

Long and short, we want a fresh database where no other data has been populated from the start. Again, thanks for the suggestion.

I tried doing the upgrade from 3.7.x option and ran across...

[rjordan]

While I appreciate the suggestion, it is still not a truly clean database using that method.

[rjordan]

Has anyone been successful in using impex using the 3.7.x option to import a 3.8.x database into 4.0.3?

(If you followed that, you are good!)

[rjordan]

I was looking to run Impex to import from 3.8.x to 4.0.3. Impex does not have an option for 3.8.x, but does for 3.7.x. Will this work?

As for the question of "Why?", we want to...