My SeoVB.com (Bramcolm) Hosting Nightmare

[amphicar770]

I actually heard back from the head of Bramcolm. While issue is still unresolved, at least I finally received the courtesy of an update beyond "our admin is working on it". Here is the late

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[amphicar770]

More than two weeks ago my site went down, along with a second non-forum site. I mean down hard. No cpanel, no email, nothing. On Thursday AM I submitted a ticket and was informed their admin is working...

[amphicar770]

Hi All,

I would like to add some text with a hyperlink at the bottom of every message. Something like

"Visit mysite.com today"

How do I do this?
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[amphicar770]

Ah! Flashback.

When I imported the posts, it takes a while before you see anything on the screen. I now recall hitting "Continue" twice.

Will start over. Should...

[amphicar770]

Duplicate mshs in threads fro Yahoogroup

Hi All,

Looks like my import from Yahoogroups is nearly complete. One BIG problem remains.

It seems like a very large...

[amphicar770]

thanks. Running cleaner seems to have fixed the nesting issue. I still have lots of duplicate posts within threads. Seems like most messages are there twice?

[amphicar770]

OK, answered my own question. Looks like it cleans up everything in the database. Works well.

[amphicar770]

Cleanup question

Hi All,

I moved my imported yahoogroup messages into my site as forum #18.

I would like to do some additional cleaning with the cleanup tool....

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Imported Forum Msgs Are Nested

The forum created from my Yahogroup db exhibits odd behavior not found in my other forums. The message replies are all nested. When there are too many nested...

[amphicar770]

Since this will be an "archive only" form (no new posts) I set the html option to True and that seems to make it happy. I am assuming that since it is "read only" that this does not...

[amphicar770]

Now I am confused!

Import completed successfully. Reported 14,608 success with 3,388 fails. I can live with that.

The problem I know have is that any editing / html features...

[amphicar770]

OK, I think I've got it.

I created a junk table called tblSystem with two fields foo and bar. The table doe not appear to be used, Impex just likes knowing it is there.

I...

[amphicar770]

Ah, so close. Found the one table. Now showing:

Valid found tables :

tblGroups found.

Possibly custom tables or incorrect prefix :

tblSystem N...

[amphicar770]

Just updated it. Still same error (full listing below).

ImpEx build version : 1.87

Database cleanup & restart ||| Online manual
Using includes/config.php for target

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[amphicar770]

I've gotten all of the posts from the Yahoo Groups into a MS Access database using PG Offline... Jerry converted these to MySQL (A++ for customer support!).

I am now attempting import....