MiniBB 2.x -> SMF 2.x : No users imported from old forum

[raf]

Hello,

import works partly properly - topics and messages are imported but the problem is with members, I got empty list of members after importing MINIBB to SMF.
Do you guys have ready solution or maybe ideas where to start investigating the problem?

I have to admit that in the past I merged 3 forums into one but didn't later sort things in database by date (instead I changed default behaviour of minibb to sort thing by date instead of IDs), but before making minibb->smf I sorted posts by date (this made problem with import earlier, I was getting duplicated indices)m leaving rest of structure intact (sorting rest of things by date and gaining new IDS this way would imply need to re-link entire forum data by new IDs)

[margarett]

Do you have duplicate ids in members tables?
Use this hint to find them
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854128/find-duplicate-records-in-mysql

If you do, it is very likely the converter will fail. Nevertheless you should get a database error and not an empty table...

[raf]

well there was no direct DB error though ther was an error reported here:

      $smcFunc['db_insert']('replace',
         '{db_prefix}settings',
         array('variable' => 'string', 'value' => 'string',),
         array(
*            array('latest_member', $row['latest_member']),
*            array('latest_real_name', $row['latest_real_name']),

lines 1557 and 1558 from convert.php, something like latest_member and latest_real_name couldnt ve found. I may update this post with 100% accurate text when I'll try the import once more.

I have to check again if there are nicks repeated though this should be fixed long time ago by me already (when I merged two more forum to forum that was running I already had to cope with same nick on two or even three of these forums)

[margarett]

Not the nicks but the ids. (Actually you can't also have equal usernames in SMF but for the converter it shouldn't be an issue)

[raf]

thank for your help, I checked source data once more and it turned out that... table with users from minibb was empty!

there were some other minor problems with converting DB, but I solved them all and now I have SMF instead of MINIBB, please delete this topic!

[margarett]

...it turned out that... table with users from minibb was empty!

Now I wouldn't guess that, for sure

Glad it worked out, welcome to SMF We don't delete the topic, might serve as a reference to someone in the future