After Conversion, some users mixed up, can this be fixed?

Started by Spennig, May 22, 2007, 12:01:47 PM

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Spennig

After we converted a relatively large DB from PHPBB over to SMF, we found that there were 2-3 users that were credited with posts from another user, and that some of the PM's were mixed up accordingly.

I just emptied the PM storage, but is there a way to correct the "X" posted this topic, when it should have been "Y" issue?

When the DB was originally converted, we removed the prior user tables so as to clear the users all to guest for the prior posts, to archive them. Then imported a new user set. Looks like some got d=crossed somehow.

Spennig

No thoughts?

So far most users are re-posting things that might be mixed up, but I'm still getting reports of mixed up users, and would like to be able to mass-correct posts, or even just correct them at all.

Maybe a suggestion for how to change the poster info to a different user, or to a guest, so I can type the right name in?

Spennig

Alternately, could this post get moved to someplace that -someone- might be inclined to reply with -any- suggestions? Since noone in this section seems to know... I'm really trying to find an answer so I can fix things, instead of having to tell 60+ people "don't mind the name mistakes, I'm working on it", every time they find a new one.

SleePy

Is this issue solved or do you still require assistance?

It may be possible if those users don't exist or you don't want them to exist
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Spennig

It's actually still not resolved, we've just done a lot of re-posting and working around it, since I hadn't gotten replies for months >_<

SleePy

I am sorry that it took a while for us to reply. Converters are not something that is easily known and understood by many.

If you know the message id of each of those posts, you can go into the database and alter that message to point to the correct member id though.
Message Ids can be found when you click a individual posts link. In the url you will see something ike ?topic=XXX.msgYYY#msgYYY
The YYY is the message ID you are looking for, which in the database you would just search for ID_MSG = YYY.
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