[SMF Converter] Yabb - 2.1

[JayBachatero]

Well I don't know much about the mods for YaBB.  What does the members only search do?  Can you create a backup board and try to convert w/o the mods installed?

[madkeen]

Members only search just means you have to be logged in to be able to us ethe search function.

The only ones that would effect the profile would be the  - Users Avatars Upload and YaMMS 4 (Yet Another Member Map)

Users Avatars Upload - http://www.boardmod.org/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=newsy2;action=display;num=1145536083

YAMMS - http://www.boardmod.org/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=newsy2;action=display;num=1104252089

[madkeen]

Bit hard to do the board without the mods as they are very important mods to the members

I was thinking it maybe more the data that is in the profile file rather than the mods. Maybe ?

Also the shear size of the forum makes it a bit of a hard task. But if you think it is the only way I will give it a go.

[JayBachatero]

Let me try and get a custom converter for you.  Can you send me a few of the .vars and .dat files from the members dir.  That way I can see the structure of it.

[madkeen]

Thanks

PM sent with info

[JayBachatero]

I looked at it and it look ok to me.  Can you give me FTP info so that I can give it a shot and debug it?

[madkeen]

E-mail sent with FTP and SMF details

[JayBachatero-Clone]

You sent it to lilj625@gmail right?  This is a test account that I have while my other account is restored.

[madkeen]

Hi

I sent it to the simply machines E-mail where I sent the other one.

Have just forwarded it to the gmail address

[JayBachatero-Clone]

I'll look into it now.

[chep]

I converted from yabb 2.1 and had around 15 mods installed. I obviously did not keep those mods and did not expect to but the conversion was seamless.

Thank you

[JayBachatero-Clone]

Hi

I sent it to the simply machines E-mail where I sent the other one.

Have just forwarded it to the gmail address

Ok I have the conversion running.  The weird thing is that the first time that I ran it I got the error then I added some debug stuff and it's been running fine so far.  Converting topics now.  Might take a while.  Might want to put the live forum down for a bit.

[madkeen]

Thanks, have put the live one off line

BTW - Took over an hour for the error to come up some times.

[JayBachatero-Clone]

Well the error was on the members table so that table is done for.

[madkeen]

Excellent, here's hoping the rest will go smoothly :-)

[JayBachatero]

Had to restart the conversion since the converter died on the topics part 2.  I changed that a bit to prevent it from dying.

[ApacheXMD]

Hi. I'm trying to convert my Yabb2.1 board, but I keep getting an Internal Server Error when running the convert tool. I've tried multiple times, and the error seems to occur pretty randomly. Sometimes it would happen when converting Topics, or sometimes when converting Posts, or even right off the bat. The furthest I've got has been converting Posts (part 2).

I'm not running any mods, and my forum has a modest post count (~38,000) posts). Any help would be appreciated.

-patchy

[JayBachatero]

Are you with 1and1 hosting?  I've had this happen to be before also.

[ApacheXMD]

no, I'm with Site5.
anyhoo. I was able to get it to work, by clicking Back in my browser to go back to the previous step, and hitting the Continue button after each Internal Server Error. Now everything seems to be running ok. Thanks!

-patchy

[JayBachatero]

no, I'm with Site5.
anyhoo. I was able to get it to work, by clicking Back in my browser to go back to the previous step, and hitting the Continue button after each Internal Server Error. Now everything seems to be running ok. Thanks!

-patchy

Hard way of doing it but at least you got it to work.