Just noticed that although all messages and members were posted correctly from YaBBSE 1.5.5 to SMF 1.1, all the attachments in the messages in YaBBSE posts were lost.
I tried to re-do the conversion again by re-installing the SMF 1.1 database and ensure that all attachment are allowed from admin. The conversion was completely successful but the attachment were still lost. The conversion message is shown below in brown.
I have used the attached convert.php and yabbse_to_smf.sql to do the conversion. I found that there was mention of the attachment conversions inside the yabbse_to_smf.sql file but there was still no attachment.
Is this expected or is there something else that need to be done to convert the attachment as well? Many of these attachments are quite valuable and since there are more than 8000 messages in the old forum it is not quite practical to manually restore them.
Thanks for any advise.
YaBB SE 1.5.x to SMF Converter
Converting...
Converting members... Successful.
Converting categories... Successful.
Converting boards... Successful.
Converting topics... Successful.
Converting posts (this may take some time)... Successful.
Converting polls... Successful.
Converting poll options... Successful.
Converting poll votes... Successful.
Converting personal messages (step 1)... Successful.
Converting personal messages (step 2)... Successful.
Converting topic notifications... Successful.
Recalculating forum statistics... Successful.
Conversion Complete
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