possible to convert an old style ezboard?

[Egg]

is there a suitable convertor out there for ezboard to smf1??

thanks

[Ben_S]

No, and it's unlikely there ever will be as ezboard won't give you access to the db.

It would be  possible to create one that "reads" posts & stuff but it would take ages and I dont imagine anyone is going to write it.

[Egg]

bugger
I was thinking of doing the ezboard to  phpBB  and then to smf route..

you reckon that would work??

[Grudge]

Probably.

[Egg]

well, I'll try in that case and let you know!!

[Egg]

ez to phpBB seems to be working. its a laborius process though, but as its the only option...

works better on the smaller forums in teh board..

larger forum with over 5000 topics took about 4 hours, and i got to wondering if it was still working....or jsut looping...

it got them all in the end...

4 more forums to do, and then convert to SMF

[[Unknown]]

I might try reverse engineering the phpBB one, but I'll have to ask permission first.

-[Unknown]

[nave]

please flame me if i'm totally off the mark here, because i haven't a clue what i'm talking about. would it be possible to do a similar thing with a proboards board to phpbb to smf? i have a board with .. well lets just say a lot of posts and members, and i dont really want to stay there, would rather host it myself and my members like smf already, so i was hoping to move but i dont want to lose what we've built over the last two years.

[Oldiesmann]

Proboards and similar hosted boards are hard to convert from due to the way they store data (ie they don't want you touching it). I think he means he's thinking about hacking up the ezboard to phpBB convertor so it will go from ezboard to SMF since a lot of us are unfamiliar with how to do this.

[nave]

a shame, really. i knew i should have switched it to yabbse last year when i had the chance, back when we only had 50,000 posts to lose instead of 100,000.

[[Unknown]]

It might be possible to transfer it... but I can promise you that it will take a LONG time to convert.

I'm not sure when I will have time to get to ezboard/proboards though.......

-[Unknown]

[nave]

i dont really have hope of it ever happening, but thanks

oh and if it was possible to convert.. i would drastically prune the board, leaving only important posts. i would probably cut it by 75%

[bluevoodu]

so there is no solution to this? or is there?

I have an old EZboard I am looking to switch over as well....

IE did that EZ to Phpbb then to SMF work?

Even if there is an experimental way... I am game to try it.

†B†V†

[bluevoodu]

egg did you get Ezboard to PHPbb to work?

I cannot get the frigger to work for the life of me.



†B†V†

[Egg]

yes I did.

let me check my notes at home.

but I think it was all to do with the multiple page setting, it is in a capital Y , and it hangs.. and keeps looping.

I changed it for a lowercase y and it asks you to continue to next page... it takes very little time. dunno why that worked, but it did.

do the rest as it says on the tin.
I lost the DB I saved it to,  but will be doing it again shortly.

[bluevoodu]

were you on MySQL or MS SQL for Phpbb?

just curious   as I am on MS SQL.. and the converter seems to be written for MySQL.

†B†V†

[Egg]

MySql