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Freelance: lol @ subject

Till now I've converted my forum about 10 times. :) I've been checking out some bugs in the convertor, like for example, the converter uses phpBB3's language names instead of 2.0's. In 2.0 it's "english", in 3.0 it's "en", which results in some errors/notices. those probably are...

EXreaction wrote:

Uchiha Nick wrote: one thing I forgot- it didn't convert everything, a bunch of users where missing as well

Hmm...maybe they just put it up unfinished to toy with us?

hmm, as funny as it would be, it's kinda cruel doncha think?

/me just re-installed Olympus

Glad you backed up everything? You should always only test something like this on a local server...after making an exact copy of the forum you want to test it on(on your local server). Pull the data from your local server as well(not the regular one). Wink since I'm to lazy to configure my localhos...

hmmm, I don't know what to think of it yet. I tried it 2 times ( yes 2 times ) and 2 times it partially worked. I kept getting some kind of lang include error ( ? ) while I gave the right path for the old installation. ( I had to re-upload phpbb2.x because the real instalation was under a different ...

APTX: I'm almost there as well just need to convert users and posts/topics, which is a *beep*..

EDIT: oh no wait, it's there... but it isn't seen as posts. all forums say 0 topics, 0 posts and the same with my users. I suspect the same thing is with the private messages

I'm currently in the process of converting.. and if I'm right, the only thing that happens is the Database preperation for Olympus, and all existing info ( users, forums etc. ) will just be converted. ( duh ) if this is how it goes, I hope it makes some things more understandable :) EDIT: be sure to...

there is some sense in it, but still I don't see it working. I just can't lol, I've read other Karma discussions on this board with ( IMO better ways ) which where still smited.

most will probably create their own style anyway, to match it to their site