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ndL wrote: same problem for me, comments?

Give it some time... if you've waited quite a while, and nothing has happened, just restart the script... it will pick up where it left off.

Paulo França, your tip/quick step guide was extremely informative... I know it's not useful to me, but I have saved it for others who may need it in the future.
Thanks for posting that!
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Highway of Life wrote:
ndL wrote: same problem for me, comments?

Give it some time... if you've waited quite a while, and nothing has happened, just restart the script... it will pick up where it left off.

24 hours later, still no progress. Restart the script, it craps out at exactly the same point every time and looking in phpMyadmin, the number of converted posts etc is always exactly the same.

I've reported it as a bug.

There are a few modifications but nothing that radically alters the database. There's the google Sitemaps mod, which adds a table, but the script is supposed to just ignore such things.

I'll try stripping it all out to a vanilla phpbb and see if that works but I don't have a great deal of time to do it right now. I also don't fancy that as a solution when it comes to converting the live board for real.

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Highway of Life wrote: Paulo França, your tip/quick step guide was extremely informative... I know it's not useful to me, but I have saved it for others who may need it in the future. Thanks for posting that!

Happy to be useful, but sad that I'm not able to write a db type conversion script as I know nothing about PHP. Anyways, sooner or later someone capable will end up showing up and he'll get it done.

Thanks for the acknowledgement. :oops: :D
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Well, just want you guys to know I successfully converted a backup of my forum (9.3k posts, 50-something users) without problems :D

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DBM wrote: I'll try ripping it all out to a vanilla phpbb and see if that works but I don't have a great deal of time to do it right now. I also don't fancy that as a solution when it comes to converting the live board for real.


I have now stripped out all the mods using the "clean_tables" tool (as recommended in the phpbb knowledge base), so the test board is now completely vanilla. And I'm still having the same problems with the page just timing out and checks in phpMyadmin show that no further progress has been made.

The test board is a clone of my live board (using a copy of the live database in an entirely separate database and copies of the live board's files in a separate folder).

I'm very reluctant to let this script loose on my live board until this problem can be ironed out.

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Just to let you know I have just added a step (added #2) I forgot to write at that time. :oops:
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DBM wrote:
DBM wrote: I'll try ripping it all out to a vanilla phpbb and see if that works but I don't have a great deal of time to do it right now. I also don't fancy that as a solution when it comes to converting the live board for real.


I have now stripped out all the mods using the "clean_tables" tool (as recommended in the phpbb knowledge base), so the test board is now completely vanilla. And I'm still having the same problems with the page just timing out and checks in phpMyadmin show that no further progress has been made.

The test board is a clone of my live board (using a copy of the live database in an entirely separate database and copies of the live board's files in a separate folder).

I'm very reluctant to let this script loose on my live board until this problem can be ironed out.

Where are you doing this test? On a hosted web server or on your local machine? Maybe try it on your local machine if you're currently doing it on a hosted machine to make sure they're not artificially restricting the number of mysql updates you can do at once.

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i did a test on my local machine, it worked fine, i realised that my hosting restricts that amount of sql querys per script and time i think. anything to do? maybe Devs could help people who experiences this kind of error, id like to suggest making a conversion script in parts, like you could press "next" button to proceed to the next conversion level where another 2000querys will be copied or something like that, i hope you understood what i wanted to say.

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If you are having difficulty converting your board on your server, try it on your localhost.
Run WAMP if you have Windoz
Run XAMPP if you have Windoz, Linux, or Mac
Run MAMP if you have a Mac
You can run the conversion on your localhost, then export your database in phpMyAdmin, then import it onto your remote server.

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Highway of Life wrote: If you are having difficulty converting your board on your server, try it on your localhost.
Run WAMP if you have Windoz

Thanks for the tip, HoL.

WAMP (and php 4.4.4 add-on) installed.

Any chance of a quick idiot's guide to performing the upgrade on there? :oops:

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