Convert from ubb classic

Am about to install vbulletin script and the only concern I have is with converting from UBB Classic, I am looking to employ assistance from someone who has experience with importing.

I should be ok with the install and skin, but last time i converted a board (from ubb to phpbb) it took forever, I am sure there is a quicker way?

Am about to install vbulletin script and the only concern I have is with converting from UBB Classic, I am looking to employ assistance from someone who has experience with importing.

I should be ok with the install and skin, but last time i converted a board (from ubb to phpbb) it took forever, I am sure there is a quicker way?

I just went through this, as a test for a real conversion that I'm going to do this weekend.

If you've got a lot of posts & threads, it takes a long time to do the conversion. I read about one guy on vBulletin.com who said it took 4 hours to do the conversion on his site.

In my case I'm going from 6.1.0.1 and there were a bunch of issues after the import that had to be dealt with manually:

- All of the users went into a usergroup that had no permissions at all, that group had to be deleted and the users put into "registered users". Without doing this the memberlist would show nothing.
- The forums "display order" was set to 0, so no forums were being displayed. This had to be changed to a positive number in order for anything to show up.
- All of the posts were "closed", I had to run a sql script to set the status to open: update`vb_thread` set open = 1
- It is very important to get the file system paths correct in step 1 of the import, make sure that everything shows "ok" or you're gonna have lots of problems.

Thanks Mikelbeck, excellent info, and it is encouraging that you expect to get through this in a weekend.

I am do not see an offer of help though, please consider assisting me with this, which importer did you use?.

Thanks Mikelbeck, excellent info, and it is encouraging that you expect to get through this in a weekend.

I am do not see an offer of help though,

Well, that's because I didn't offer to help, just offered some information. I have to do the "final" conversion this weekend.

which importer did you use?.

The ubb.classic importer that's part of the vBulletin Impex package.

please consider assisting me with this,

I wouldn't really have to time to think about helping with this until the middle to the end of next week.

Thanks for the info, we have just purchased and will keep you posted on our install.

Thanks for the info, we have just purchased and will keep you posted on our install.
Like I said, I'll have some time next week. So if you're stranded give me a yell and I'll do what I can.

no problems with the install, and impex has started ok.

Impex went well!

only some gremlins are displaying others are showing the text?