Copying Users and Database to new forum

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cavanfishing
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Copying Users and Database to new forum

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Hi. Love the Mod btw, top marks!! ;)

Now to my question.. I currently have a phpbb3 forum running Green Vision style. Basically I want to know if it is possible to copy all my Users, Posts, Topics etc from old forum and populate my new Modphpbb3 site?
I have tried by copying across the main aspects like topics, Users, posts and forums but I keep getting a "Topic doesnt exist" message even though I can clearly see the topic on the new board within the relevant forums.. What have I done wrong please or is it way too much hassle to try and complete this task and if so what are my alternatives?


Thanks so much. :wave:
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Re: Copying Users and Database to new forum

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Problem sorted, I wasnt getting the full database downloaded for some reason and I can get them all now. So I'm sorted! :grin:
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Re: Copying Users and Database to new forum

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So you managed to move all users and posts over into a fresh ModphpBB3, wow brilliant job!
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Re: Copying Users and Database to new forum

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How tho when u cant change the DB table name
ie phpbb you cant change to example phpbb3_
because the users will not convert over?
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cavanfishing wrote:Problem sorted, I wasnt getting the full database downloaded for some reason and I can get them all now. So I'm sorted! :grin:
you really did it smoothly? W0W! is there any glitch encountered?
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