Very nice...

[infobeto]

hi!

I just downloaded the latest version of the importer (phpBB2) to try again.

Guess what. Now I can't even import the users, which worked before.

Very nice... :mad:

[Floris]

Did you first revert to your backup before trying again, or did you try to apply this second try to the already failing import?

[infobeto]

I don't have any data in the database. Just the imported data which I delete with Jerry's clean-up scripts everytime I do an import.

Imported 840 Failed 615

There is something different with the script at this point. Never had such a message before even I didn't have all the users imported.

Please check the script again at this point. It is not working.

[infobeto]

After 3 attempts the script seems now to work although it stops some times and I have to start it again. I get errors that some users were not imported. However they are all in the database. Strange....

Something has changed in the script at this stage (User import).

I'm not confident it will work when I decide to transfer. I hope for a VB's answer for the final release which will have everything sorted out. For the moment I'm only testing and everything I notice I write it here hoping to help both users and VB team.

Regards,
Nektarios.

[Floris]

Your feedback is helping us debug and work on improvements. Unfortn. I am not the one who writes the code, but I am sure the devs will read this and try to improve their work :)

[infobeto]

Ok!

This morning I tried 4 imports.

None of the them worked properly during the users import!

The script stops at certain users and when I restart it (pressing Import/Export on the left side menu), it seems to go on but I'm getting messages that some users have already been imported.

Finnaly, the script finishes and I have more users than I was supposed to have. This is because there are duplicate entries in the users table. All users have been imported but lots of them exist twice in the users table.

Jerry can you please please check the script at this point?

Regards,
Nektarios.

[infobeto]

Note: I always empty the tables with the clean-up script before importing. In case you ask that...:cool:

[Jerry]

Nektarios, thanks for all the feedback it does help a lot.

Is there anything else going on, like time outs or the script crashing ? There hasn't been any major mod to the phpBB user module so I'm trying to think what else could effect it.

[infobeto]

The script times out. What I mean is that I see the process bar at the bottom of the explorer saying "opening page......", and after a while I see "Done".

In order to continue the import I have to click on the link "Import/Export" again.

This happens twice during the import. The results are those I mentioned before.

Before downloading the latest script (yesterday), the older version (about 3-4 days ago) worked fine on this step. All users were imported at once without any time outs.

Regards,
Nektarios.

[infobeto]

Just tried putting 100 users at a time and although I got the timeouts I got all the users and only 1 duplicate account.

More testing results are coming soon... :)

[Jerry]

Importing avatars will do this as the script has to open remote files from URL's and there is little that can be done about handling errors or time outs on that.