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art99
Tue 7th Mar '06, 9:44am
Gentlemen.
I 'm sorry about this question, as I searched and could not find the answer. It might be in here but I don't have the time to read a few thousand posts. Sorry.
This is my question:
I like to clean up my database, so I purchased one account in a server, named it "Testforums", installed VB and I like to transfer the database there, but I only want the Members, Threads/posts and Attachments. Using Mysqldumper, what "tables" should I transfer from my actual forum to the test site? I don't really care about the hacks or styles. All I want is a "clean" forum with all the members, threads/posts and attachments.
Thanks.

Colin F
Tue 7th Mar '06, 11:54am
Don't simply transfer single tables.
If you only want certain things, I recommend using ImpEx to import those things.
You can select which modules to run when using ImpEx, so you can select to import only users, threads/posts, and attachments.

art99
Wed 8th Mar '06, 5:39am
Thanks, Colin. That did the trick. Impex is an excellent tool!