Avatars Not Importing With ImpEx 1.70

[GasPipeJimmy]

I'm upgrading my existing un-modded PHPbb 2.0.21 board to vB 3.6.2 and the import went mostly fine except that it banned all my users (even though I didn't run the ban list importer) but I was able to eventually fix that by manually unbanning everyone.

What I can't fix is that none of the avatars imported.

Is there a way I can do this manually as I don't seem to see this addressed anywhere in the manual other than to make sure that my avatar destination folder is chmoded to 777 and that I'm not trying to incorporate them into my database. That part is already done.

I put in a support ticket yesterday, and I was told that they would have to wait for Jerry to come back before I could get an answer. I was hoping that maybe someone had encountered and solved this problem.

PS: The Active X spell checker for this site deletes your entire post the very first time you install it.
Not fun. :eek:

[Zachery]

You mean it put all of the users into the imported usergroup which has all permissions set to no? It should do this, you just need to move them.

How are you currently storing avatars in vBulletin, in phpBB some avatars may be remotely linked, I'm not sure how phpBB's avatar storage is done, any remotely linked ones need to be fetcted by curl or fsockopen or something similiar. If the server you are on lacks this you wont be able to get them.

[GasPipeJimmy]

You mean it put all of the users into the imported usergroup which has all permissions set to no? It should do this, you just need to move them.

How are you currently storing avatars in vBulletin, in phpBB some avatars may be remotely linked, I'm not sure how phpBB's avatar storage is done, any remotely linked ones need to be fetcted by curl or fsockopen or something similiar. If the server you are on lacks this you wont be able to get them.

Almost all of my avatars are stored in a file on my server in PHPbb. The few that are remotely linked I can just tell them to get a new avatar, so that part does not bother me.

Are you saying this might be a user group permission issue?
That I think I can fix, but the avatar folder in vB is still empty.

Can I just do a manual drag and drop with my FTP client and that will make them appear?
How will it know what avatars to link with what users?
Could it really be that simple?
I hope.

[Jerry]

Set your image storage for the avatars to be the database, then do the import, then tell vBulletin to move them to the file system.

By default ImpEx puts them in the database.

[SFC]

how do you tell vbulletin to move them to the files sytem? I think this will fix my issue.

[SFC]

I found the "Picture Storage Type' option under avatars.

Do I have to create the directory /customavatars first or will this process create the folders for me?

[conqsoft]

Create the directory and make sure its set to 777.