Questions about EZBOARD conversion

[bmilder]

I emailed you guys a week ago but I received no response. I figured maybe I'd have better luck getting an answer here.


Hello, I have an ezboard community that will probably be moving to vBulletin soon. However, before we go ahead with the purchase I have a few questions:

I understand that only messages are imported. I want to re-create the user accounts to give the illusion that they were imported too. I will be able to change the registration dates and post counts to match the old ezboard ones, correct? Do you recommend creating the user names before or after importing the posts?

How long exactly does the post import take? Is it instantaneous or take all day? I really have no idea how this works.

I'm also curious as to how much space it will take up. I have about 30,000 messages on my ezboard that I wish to import, and I have 250 megs of space left on my site - is this enough?

Can I transfer the posts in my private ezboard forums to the vbulletin?

Thanks. Hope you can answer these questions soon, I would like to purchase the vBulletin next week as soon as my worries are allayed.

[Freddie Bingham]

It does not matter when you create the users.

The import takes 5 to 30 mins depending on the amount of posts.

30,000 message won't take much space at all.

I can transfer private forums but I have to open them up for the time period that the import runs on that forum and then close them again.

[bmilder]

Thanks so much. So you do the transfer yourself or is it automated?

[Freddie Bingham]

I direct the script I wrote which actually does the work.