phpBB2 ImpEx import will not import avatars

[bailey86]

phpBB2 ImpEx import will not import avatars

phpBB2 ImpEx import will not import avatars.

This is from a vanilla phpBB2 (latest version) to vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/../)
using ImpEx 1.86.

The images/avatars directory is writable by the web server - the correct path is selected.

I have spent 1.5 days looking into this with no luck so far. Next stage is to be looking into the source code and debugging my way through.

This is holding up a very large contract as the forums migration is key to a new major website going live.

Thanks,

Kevin Bailey

[avseq]

anybody can help for this problem? i want to know, same

thank you in advance

[DrSnoCaps]

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm running into the same problem. It appears like the import process builds a link as if the avatar were to be inserted into the new database but that either a) doesn't happen, or b) the link is bad. I can't really tell which.

[Makc666]

The old avatars url of your phpbb forum, like

http://www.server.com/forum/images/avatars/
must be accesable during import.

In other words you must be able to open:

http://www.server.com/forum/images/avatars/asfdsadas.gif
file in your browser during import.

So just move you folder of phpbb to an "old" folder like:

http://www.server.com/forum-old/images/avatars/
and don't forget to set correct path to "old" folder during import.

[Jerry]

This has been fixed, if the user module isn't importing the avatars now, check the path thoroughly, that ImpEx has the full and correct path and that it can read the avatar images from the dir that they are in,