How would I go about transferring all account data from a old forum to a new one?
Please help.
Make a backup of mybbusers table, private message, posts, threads etc and then upload it on your new forum.
Or better idea make backup of all tables and upload it on new forum.
Do you just mean user accounts or do you mean posts, threads and private messages?
(2012-04-11, 08:59 PM)euantor Wrote: [ -> ]Do you just mean user accounts or do you mean posts, threads and private messages?
Just user account data, that's all.
Then just export mybbusers table and import it in your new forum database.
mybbusers table is maybe called different on your host it depends on your database prefix.
(2012-04-11, 09:07 PM)JovanJ. Wrote: [ -> ]Then just export mybbusers table and import it in your new forum database.
mybbusers table is maybe called different on your host it depends on your database prefix.
It's not as easy as that - it would result in duplicate user IDs if it even worked (which it wouldn't seeing as UID is the primary key).
What you'll have to do is use the Merge Tool to merge the two databases:
http://wiki.mybb.com/index.php/Running_the_Merge_System
(2012-04-11, 09:12 PM)euantor Wrote: [ -> ] (2012-04-11, 09:07 PM)JovanJ. Wrote: [ -> ]Then just export mybbusers table and import it in your new forum database.
mybbusers table is maybe called different on your host it depends on your database prefix.
It's not as easy as that - it would result in duplicate user IDs if it even worked (which it wouldn't seeing as UID is the primary key).
What you'll have to do is use the Merge Tool to merge the two databases: http://wiki.mybb.com/index.php/Running_the_Merge_System
On my local i tryed it like that and it worked perfect
That's odd. If it works, then fair enough. I'm pretty sure it shouldn't work, but oh well.
How exactly do I do this? I don't want to mess up anything on the site.