Also my forum got stuck for way too long at the ips upgrade step due to the way mybb wants to update them all one by one and I have a large forum so that's going to take a while so wrote
https://gist.github.com/Zalvie/cdef0eba26a62d2a10b0
if anyone wants it, updates x amount a time.. A thing that took over an hour for some reason took only 22 seconds with that.
still not found a solution.
Do it locally and use something like this:
http://www.wjunction.com/64-webmaster-re...hread.html
DO NOT USE WAMP OR XAMP!
Be sure to update the max packet size, memory and timeout for scripts and just let it run till it's done. The problem is not mybb, the problem is your servers. I can convert a db that's close to 1gb but takes 2 - 3 hrs to do locally and i have no issues.
(2014-11-07, 07:41 AM)Savoy Wrote: [ -> ]I tried it locally and after many retries the forum converted. But it stripped out every non-latin character. I am lucky that it didn't happen to the active forum.
Just for the record, I tried to convert to another system, using their converter and only for testing purposes. the forum converted without any issues. So I don't believe is due to the hosting limits the problem.
from my own experiance the merge system is done in several stages has im sure you knoe has you personally select the next stage of the merge, the upgrade for some reason now seems to run current after each process so running the upgrade oppose to the merge may fall victim to your hosting provider resource abuse limits so fails. Quite alot of shared hosting providers and own server set up defaults to max_execution_time of scripts generally php scripts between 30-60 seconds. If thats the case you need to contact your hosting provider or if its your server possible edit the php.ini file.