Comments on: More success converting from CommunityServer to vBulletin

By: brian

brian — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:02:13 +0000

@Digital Doctor: I share your frustration. I don’t know why they didn’t incorporate the changes. They were responsive to me for a while, then they said “OK, we can’t help any more, we’re moving on to other tasks.” Sad, because there is a significant potential market in CS to vB.

By: Digital Doctor

Digital Doctor — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:47:04 +0000

Hi Brian,
I’ve mentioned your previous Community Server IMPEX improvements in this thread. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/371129-Migration-from-Community-Server-2007
I’ve tried to migrate my Community Server 2 … Not much Luck. I don’t think vBulletin ever incorporated your suggestions.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:16:22 +0000

Hi Brian,

Would you by any chance be able to bundle up your ImpEx modifications and send them to vBulletin sales/support so that users such as us could get access to them? We are looking to migrate a large quantity of Community Server users and posts to vBulletin, and would be grateful if you could allow the distribution of your modifications through vBulletin sales/support?

Please feel free to contact me on this e-mail address if you would like to take this discussion further privately.

Thanks,
- Tom.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:13:39 +0000

Hi Brian,

Thank you for the reply and the info. That would be very useful! Glad to hear you’re still using vB.

I hope vB do decide to allow you to post your files to vB.org or another vB community site.

Let us know how you get on, I’m sure there are still a lot of people who want to use vB and import from CS.

Thanks!
- Tom.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:50:25 +0000

I am definitely still using vBulletin, happy to have moved off CommunityServer — vB is far superior.

I don’t know if they ever incorporated my ImpEx changes. I will download the most recent ImpEx and look…

Nope, changes aren’t there. I will ask the vB guys if they’ll allow me to publish my ImpEx files for CS onto vBulletin.org or some place where only members can access.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:27:47 +0000

Hi Brian,

I understand this blog post is a bit out of date, but I was just wondering if vBulletin had taken your modifications to the ImpEx utility and incorporated them into their distributed ImpEx build?

I’ve been looking – albeit for a while now – for definitive answers on exactly what versions of Community Server vBulletin can import from, and what objects can be imported (e.g. posts, threads, users, forums at least – which is all we care about. Permissions, attachments, private messages don’t matter to us.)

Would it be possible for you to shed some light on this if you are still using vBulletin or have your ImpEx scripts? I understand it is 2 years on, but you still blog so I thought I’d send you a message.

Thanks,
- Tom.

By: MichaellaS

MichaellaS — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:57:33 +0000

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:15:26 +0000

im sorry its like 1.4 gig. im not sure if that is considered too big.
if so, then i would not want to burden you with the job or the hassle.
i will see if i can get a free host or some other way. if not i will seek your help with that regard.
i really appreciate the offer

By: brian

brian — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:49:45 +0000

Hah, and all from blog comments.

Hostgator doesn’t support MSSQL. How big is your database? If it’s not too big I may be able to it on a shared hosting account I have temporarily, so you can do your vBulletin migration and then we can be done with it.

Shoot me an email with more info: bdemarzo@gmail.com.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:56:16 +0000

Thanks Brian,
i’ve gotten more help from you than hours of digging on google, and begging on Vbulletin forum.

my vbulletin is hosted with Hostgator.