Double Posts Double Posts
It looks like you had trouble converting from UBB to vB. Did you double up members also? I had that problem and found I needed to delete everything from vB and start over again. When I started over I went forum by forum and did the conversion at a SLOW rate so that the process would never stall. The double posts occur after you restart during a stalled conversion.
Rick Horwitz
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Justin S posted this at 21:09 — 5th July 2000.
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It looks like you're correct Rick. But all the Admins are busy around here so nothing gets done too quick. I have lots of time, but don't have the power (AKA: Admin)...
Justin Stayton - [email] [icq]
Denmark 3 posted this at 21:46 — 5th July 2000.
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The double member problem has been fixed it looks like.
JP Stones posted this at 08:50 — 6th July 2000.
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yep, double member post has been fixed. And we have a script to fix the double posts (thanks to some tremendous support from VB John). Patrick will try and run it later today.
JP
Justin S posted this at 19:41 — 6th July 2000.
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Cool. Sounds good...
Patrick A Baer posted this at 23:15 — 7th July 2000.
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Small update:
So far I found out, the MySQL Database doesn't just duplicate the threads, but also give them some new IDs and stuff which makes it even worse.
The only way I can think of is to dump the whole database in flat-text, parse it thru a script and restore the database. Anyway this will result in a small period of approx. one hour when nobody will be able to post. So I'll probably better do it tomorrow morning when all of our US-visitors are asleep
Or is somebody else here having a better idea?
later
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Justin S posted this at 00:43 — 8th July 2000.
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Sounds good to me Patrick, although probably not to you
Thanks for all the help...
Rick posted this at 04:36 — 9th July 2000.
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I already told you what worked for me when I had the same problems
Patrick A Baer posted this at 11:00 — 9th July 2000.
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Rick, do you know how many posts we would lose if I'd just do a fresh import of the UBB data?
Rick posted this at 22:37 — 9th July 2000.
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Ah, yes... You've been running this forum like that for a while. I deleted my double posts and members before I went live.
JP Stones posted this at 11:37 — 19th July 2000.
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righto all done! At last...
JP
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