A Slight Doubt in Converting Forum
 

Hello,

I am thinking of buying a vBulletin license, and convert my phpBB 3.0.4 to vBulletin 3.8.2(latest version).

However, after seeing the impex converter guide in the help section, I am quite discouraged as it seems that the steps are not mentioned in a step-by-step way.

What I want to ask is, could you please tell me a clear step-by-step way to import using impex?

And, using impex we are only using the phpbb3 database right? so is it okay if the actual phpbb3 forum files are deleted before the import?

Is the actual phpbb3 database 'imported' to another database that the vbulletin will use, or is it 'converted' to a way that vbulletin can use?

please answer this questions, and if you have done a clean import from phpbb3 to vbulletin and succeded, kindly let me know too, so I can be sure that this converting is not a dangerous step.