Some problems importing from SMF 1.1.0 TO VB 3.8.4
 

Hi,
I have installed a new VB forum succesfully and connected to the SQL as expected.

I followed the ImpEx instructions to the letter and had mostly success on my first migration test with the script, great!

I am assuming that it is correct to clean install the forum first, then upload the ImpEx script then run the import? (I couldn't find a process list anywhere which determined this)

However, a few issues:

1)I need the 'Display Name' to import to VB as part of the import, this does not seem to be the case and only usernames are shown.

2)All usernames seem to have been prefixed with "imported_" - They don't display like this in the new forum but when requsting my new password I got this message in an email:

"Dear imported_Rich,

As you requested, your password has now been reset. Your new details are as follows:

Username: imported_Rich
Password: ***********"

3) The attachments import was only 5% successful, mainly pdf's, doc's and some jpegs were ok, there seemed to be a lot of files such as '172_100_6194_JPGd4d2349dea40d76c13b4868167f0645f' which didn't convert and also the majority of the 'avatar.png' files.
I did have a problem with some file sizes and got an error relating to 'line 1293' on 'ImpExDatabaseCore.php' - I worked out this was something to do with some of the image file sizes and removed any over 800kb which resolved the import failure but still wouldnt bring the any of the other attachments accross.
I am assuming that the attachments will only import attachments that are relative to posts and not files such as avatars?

4) Some of the import scripts had to be 're-done' as they were demanding for the server to run, as a result I found that I had 3 lots of forums, 3x as many users and 3 times as many posts - even though I selected the 'clean' install when I ran again.

Thats really it for now, I'm going to attempt another go but really could do with some advice on #1 and #2 above if possible?

Thanks;

Rich