Converting

[dmknights]

MY wife has a mybb forum & she too is thinking of getting a vbulletin forum aswell as me.

My question is mainly about getting the members & threads over.

Shes not bothered with the current mods or themes shes got at the mo, all she wants to do is get her members & threads/posts transferred. What is the easiest way of doing this?

Ive looked at the impex system, but it looks quite complex so i was just wondering if there was another way of doing it

[dismas]

I had to use Impex when converting my club's forum from PHPNuke to vB. And like you, I thought Impex looked really rather complex. I read through the instructions a few times, made a couple backups of my database, and then followed the instructions step by step and it turned out to be a bit easier than I thought it was going to be. I learned a few things in the process and, for the most part, it went smoothly.

As far as I'm aware, there is no other way to convert from one system to another.

[dmknights]

is there any tips you could give me?

[Lynne]

There is a forum dedicated to Impex over on vb.com. You might want to go read through the posts over there.

[dmknights]

ive read the impex manual. It all looks too complicated

[Videx]

It's not nearly as complicated as the manual may make it look. As I recall it was fairly painless and required virtually no input from me.

It didn't import passwords for me, so I just put up notices that everyone needed to have new passwords sent to them.