Convert from SMF to vb 4.2.2 - Attachments
 

Hi everyone,

For the past few days I've been researching the process to convert my SMF 2.0 forum to vbulletin suite 4.2.2, which I just purchased. I have successfully set up a test forum and converted posts and threads (although the formatting of the imported posts is a mess) and I have imported attachments, but cannot get the attachments to link to the posts. The same is true for avatars. I can see them in the admin section, so I know they are there, but they don't show up in the posts.

I have since read that this is a "bug" with impex (seems like a huge bug....) and have done tons of searches looking for a fix. So far I haven't come up with one.

My question is, what are my options? The forum has over 2000 members and due to the nature of its topic, is very picture-heavy (175,000 posts and at least one-fourth of the posts have at least one and usually multiple attachments). So manually replacing them is not feasible and I really really want this conversion to work! Is there ANY possible way to get these attachments and avatars to reside with the appropriate posts and members?

Thant you for any help. I'm about to start beating my head against walls....

Angie

just a quick question; did you rebuild everything?

WHen i transferred over from smf to vb a couple years ago everything went fine apart from various posts, categories etc not appearing. After rebuilding everything in the maintenance it all seemed to work. As for specifically pictures, I cant say wether this worked or not. Im pretty sure it did, cos we got everything moved over within a couple hours.

Good luck

Matt