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We have just sucessfully merged two live, active VB systems into one user database. It was a real pain in the ass, and it really is only viable in specific instances.

What we had to do, in a nutshell:

Merge site A with Site B with Impex... so now you have one big, fat, unified site. I copied the mysql database from the new mega-site B into the old Site A and deleted everything from Site B that I did not want in site A. All this was done after this hack was completed on site A.

The limitation of this is one of the sites (in this case, Site B) had no posts on Site A from the users on Site B. So all the Site A users and posts are imported into Site B, and posts are kept intact.

If you want/have to merge both sites and both sites are sharing posts/users in BOTH directions, you're screwed because of the way VB stores threads and individual posts (by user number). This method will ONLY work if one site can be imported into the other, then split from there. It's a major pain.

Anyway ... what I'd like to do now is be able to move/transfer threads between the two sites now ... I don't think there is a hack for this yet (why would there be?) ... but does anyone know if there is, and if not, what exactly is involved in transfering a thread from one site to another?