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lazydesis · #53 02-26-2009, 06:37 PM

I imported from old vB to new version using Impex, and had the same problem. All threadIDs were different from what they were in my old forum, because I deleted some threads in between.

However instead of using the 404 method, I deleted the "threadid" column in my database and renamed the "importthreadid" column as "threadid"

Now all my threads are having same "threadid" as previous forum

Can anyone tell me if this has any adverse affects or what I did is wrong? Everything seems to working fine and it took me just 5 mins to do this.

What's the advantage of using the 404 method described in this thread?

Thanks.

EDIT: Its actually not working properly. Can someone tell me if its possible to change the new ids with the ones in the importids column and would this work ?

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