[Paul]

Originally Posted by oldengine

I set up another forum, got its assigned number (21) and placed it into wbb3convert and then imported an additional 735 posts including 238 threads.

I ran "Rebuild Forum Information" before and after converting. After the import, running "Rebuild Forum Information" reducess the above numbers to 547 posts including 238 threads.

I have repeated this process several times with the same results. (I'm getting good at mysqldump and mysql restore!)

It is apparent that the missing posts from board #21 have landed into forum #2. They don't belong there. Why is this happening?

You will have to clear out the values in the originalid column as the post numbers that webbbs uses overlap on seperate forums (for example, foruma.cgi might have a post #423 and so will forumb.cgi). Run a query similar to the following after importing each individual forum:

UPDATE `post` SET originalid = NULL;

I'm not sure if changes to the script to support a direct vb3 conversion would require additional changes.