UltraBoard 2.2.x importer released!

Please do not contact me via ICQ, Email, PM or anything other way than this thread any more!

Okay... this is my UB2k 2.2.x to vBulletin 2.0.x importer. It can import styles (= skins), users, forums, moderators, posts and private messages.

This Importer has been created for vBulletin 2.0.3! The most things work correctly with 2.2.x (it will import the styles, users, forums, moderators, posts and private messages) but some features like setting new passwords for admins doesn't work. I don't want to create a new version as I don't think there are many UB2k users left who could import...

This script does not work with the vB import system as I wanted to have it independent of the vB directory (some servers are not able to read files in directories like ../../ub2k/). You can upload the script to any directory where you can access the UB2k directory and the vBulletin database.

A manual is in the zip file. Please do not email or pm me if you have questions or found bugs. Please simply answer the thread.

Known bugs:
- On some servers you need to chmod the directory "ubimporter" to 777...

[GameCrash]

step 8 = importing pms
step 9 = cleaning up (deleting temporary files and tables etc.)

You could call step 8 manually (ubimporter.php?step=pms) but then you wouldn't have all posts imported.

ptenthus' problem was simply that there were too many posts so the script collidated with the server restriction. But 30 minutes? Don't think that's the issue. How many threads/posts do you have? What is the url of your forum?

[ptenthus]

Oh, that reminds me...

Thanks GC! You rescued my forums.

I, and about 2200 users, thank you.

Scott K
PT Enthusiasts

[GameCrash]

np

[EMPiRE]

Does anyone ever tested the ubimporter on a Win2K OS?

For it totally fails to work

I have succesfully installed vB, moved the complete UB2K from a Solaris server to the D: drive, started the ubimporter and it results in these errors:

The script first tries to read the *.txt (backup files) from D:/FF/cgi-bin/UB/Private/backups dir but there is no *.txt backup... the backup which exists has a .log extension. I have bypassed this problem by creating a.txt file with the dirname of the backup and it seems to continue...

I have continues leaving everything default. When clicking submit @ importing user this error appears: Can't copy the Accounts.export (this file exists in the backup)

I continue anyway, importing the foums goes ok, importing the moderators fails as there are no users... importing the posts also fails as it can't find the backup dir

So it has something to do with the first error when it can't find any backups!

Can someone help me out?!

[GameCrash]

Well... don't know. Could you try to chmod 0777 every dir and file in the backup dir?

[EMPiRE]

There are no file-rights possible like there are on Unix systems

But I got it to work on Win2K

The problem of not finding the *.txt backup was that I never used an description for the backup, then this *.txt is also not created!

The only thing is on a Win2k system, that you can not import more than 5000 users and posts in 1 go otherwise it will hang (and wait forever)

There is only 1 problem that the new admin pw does not work (as there was also a UB "admin" user?) and I can't seem to get into the control panel...

Any suggestions on how to reset the admin pw?

[GameCrash]

You have to use the "Forgot password"-function. This is necessary for vBulletin 2.2.x as they started using encrypted passwords in this versions...

[mem]

is this script can import all ultraboard upload files ?
if the answer is yes , what should i do? all post import
success , but lost all upload file( *.jpg *.gif.....)

thx

[GameCrash]

No, it does not import attachments...

[TECK]

wow are still out there ub2k boards? impressive..