I do the modification and the import runs right now. Seems good but I have to wait a while for finish Thanks.

That should be fine. Basically what it does, is it will only import the one topic and then refresh right after it to avoid a browser timeout. 200 is just a number I pulled out of my...um....head, and can probably be much higher.

so my 10,000 post threads should be fine (I think one is around 12,500 posts long at the moment)

Thanks.

It should be. The SQL part isn't really the issue, the queries are very quick, the only problem I've had to work on avoiding is a browser timeout. Only 1 way to find out for sure though is by setting up a test forum for a test run Yours would be a great experiment

My only issue at the moment is upgrading to 6.5.4 - I run 6.5.2 and cannot upgrade until I actually switch.

My only option is to install a duplicate site, and upgrade that.

I am assuming that one can't just set up a beta and then import a 6.5.2 database.

The import will actually work as long as you are at least running version 6.5. So since you are running 6.5.2 you can do just that. Setup the beta and then do the import.

Ok cool Thanks.

I've found through many many imports that you'll probably have better results with the timeout issues if you use firefox. With the newest changes IE will probably be ok, but firefox doesn't time out as badly.

Rick, just FYI the fix worked great, and it imported everything correctly this time.

---Jamin

Thanks for the update Jamin. Good to hear!