My board has over 200,000 posts with 6,000 plus users over 10 forums.

The forum structure of v7 is different than the 6.5.2 that I am currently running.

How can the posts on my v6 be mapped into v7?

The only thing I can think of is FIRST, the import has to be done and THEN the new board can be configured? Am I correct?

Do I need to upgrade to version 7 first and import all my posts and users and then configure v7?


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Basically, the process is you need to do a new install of version 7, electing not to create your first admin user. At that point you need to download the threads import zip for version 7 from the members area, and extrac that into your importers directory. There is a small readme in there that explains the couple steps you need to do at that point.

Thank you, Rick. I am on it

Will the importer work with 6.5.2?

It should work with all of 6.5.x

So the importer isn't included in the version 7 files, but instead is a separate download?

Yes, all of the importers are seperate downloads in the members area. Since once an importer is used it needs to be deleted from the server, we didn't want to include all the importers in the zip file as it would be too easy to forget one of them.

Not to mention its easier to upgrade an importer due to an error than to push out a new install zip for any updates

So I can upgrade from 6.5.5 to version 7 and import into a separate ubbthreads2 folder and database from 6.5.5 in the ubbthreads folder and still leave 6.5.5 and its database fully functional and intact just in case for some reason version 7 doesn't work?

Yep, that is correct.