UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads Installation and Upgrade Support Endless loop upgrading from classic

I am upgrading from 6.7.2 classic to 7.0.1 threads, and everything was going smoothly - I have a rather large board, so left the upgrade script on overnight. All tests passed during the 7.0.1 installation and the initial upgrade screens.

In the morning I found that the upgrade script was looping on a single thread - the numbers in the URL kept increasing but the text still said "importing thread xxx..."

Inspecting the MySQL database revealed that the script was creating blank entries (POST_BODY was empty, PARENT_ID was 0, USER_ID was 1) for this thread. I stopped the script since we were getting nowhere.

I know this post might be too vague for anybody to help, but I can provide more specific info as needed. Can anybody help?

That's a tough one. Did it give the title of the thread it was importing? If so, is there anything special about it in classic, number of replies, etc?

Yes, the title was displayed... Also what's crazy is that I did a search for a thread with that title on my old board, but nothing came up.

Hmm, you might try rebuilding the various metadata. The importer will just read all of the files in the forum directories. If it's not coming up when you search for it perhaps it's corrupt and the forum can't read it. Beyond that if we can get the full url that you see when it does this perhaps we can isolate it down to a single forum.

I ran into a similar issue with an import today. It was a corrupt topic, but a small change should get around it. Line 1328 of classic_import.php looks like this:

if( $curr_post == $this_post_count ) {

Change that, to this:

if( $curr_post >= $this_post_count ) {

Well I had rebuilt all the metadata right before the upgrade, just in case. Will try again with the fix you suggested.

It worked, thanks Rick!