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Forgive me, I though I had posted this question, but can't seem to find it so I'll ask again.
I am not ready to go live yet with V7 as I want to get all the styles and other things, like Portal Layout, etc, all set up first. I ran the importer just to test it out and it seemed to work fine. However, once I get all the styles and portal layout such set up, I want to start from scratch and re-import all my data from my old threads, but then I want to have all the new styles I've created again as well as my portal layouts, etc.
How should I go about this? Would this be the right approach:
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The styles has an option to export, use that then after you re-import your forum you can import your style back.
As for settings, most settings are stored in flat files and are unaffected by the database.
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Thanks - How do I kill the data that is currently there so I can re-import? Do I need to drop some tables, all tables? Should I just drop all tables then re-run the install?
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Should I just drop all tables then re-run the install? that one
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you'll want to go in and re-validate all settings after you're doneimporting again.
Basically your to do list: Drop databases. Run "createtables.php" from the install folder. Run your importer Validate all settings Import styles.
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thanks! Thats the list I was looking for. One more question - has teh importer changed with 7.0.2? When I did my original install and import, I installed 7.0, then did the import. I have since upgraded to 7.0.2. Do I use the same importer or is a newer one available?
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I'm not sure if it's changed, I haven't really ran it since beta; but I know it's changed since then... It'd probably be good to snag the latest importer as a just in case though. Also, be sure you export your styles before dropping your databases
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Well, I looked at what they had in the member area and teh file dats have not changed so I used teh imported I used last time and it worked great! Then, after the 6.5 import, I re-imported the styles and also the Portal tables and that all seems to have worked fine. Thanks for the help! Basil
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Not a problem, its why i'm here...well to help and spam lol
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Hey that one wasn't spam, it was meerely being polite hehe
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