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[Rob Pomeroy]

Pah.  Send 'em all a core dump bomb.  

[Computer Hope Admin]

Pah.  Send 'em all a core dump bomb.  

Woe is me, I must be legit can't be doing stuff like that.

By the way, what's up with http://pomeroy.dyndns.info/ been getting timeouts.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Well unfortunately the conversion to the new forum failed after trying multiple attempts. I'm making the forums live again while I attempt to work this out with the SMF. Would be nice if I could get this resolved this weekend, but not going to give an ETA to when the new forum will be live.

[dl65]

Morning Nathan,
Just remember the old saying.......  "Cheer up she said, things could be worse...... So I cheered up and sure enough things got worse"

But seriously, it will happen.

dl65  

[Computer Hope Admin]

Yeah it was to be expected. Most conversions never seem to go smoothly.  :-/

[Rob Pomeroy]

http://pomeroy.dyndns.info/ been getting timeouts.

My ISP disappeared into a black hole for 10 hours...

Well unfortunately the conversion to the new forum failed after trying multiple attempts.

Told ya to take it slow, didn't I!  

Seriously, if I can be any help, let me know.

[Zylstra]

Well unfortunately the conversion to the new forum failed after trying multiple attempts. I'm making the forums live again while I attempt to work this out with the SMF. Would be nice if I could get this resolved this weekend, but not going to give an ETA to when the new forum will be live.

There is more than one conversion tool, if you havent already, you might want to find another.

Try using the SMF help forums, and ask what the issue might have been, and tell them your amount of members and topics, and then see what they say is the best one to get.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Seriously, if I can be any help, let me know.

If there was some way you could I would ask. But think it's up to SMF team or someone familiar with the conversion process to assist me further. Thanks for the offer as well.

There is more than one conversion tool, if you haven't already, you might want to find another.  

Yep, tried multiple versions. Best luck so far has been with the latest version on the forums, but still seems to get stuck.

Try using the SMF help forums

Have a post going just waiting on replies.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=122338.msg1021004

I think I may be encountering a MySQL quota issue, because it appears to keep getting stuck around the same spot. So working it out with host. Converting to flat file to MySQL takes a lot more space than I was aware of and not sure of my quote is transparent on the MySQL server.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Well it's now been 24 hours thought I'd do another update. I've made a little progress as far as being able to get the members and boards to get transfered over. But for some unknown reason I'm unable to get the posts to properly transfer. The board says they're there but not one can be displayed. So work still in progress maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow or the conversion I run before going to sleep will some how pull through.

[Computer Hope Admin]

Forums will be going down again tonight (3/24/2007) within the hour. Going to try running a full conversion again after completely starting over and because I've already done this once today going to try it with the forums in maintenance mode again. Sorry for the inconveniences and short notice.

[Zylstra]

Did you run the maitenence tools to see if it could correct the issue?

[CBMatt]

Forums will be going down again tonight (3/24/2007) within the hour. Going to try running a full conversion again after completely starting over and because I've already done this once today going to try it with the forums in maintenance mode again. Sorry for the inconveniences and short notice.

No worries, it'll give me a chance to actually focus on my schoolwork.  Heh.  Good luck with the conversion!

[Zylstra]

Hopefully it will work this time.

The forums certainly need to be changed if it cant handle the amount of users.

[Dilbert]

Good luck, Nathan!

[Computer Hope Admin]

Well thanks again for the words of encouragement. Unfortunately I've put in another 12 hour day and still have not been able to get this conversion to go through and still no feedback from SMF. Because I've tried everything I could possibly think of and even some additional drastic things to get it to just go through I believe I'm at the point right now just to wait until SMF gives me a possible solution and/or another conversion file to try.

One of the drastic things I tried to do to help get the conversion through was disable and get rid of all the current file attachments. All file attachments were however saved offline and if I can get the conversion to go through I'll move whatever file anyone wants back online. But for now file attachments will remain disabled on the forums. Read lots of posts how file attachments caused issues and was up to around 75MB of attachments.