questions about converting from ezboard to phpbb

[waking believing running]

i have some questions about converting from ezboard to phpbb.

will it transfer all the members accounts?
also, it will transfer the forums and posts, is this right?

and what is this i hear about having to give all members a certain password to log in to the new forum initially?

* i'm also curious if anyone has any examples where this is successful. like a phpbb forum that was converted from ezboard?

thanks in advance....

[Draknek]

will it transfer all the members accounts?

It will create accounts, but none of their information will be transferred.

it will transfer the forums and posts, is this right?

Yes, but you have to convert each forum individually.

what is this i hear about having to give all members a certain password to log in to the new forum initially?

All new accounts that are created are given the same initial password. If you trust your users not to take other people's accounts, you can just tell them what it is; otherwise, you can have them contact you privately for a new password to be assigned.

[waking believing running]

i have another question about this...

if i take all my topics on my ezboard and split them up into only one or two forums, can i just convert them all at once to phpbb? instead of each forum individually? once i have them moved, then i can sort them out into different forums. i honestly have no problem doing that....would just like to get it converted as quickly as possible.

[Draknek]

Yes, that's possible.

Just remember that ezBoard only stores 20 pages worth of topics, so moving more topics than that into one forum will cause them to be deleted.