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Ok.. good so far..

Copying my old 4.0 to a new 4.1 then pointing the conversion to the new db got me past the NAMES error and I'm converting now.. crossing fingers..

hopes this helps others migrating older 2.x boards.

Randall

I checked my old db.. it was mysql 4.0 and my new target db is 4.1

I'm copying over my old 4.0 into a new 4.1 db and will try to run the phpbb restore function. perhaps, the issue about 4.0 not dealing with NAMES will go away.. time will tell..

Randall

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