[CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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Car2013 wrote:
DionDesigns wrote:I have a suggestion that would help if you decide to repeat the convertor process, but I don't want to post it here because people at eToxic (the parent company of forumotion) read this topic regularly, and they would change their code so my suggestion would no longer work. Please read my signature.
Sure. And I already did a contact through there.
I'll wait.
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Please check your Hotmail email address which you provided. An email reply was sent to you two days ago. I am re-sending that reply right now.
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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DionDesigns wrote:
Car2013 wrote:
DionDesigns wrote:I have a suggestion that would help if you decide to repeat the convertor process, but I don't want to post it here because people at eToxic (the parent company of forumotion) read this topic regularly, and they would change their code so my suggestion would no longer work. Please read my signature.
Sure. And I already did a contact through there.
I'll wait.
Thank you.
Please check your Hotmail email address which you provided. An email reply was sent to you two days ago. I am re-sending that reply right now.
Well. Guess what? Hotmail put in the trash. :)
I saw, and I'll answer there.
Thanks.
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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Has anyone made this convert correct
Please help me
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

Post by FireFlight »

I tried again with some adjustments.

Still getting "Failed! Retry in X seconds . . . "

The farthest I get is still 7 pages of emails if I manually save COOKIEDATA ='my_cookie_string'.

Any thoughts, nneonneo?

P.S. I'm using python 2.6.
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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Going to PM for the extra code to DL emails quickly -- needed at least 5 posts to PM you (this is my 5th post :p)
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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FireFlight wrote:I tried again with some adjustments.

Still getting "Failed! Retry in X seconds . . . "

The farthest I get is still 7 pages of emails if I manually save COOKIEDATA ='my_cookie_string'.

Any thoughts, nneonneo?

P.S. I'm using python 2.6.
I'm getting the same error, but using python2.7.

Any suggestions? I just stumbled across this post after over a year of getting complaints about loosing our old forum. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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I do not believe it is possible anymore to export email addresses from forumotion boards using traditional scripts. I'm able to do it, but I use a special technique that I will never post in public nor provide to anyone else. It's, well, outside-the-box...and I don't want eToxic finding a way to prevent it. It's also not free.

My suggestion is to modify nneonneo's script to stop trying to export email addresses, and instead have it generate a null email address (something like [email protected]) for all users. Once this is done, the script should run fine (albeit slowly due to countless HTTP 503 errors added by eToxic).

Every user will need to change their password anyway, so it's not a big deal to have them change their email address at the same time.
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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If i'm able to get all email address in order to a text file ( manual work maybe :lol: ) can you help me to import it in new phpbb3 database ?
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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mrwill wrote:If i'm able to get all email address in order to a text file ( manual work maybe :lol: ) can you help me to import it in new phpbb3 database ?
I suggest that you read the second line in my signature. ;)
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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If i use this converter, do it effect to exisiting forum. I mean can forum down. :) :)
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it won't affect your current forumotion board. all it does is copy things from it to your new phpbb board.


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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

Post by tobse »

I'm also currently planning to move my forum. It's not a forumotion one, but a forumieren, which is the german equivalent. I had to slightly update the scripts to support some german user profile fields, but everything else seems to work out of the box. I only have one issue, which I guess is not related to the language differences:

Every post that contains inline attachment is skipped, while all other posts of the same topic are copied properly. Did anyone encounter this already?

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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

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FireFlight wrote:I tried again with some adjustments.

Still getting "Failed! Retry in X seconds . . . "

The farthest I get is still 7 pages of emails if I manually save COOKIEDATA ='my_cookie_string'.

Any thoughts, nneonneo?

P.S. I'm using python 2.6.
Hello,
I'm having the same problem.
Has anyone found a way to by-pass this email issue? Another converter... anything! Please help!
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

Post by kHRYSTAL »

Why is this not working anymore? Even instructions are changed therefore it doesn't require console cookie copy?
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Re: [CONVERT] Forumotion converter

Post by BaktiStr »

is it still work ??

i got error in getting the member data

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