SMF 1.17 Transfer Members and Posts

[geekincsupport]

Hello,

So here it is. I downgraded my forum to 1.17 so I could use tiny portal. Now I have my website all up and ready yet I came accross a problem. I want to import the members and topics from the old forum into the new one. This is what I did and it should work but I ust can't seem to figure it out and it's driving me nuts.

I droped the current smf_members on the site, then imported the one from the old forum. And it doesn't work yet when I import the one from the new site again it works fine not sure what I am doing wrong. I haven't tried the posts yet is there a way I can restore everything back to my new forum?

I would be really sad if I lost everything if someone could help me with this I would appreciate it.

[IchBin]

Sounds like everything you're needing to do is a question for the SMF people. Not really TP related for forum posts and members.

[geekincsupport]

True, Well I had to re-install my forum because I Wanted to use TinyPortal , So now I cant re install all my forum posts and members!

[G6Cad]

The reson you cant import members and posts from SMF2 to the older SMF 1.1.7 is because they are not made the same way.
It's like trying to put in a Chevy engine in a Mini Cooper
The SMF people have to make you some conveter before this will work.

[geekincsupport]

dang

[geekincsupport]

No one can help me manually?

[ZarPrime]

I believe that the database structure in SMF 2.x is different than it is for 1.1.7.  That's why G6 said that it won't work.  This might be a better question to ask in the SMF forum to see if anybody has ever figured out a way to make it backwards compatible, or to revert to a previous version.

ZarPrime

[geekincsupport]

Ok thanks for your help thought maybe somene here could help me. Not getting very many replies over at smf

[ZarPrime]

If you saved a backup of your database before you upgraded from SMF 1.x to 2.x then you could probably revert fairly easily, but without a backup of the old database, I would say it's next to impossible.  Sorry.

ZP

[JPDeni]

Very few of us use SMF 2.0 at all because of its incompatibility with TP. I've only just glanced at some code from SMF 2.0 myself.