Yay! First post! :slight_smile: I’m migrating a forum from XenForo (1.5), and I’ve noticed that images are not coming through. Instead, the imported posts just have [ATTACH=full]3762[/ATTACH] or [GALLERY=media, 1076]Photo by User posted Sep 28, 2018 at 8:24 PM[/GALLERY] What is the best way to …

Hey @edL . Welcome to Discourse. I’m sorry to report this, but the Xenforu importer doesn’t support attachments or Gallery images. You’ll need to modify the importer yourself to add support or hire a developer. If you are not afraid of a little Ruby (I wrote a couple importers before I really knew R…

Thanks, Jay – I’ll have a look at the importers you mentioned and see how I can extend the XF importer. On a slight tangent, it seems strange to have each importer as a completely standalone script, even though each one is broadly doing the same thing. Has anyone considered consolidating them into …

[image] edL: it seems strange to have each importer as a completely standalone script, even though each one is broadly doing the same thing. What started this conversation is that at least two people who are importing from exactly the same forum software needed something completely different.…

Ok, so it looks like the vbulletin and vannila-mysql importers just strip the attachments out, but the answerbase importer actually supports them. As far as I can tell, it captures the file path from the post body, creates a new discourse upload and replaces the tag in the imported post with the htm…

I don’t really need something ‘completely different’ just a bit richer. The script as it is works well and provides a good starting point – it’s certainly not worthless. I just figured tweaking a config file would make more sense than modifying the script. I’ll have a look at the phpbb importer …

I generally use method two. Method one has some appeal, and I often consider it but I think I’ve always done it the other way. [image] edL: it’s certainly not worthless Well, “worthless” may be hyperbole, but only if you’re a programmer. And often issues can’t become apparent until you’ve r…

Awesome! Glad you got it sorted.

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edL (Ed Lepedus) May 9, 2019, 2:11pm 8

I got it working and submitted a PR with the modified xenforo.rb import script

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