# Best and most complete importer for SMF2 forum?

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**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** smf\
**Created:** [4월 15, 2015, 1:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-and-most-complete-importer-for-smf2-forum/27595 "2015-04-15T13:28:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [4월 15, 2015, 9:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-and-most-complete-importer-for-smf2-forum/27595/6 "2015-04-15T21:27:43Z")

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PMs aren’t a big deal. That’s why I suggest making a CSV for each member. Or give your members an x amount of time as a grace period before you begin the migration.

Or a combo: make the old site an archive for x amount of time for members to collect PMs. After that time has passed, nuke the site and mysql database. Be sure to add a robots.txt rule for that new archive folder so it isn’t crawled any longer. Push that google juice to the new Discourse digs. 😃

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