The vbulletin importer currently includes only attachments that are included in [attach] tags in the text of the message. But sometimes there are attachments not included in the text, and they don’t get imported.
I’ve fixed this with a function that after posts are processed, reads all the attachments, uploads them, replaces the [attach] codes, and if the attachment was not mentioned in the text adds a link to it at the end of the post.
The problem is how to avoid re-uploading and including them with subsequent runs of the importer. My current solution is to put <div class="vbulletin-attachments-imported"></div> at the end of the post and to check for that string before handling attachments.
It works, but is there a more elegant way? (And, I suppose if I were more clever, I’d have a solution that did this on a per-attachment rather than per-post level, but it’s hard to imagine that such a feature would ever be used.)
