Hi guy’s, I sucssesufuly migrated Xenforo DB with 1500 memebr and ~75.000 posts to new servere where is Discourse. One question about attachment… from script I can see that if attachments folder exist then script will do import, my question is where I need to put attac from old server in: a) In D…

You put the files wherever you want that is accessible from the machine doing the import and put that path here: ATTACHMENT_DIR = '/tmp/attachments' If you’re running inside a docker container, and put it under var/discourse/shared/standalone/tmp/attachments then you’d use /shared/tmp/attachment…

Okay Jay thank you for information, I’m just doing clean install this time with attachments folder setup, I will put then in /shared/tmp/attachments and get back here with results. One quick question… is there anyway to import password for account’s too?

Can someone look where is problem? root@my-app:/var/www/discourse# RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec ruby script/import_scripts/xenforo.rb Loading existing groups... Loading existing users... Loading existing categories... Loading existing posts... Loading existing topics... creating users Skipping…

I’ve found it… problem is that a folder containing attachments for import MUST be inside Docker app in patch /var/www/discourse/…/tmp/attachments Now it’s OK script is going on, it will finish in ~1.5h edit: It seems that again import attachments not working… im currently at 78% of import, and in …

If you imported any posts before you properly set the attachment_dir, you’ll need to delete all posts and start the import again.

Unfortunately import is done right now and I dont see in log any information regardings attachments? [2019-11-11%2022_58_28-mc%20%5Broot%40foss-app%5D__]

[image] Migrate a XenForo forum to Discourse Unfortunately import is done right now and I dont see in log any information regardings attachments? [image] pfaffman: you’ll need to delete all posts and start the import again. If you ran the import script and the attachment directory didn’…

I didn’t do that… I’ve runned fresh import with attachments in place.

I don’t think that I can help you here. If you have a budget, please see https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-migration/ Here is my last piece of advice: I’m fairly certain that the attachments are not where the script could find them and that you will need to delete everything and start aga…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 11, 2019, 10:11pm 9

If you ran the import script and the attachment directory didn’t exist it skipped the attachments.

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