I am trying to convert a BuddyPress group forum set-up to one that uses BBPress. I am following the instructions here and have hit a snag at step 5:

http://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

Progress on the conversion failed after around half an hour. I tried to start it again but it will not restart.

There is an option to “Start a fresh conversion from the beginning” but it also says “You should clean old conversion information before starting over”. Can anyone explain how I do this? I can’t find any details.

[@notpoppy Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

Still trying to find out what the correct was of cleaning out the old conversion information is.

[@notpoppy Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

Well unless anyone has any better suggestions it looks like all I can do is put the old database back and start again.

[@aces Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

Don’t you have another option below:

Alternatively have you tried resetting ( > Tools > Forums )…

[@notpoppy Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

@aces Thanks very much for the reply.

The “reset forum” option indicates that “data will be removed” which doesn’t sound like what I want – that says to me it’s going to get rid of my data, not restore it to what it was.

The “purge previous import” option looks a bit more likely. But when I tried it I got the “Starting Conversion” message with the loading wheel next to it and it stayed that way for about 15 minutes and gave no indication that anything further was happening.

[@notpoppy Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

OK I restored the database from the backup but the conversion failed again. It got about as far as “Converting topics 600” then just hung.

I restored from backup again, this time I set the rows limit to 50 and the delay time to 2 seconds. It got to “Converting topics 700” then hung again.

So my question now is why do my attempts to convert the forum keep failing?

I read @johnjamesjacoby’s post here which is similar to the instructions posted above – perhaps he could shed some light?

My set-up is WordPress 3.5.2, BuddyPress 1.8, BBPress 2.3.2

[@aces Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

@notpoppy

I just found http://tompenney.com/updating-buddypress-legacy-forums-on-multisite-to-bbpress/ is it any help?

My forums converted ok but there wasn’t much material, however I found the above while trying to solve my messed up menu and theme customisation….