XF 2.1 Having some trouble with an import...

[Sal Collaziano]

I just imported from vBulletin 3.8.11 and all seemed to go well until I got a blank screen at the finalization...

Server error log

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• ErrorException: Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4718592 bytes)
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• src/XF/Db/AbstractStatement.php:140

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• Generated by: Administrator
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• May 5, 2020 at 6:22 PM

Stack trace
#0 [internal function]: XF::handleFatalError()
#1 {main}

Request state
array(4) {
["url"] => string(26) "/admin.php?import/finalize"
["referrer"] => string(55) "https://myforums.com/admin.php?import/run"
["_GET"] => array(1) {
["import/finalize"] => string(0) ""
}
["_POST"] => array(0) {
}
}




If I refresh, I get another error in the log...

• 
  
• ErrorException: Fatal Error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4718592 bytes)
• 
  
• src/XF/Db/AbstractStatement.php:140

• 
  
• Generated by: Administrator
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• May 5, 2020 at 6:48 PM

Stack trace
#0 [internal function]: XF::handleFatalError()
#1 {main}

Request state
array(4) {
["url"] => string(26) "/admin.php?import/finalize"
["referrer"] => bool(false)
["_GET"] => array(1) {
["import/finalize"] => string(0) ""
}
["_POST"] => array(0) {
}
}


I manually rebuilt search, forums and threads - but nothing is showing up. No forums - so no threads, posts. Anything I can do besides restart the import?

 

[Paul B]

How much memory is available on the server?

It looks like it's set at the minimum of 128MB.

Try increasing it to at least 256MB.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

How much memory is available on the server?

It looks like it's set at the minimum of 128MB.

Try increasing it to at least 256MB.

I'll raise the PHP memory and give it another shot tomorrow. Thank you...

 

[Sal Collaziano]

I managed to get everything working manually. It was easy enough to delete duplicate forums and threads from the previous attempt at migration. However, every user was also duplicated... I imagine there's no way to undue that - am I right? I still need to start over, I imagine...

 

[Paul B]

Yes, you need to start over.

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