XF 1.2 Importing again.. and again

[caliman]

I want to get the importing steps down by repeating them a few times.

On my beta board I imported successfully from vB 3.8.

Today I want to do it again so I deleted attachments and avatars per:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/importing-guidelines.25325/
http://xenforo.com/help/importing/

I want to drop all tables per instructions, but I can't figure out how do so via command line. Can I simply drop the xen database and recreate it?

After the database is cleared out - won't I be logged out? How do I proceed with re-importing at that point?

 

[Paul B]

This thread should be of some help: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/importing-guidelines.25325/

Make a clean master backup and use that to restore from.

I don't believe there is a single command to drop all tables from the command line, they have to be done one at a time.
phpMyAdmin may be easier for that.

 

[caliman]

Thanks. I will make a clean master backup this round. (But I did not originally)
But I am concerned about dropping tables and not being able to login to do another import? Do you know what I mean?

I am starting to think since I did not do the clean backup originally that I just wipe out my xen directory, reinstall, add add-ons, do a clean master backup... then proceed to import.

 

[Paul B]

But I am concerned about dropping tables and not being able to login to do another import? Do you know what I mean?

Once you restore the backup database there will be no issue as your account will already exist.

 

[caliman]

That makes sense. I am starting over and doing this right. Thanks