Grover
Well-known member
- Affected version
- 2.3.3
Possible bug in vBulletin importer
I am not sure (since I am not technically inclined on this level), but I might have discovered a bug in Xenforo’s vBulletin importer.
@Slavik took care of a test import for us. I am now testing this testboard and I immediately noticed this:
The avatar of my account (administrator) was changed into a photo of Ernie (yes, from Sesamestreet). All other users seemed to have their original avatar, so I thought maybe Slavik played a joke on me. Because my name on this Xenforo.com community is Grover (from… yup).
However, I coincidentally needed to test the permissions of a user that (let’s say) is called “Moderator-test-account-A”. So I went to the Analyze permissions function in the Xenforo testboard. But when I entered this account name, I got confronted with this error message:
“The requested user of could not be found”.
I was puzzled, because I know this moderator test account does exists. I checked my live vBulletin board and yes, this account did exists. However, it was not imported into the Xenforo testboard!
Then I saw that this account on my vBulletin board had the exact same Ernie avatar as well. And I also noticed that this account had the exact same e-mail address as my administrator account. I didn’t use the Moderator test-account for years and years, so I didn’t remember it had an Ernie avatar. And I was also not aware that I myself gave it (years ago) the same email address as the administrator account.
But the odd thing is still, that after my vBulletin board was imported into Xenforo, that the “Moderator-test-account-A” was not imported, but that my administrator account actually got the avatar that belonged to the moderator test account.
Once again, I am not sure if this is a bug, or a glitch in the import maybe. But I assume the first, since both accounts had the same email-address and maybe this causes confusion in the importer?
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I am not sure (since I am not technically inclined on this level), but I might have discovered a bug in Xenforo’s vBulletin importer.
@Slavik took care of a test import for us. I am now testing this testboard and I immediately noticed this:
The avatar of my account (administrator) was changed into a photo of Ernie (yes, from Sesamestreet). All other users seemed to have their original avatar, so I thought maybe Slavik played a joke on me. Because my name on this Xenforo.com community is Grover (from… yup).
However, I coincidentally needed to test the permissions of a user that (let’s say) is called “Moderator-test-account-A”. So I went to the Analyze permissions function in the Xenforo testboard. But when I entered this account name, I got confronted with this error message:
“The requested user of could not be found”.
I was puzzled, because I know this moderator test account does exists. I checked my live vBulletin board and yes, this account did exists. However, it was not imported into the Xenforo testboard!
Then I saw that this account on my vBulletin board had the exact same Ernie avatar as well. And I also noticed that this account had the exact same e-mail address as my administrator account. I didn’t use the Moderator test-account for years and years, so I didn’t remember it had an Ernie avatar. And I was also not aware that I myself gave it (years ago) the same email address as the administrator account.
But the odd thing is still, that after my vBulletin board was imported into Xenforo, that the “Moderator-test-account-A” was not imported, but that my administrator account actually got the avatar that belonged to the moderator test account.
Once again, I am not sure if this is a bug, or a glitch in the import maybe. But I assume the first, since both accounts had the same email-address and maybe this causes confusion in the importer?
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