Duplicate phpBB importer imports private messages as separate conversations

[K a M a L]

Affected version

latest

phpBB private messages table has root_level column which acts like xenforo conversation_id but the importer ignores that and imports each message as a separate conversation

 

[Chris D]

This is expected, unfortunately. There's a fairly extensive explanation in this post:

As designed - Conversations not imported from phpbb

When running the import from phpbb 3.2, conversations are not imported as conversations but rather as single private messages. PHPBB stores the information about conversations in the phpbb3_privmsgs tables with a parameter called root_level. If root_level is 0 than it is the start of the new...

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