i KNOW this will sound weird.
and i know it's not often requested,
but here's what i want to do . . .
several months ago, our BBS went from classic to x.
i am aware there is no reverse import through infopop, or that it is 'not on the table'
but our BBS has changed it's central theme
and therefore the name we have used, the location, all of it is no longer applicable or associative.
Collectively, the admins and our users have decided to divorce ourselves from the current based topic
and reconstruct something more in our new vision, so to speak.
and we find that classic, as we remember it, will do more for us in modifications and simplicity.
the rest of the ins and outs that have led up to the decision are largely personal and having to do with personality conflicts, too tiresome to go into here . . .
since we still own classic, we have purchased a domain name, some hosting service, and now want to move the threads and user database there, now residing in .x, as we consider it our history.
i mean, we could start fresh, but we are constantly referring to our beginnings and previous cherished conversations.
we have gone about cleaning up our non-existant users and off-topic posts,
once moved we will clean and prune non-themed categories and threads, and unveil the new design we have been working on.
HOW, do we accomplish classic being able to read/work with x-built threads?
it was suggested to me that we do a MySQL dump
and convert the files to .txt
is this the answer?
and how is this accomplished?
any coding help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated . . .
