• Registered: 2008-05-17
  • Posts: 33

Topic: Bulk Move Topics From One Forum To Another

I want to confirm something I've tested.   Before I pull the trigger on a production site I wanted your feedback:

I'm spitting a forum into two.   I want to do a backend DB search so that all topics that contain the word "xxx" in the subject will have the forumID replaced with the new forumID.

From what I understand the topic / post counts will be wonky until people post new threads or on existing threads, correct?

Also, is there a script, plugin, DB query or whatever that will fix the post and forum counts?

Any other ways / suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks!

  • Registered: 2008-05-17
  • Posts: 33

Re: Bulk Move Topics From One Forum To Another

Anybody?   Moving these topics manually is super time consuming... would love to do it on the backend, but am scared that it will break something or majorly screw up the stats / counts.

  • elbekko
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  • Registered: 2008-04-30
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Re: Bulk Move Topics From One Forum To Another

It should be fine to just change the forum ID. And I believe there's a plugin for 1.2 that cleans up the topic count etc.

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  • Registered: 2008-05-13
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Re: Bulk Move Topics From One Forum To Another

Isn't there a function to clean up the count? Or is that just 1.3? If not, you can just call it after your script...

Oh wait, which version are you using?

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  • Registered: 2008-05-17
  • Posts: 33

Re: Bulk Move Topics From One Forum To Another

Thanks guys! I'm on 1.2, so if there is some script, plugin, magic dust I can use to fix my counts, that would be FANTASTIC!

  • Registered: 2008-05-17
  • Posts: 33

Re: Bulk Move Topics From One Forum To Another

Oh, sorry, just re-read elbekko's post.   I'll look for the plugin!