Migrating from MT 2.63

[Dr. Loveless]

I am trying to move my current blog from MT 2.63 to s9y 0.8.5 and am having problems. I have loaded the extended properties plugin and exported data from MT, but when I go to import I get an "Import failed" message.

It seems to start creating authors, but goes no further than that.

Any suggestions of how to solve this problem?

[garvinhicking]

Hm, are you getting any specific error messages?

The MT importer in Serendipity 0.9 has been reworked and includes debugging output; you may want to try that. You can use the importer of 0.9 in your 0.8 environment if you just download this file:

http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/*checkout ... pe.inc.php

Now also please enable debugging output to spot some errors, or report them to us.

How large is your MT export file? If it exceeds a certain size of your PHP upload or memory limit, it might need to be imported in several chunks...

Best regards,
Garvin

[Dr. Loveless]

Hm, are you getting any specific error messages?

The MT importer in Serendipity 0.9 has been reworked and includes debugging output; you may want to try that. You can use the importer of 0.9 in your 0.8 environment if you just download this file:

http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/*checkout ... pe.inc.php

Now also please enable debugging output to spot some errors, or report them to us.

How large is your MT export file? If it exceeds a certain size of your PHP upload or memory limit, it might need to be imported in several chunks...

Around 5MB in size, 2600 entries. I'll try breaking it up. Any suggestions for that?

[Dr. Loveless]

Oops, forgot to ask. Where do I put the importer code?

I am very new to your software and php.

[garvinhicking]

Sorry, I forgot to mention. Just put the importer code to overwrite the existing include/admin/importers/moveabletype.inc.php file!

Best regards,
Garvin