7.0.1 Migration tool

Anyone know if the migration tool is still functional in 7.0.1?

ie migrate from 6.1.6 > 7.0.1

/DM

It should, but it doesn't hurt to make a test installation and see for yourself.

It's a test installation for my D6 site - I've decided to finally look at migration now that 7.0.1 has been released.

For the most part the migration seems to be working fine, but I have encountered an error - there was an apostrophe in an article title which caused an SQL error - I've remedied this by renaming the article (D'OH! - LOL), but now do not know if the transfer will automatically continue from where it left off

Looking in the databasethe bx_data_migration_transfers table shows articles as 'started' anyone know if the migration continues automatically?

Thanks in advance

/DM

The only thing in it I have been having trouble with is photos ...for some reason it runs out of memory every time ...It says its trying to resize some photos somewhere around line 493 i think.

I'm also having an issue with photos - it just seems to hang about halfway through processing them. Not sure why yet.

/DM

My issue seems to be related to image size - the last image processed is huge - I know from past experience that GD_lib can have problems with large / very high resolution files. I've resized all the large images and will give it another shot.

BigBird, have you tried increasing the memory limit via php.ini / htaccess? It should be set to 128M or more.

/DM

OK - anyone know how to restart the transfer process without deleting all of the photos?

/DM

There is no way to continue from migration process - you need to start it from the scratch again.

i have looked through it and cannot find it in .htaccess and do you have a php.ini script i could try...

I do the website on my free time which i dont have much of atm...lol

Just to update - All images now processed okay.

BigBird - You may not find anything there - but you may be able to add an override if your memory_limit directive is set lower than that required. To do this, you will first need to check how php is running on your server - you can do this via phpinfo (you can also check your current memory limit there too)

If PHP is running as a CGI script you will need to either update your servers php.ini file (just search for the memory limit directive and change it accordingly) or if you do not have direct access to this (unlikely if you are not on a dedicated server or VPS), you should add a php.ini file to your root folder, and add the following line to it.

memory_limit = 128M

if PHP runs as normal you should add the directive to your htaccess - like so

php_value memory_limit 128M

There are some caveats however - you may not be able to use either method - it depends on your host and server configuration. If you can use one of the methods, you may also find that the results do not recurse through all of the folders below the root - again this depends on server configuration - you may be able to overcome this by adding additional files - but in reality it is better to try and get your provider to increase the limit globally.

HTH

/DM