Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.We're importing a phpbb forum into Drupal. We have 161,000+ posts and 11,000+ users. We have successfully brought over users, posts and avatars into the test environment. But we can't get attachments to migrate. We have the files in the right place on the server and the attachment links migrated over in the Drupal database. We can get new attachments to show up in Drupal-created posts, we're just not seeing them in the old phpbb posts.
Did we miss a step in the migration (the "Migrate Attachments" box was checked)? Could it be something in the html filtering? Any how-to documentation on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Comment #1
snair12 commentedI am also facing this same issue in 5.x-3.0.
Comment #2
naheemsays commentedCan you give more info?
Are the attachments being shown on the nodes, but not working(ie looking in the wrong location)? is the data being inserted into the files table?
Comment #3
naheemsays commentedIs there any update on this?
The required info:
1. Are there attachments showing on the nodes?
2. In the "files" table, is the data pointing to the right place?
3. Is the mapping to nodes correct?
Comment #4
particle commentedWe did find a way round this. I'm really not sure what was causing it as I didn't do the final import. The files folder is 6.5GB and the attachments all work. I don't think there are any duplicate file/folder paths to make the paths correct. We have other issues, but they don't apply to this module anymore.
Comment #5
naheemsays commentedok, setting to closed.
If there was a need for some coding change in the module to make it all work, I would appreciate whoever it is that did the import letting me know. (I have not tested the attachments code at all - the code was supplied by others who said it worked.)
Thanks for the update though. Atleast there was a solution.