I started to look into attempting to migrate profile fields to bio's cck fields by using phpMyAdmin and SQL commands....what a nightmare! Especially because I am not a coder and don't know SQL much.

I fumbled my way thru some of it but since you have to add values to the bio table, the node table and then your content_type_bio table, it's a nightmare...especially with the 750 users I have.

I hate the core profile module more and more every day and wish desperately to get away from using it. I am liking Bio more (due to editablefields and views and panels) but I have a tonne of data that I have to get out of the core profiles that I just can't abandon. Is there any tools to help migrate profile fields to Bio's fields?

I'd need a nice User Interface to do it and I envision it showing you your profile fields on one side and the Bio CCK fields on the other and allowing you to match them up...and then generate the Bio node for that user and populate the fields.

Sounds simple...if you can code! :)

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I'm sorry, but this is going to have to be a "won't fix".

It's fairly complex to write something robust enough to handle all of the possibilities, and then support all of the user questions that follow. It's fairly short work for a PHP coder to do quick-and-dirty migration work, or you can try exporting from phpMyAdmin and then using something like node_import. The cost/benefit for you to hire someone and/or do this yourself and/or edit your users manually will depend on how many profiles you have to migrate :)

Hopefully you're sorted yourself out in the past 13 months :)