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[hdraye]

Hi
Have anyone noticed that if you search for whatever word in 2.x forum, you will get same answer:no results found?

I am trying to import data I exported from indexu, but only importing categories work, but not links.
I have done this several times before, but now it wont.

Any ideas please?

[dody]

How do you do export/import? And which version?

By using phpmyadmin it might be easier.
1) do fresh install with clean new db
2) with phpmyadmin, export db (data only)
3) then switch to new db, import using data from step 2.

If both use the same indexu version. It should be work very well.
Technically the above steps will work because there is not much change in database among the version. The database structure is created using indexu installation, then using phpmyadmin to insert the data.

[hdraye]

Thanx Dody
I think now I know why, but then thats another problem and a strange one too
in my old database, I have the charset is set to latin_swidish, while its originally in Arabic.
it shows ok on website, but as I wanted to move domain from one server to another, it will not show right no matter how I export/import or backup/restore.

I thought the exporting of table would solve this, and it was a yes and no solution.
The categories table works fine and shows fine, but the links table gets garbled, even if I open the sql files in any text editor, the 2 files show different results.

[dody]

It is the character problem? If so, make sure to set html charset (not db) to the same charset with the old website.

[dody]

It is the character problem? If so, make sure to set html charset (not db) to the same charset with the old website.

[hdraye]

It is the character problem? If so, make sure to set html charset (not db) to the same charset with the old website.

Thats what I did, but I still get question marks rather than arabic text
If I try to restore from within indexu, I get the memory allocation error, althogh memory is set in whm to 256

[dody]

Import back using indexu is not recommended if you have big database. It load the file at once instead of read per byte like phpmyadmin.

If I'm not mistaken, when you export data using phpmyadmin to save to a file, it will be written in ansi/ascii code.
When import back to new db, try to set charset to 'ascii'.

Another method, I usually use bigdump script to import back large database. Please try it.

http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump/