Nope - I haven't forgotten about this at all! So, some of you may want your private messages from LemmingsForums.com transferred to here. I can *partially* do this. Here's the full details:
- I can import your inbox (and other received messages if you have more than one folder). No problems here at all.
- I could theoretically import sent messages, however it's probably slightly easier not to do this - primarily because if that user also gets their received messages imported, it'll most likely result in duplicates. Also, displaying who the message was sent to may be difficult.
- I'm not entirely sure if I can import custom labels, or if they'll all just have to end up in the main inbox.
- I can import PMs even if they're
from a user who doesn't have an account here yet.
- If the old forum had a PM attachment feature at some point (I don't think it did though), I probably won't be able to import these.
- "Conversational View" will most likely be broken; they'll all just end up as individual PMs that aren't linked to any others.
If you would like to import your PMs, please follow these steps:
EDIT: Note; please disable anything you may have (browser extensions etc) that may interfere with the layout, such as custom CSS, GreaseMonkey scripts, etc. If you don't know what these are, you probably don't have any. (Just for reference, AdBlock doesn't interfere with it.)
1) Log in on the
old forum2) Go to Profile -> Account Settings -> Modify Profile -> Look and Layout
3) Set the time format to
%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%SNote: you can skip steps 2 and 3 if your date and times are already displaying in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format4) Go to your private messages
5) Go to Preferences > Change Settings
6) Select "All At Once" for the first option
7) Go back to your inbox
8) Use your browser's File > Save As option (or equivalent) and save as an HTML file; choose "HTML Only" from the dropdown box if that option is there. If you have more than one page of messages, you'll need to do this for each page (but I have set it to display 999 messages per page instead of only 15, so this is unlikely).
9) Repeat steps 5 and 6 for any other folders if you have any (you could also save a copy of your sent messages if you like)
10) Send this file to me via a private means of communication; ie: private message, email, etc. Do
not post them in this topic.
When sending these, please include the following:
a) What browser you used to save the HTML file
b) If you have a custom timezone setting on the old forum, and what that is
c) Whether or not you already have some old PMs restored (from when I restored some from the January 2014 backup)
Just for reference - I'm not going to intentionally read through anyone's PMs, but I may have to view small snippets of them in the case of any difficulties with importing them (just to locate the cause of the problems). If this is problematic, you may want to consider another approach, such as saving as "Complete HTML file" and either storing it on your hard drive (or DropBox / OneDrive / similar) or sending it to yourself as a PM on here, though obviously this will mean they won't be included in your private message inbox here.
It's a known issue that all PMs imported this way appear to come from guests rather than actual accounts. This is something that I will fix sooner or later. If there's any other issues though, let me know.