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Old 01-03-2008, 01:56 PM
sev3n sev3n is offline
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Using Impex only to upgrade vbulletin is a non-sense thing. You will corrupt all your internal links, you will lost search engine ranks and you will have a lot of problems with GARS.

I'll try to explain...

The main problem is that every time you deleted a post, a thread, a user or a forum you generated a hole in the index-id column in the mysql tables. Impex will insert your old data rows in a new table with an unpredictable offset.

So the best thing is to follow ragtek's advice.
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