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The last synch step is bugging me out..

Failed: Please enter a valid Username:. No spaces, more than 2 characters and contain 0-9,a-z,A-Z

I only have 76 users of about 500 imported.. it won't do them all, and that is the error message i get. :(

User number 76 is called administrator and is definately the default administrator. Seems it couldnt overwrite it or something and stopped with a silly error message.

I believe there are some user data in SMF that uses characters that are invalid to mambo.

Right now, all I can advise is for you to check the SMF member table and see which user might be causing it. Check for funky looking usernames.

lol was just editing my post to add that number 76 is admin :)

I had the same problem when I tried to sync.

The problem turned out to be the member AFTER the one it reported as being a problem as that user had only 2 letters as a username.

Once I changed the username to three letters and re-sync'd, it went without a hitch.

It now complains:

Failed: This e-mail is already registered. If you forgot the password click on \"Lost your Password\" and new password will be sent to you.

I tried this query

SELECT count(  *  ) ,  `emailAddress`
FROM  `smf_members`
GROUP  BY  `emailAddress`
HAVING count(  *  )  > 1;

And got zero rows. What gives?

That was another problem that I had with sync.

I had a test account in SMF and one in Mambo. It turned out that I had used slightly different usernames but had used the same e-mail address so the sync thought they were different people with the same e-mail.

Once I changed the test account usernames to be EXACTLY the same, the sync worked fine.

Hope that helps.

I think my synch went without a hitch.

What's the best way to check that all of my SMF members are now Mambo members?

You can use phpmyadmin for that.. or just check your backend usermanager ;)


Me? im -still- cursing.. it won't synch :(

Your error is about a duplicate email. You're syncing an SMF user w/c email is already in mambo. Do you know how to query it manually?

The only user in mambo was administrator with a unique email adress, i never registered that email on the VB that converted to SMF.

That one existing user in Mambo was deleted by me too.. I EMTIED the usertable of mambo.. it was entirely empty.. (strange thing is that i held my non existing session in the backend lol).. but even then it didn't synch..