Move a thread from one forum to another?

[Simon]

I know this seems kinda strange but is it possible to move an entire thread from one forum to another?

Including all the associated data (I am thinking attachments here) ?

[Sydney]

yes it is.. I think

do you think that something should be moved?

cheers

[Shane G.]

Yes, it can be done.

[Sydney]

any thread that has "moved" written next to it.. has in fact been moved..

cheers

[Simon]

Perhaps I phrased my question poorly:

Can I move a thread, for example, from APFFN to say another Pink Floyd Forum ? Not me per se, but can such a movement of data be accomplished ?

[Bride of a Bull]

Dunno. Ask Paulo. Does APFFN have copyright of all the data at APFFN? Ask Paulo that too.

[Sydney]

why would you wanna do that anyway? I think that *IF* it is possible.. it'd have to be the same software as this.. but that's just my guess..

cheers

[The Piper]

It's not possible, unless you do it manually, which is a real pain in the neck.

About the copyright, APFFN retains copyright on the compilation of all pages in the 'pinkfloydfan.net' domain. Individual authors retain full rights to their individual works, whether stated or not.

[Mother]

Originally posted by Sydney
why would you wanna do that anyway? I think that *IF* it is possible.. it'd have to be the same software as this.. but that's just my guess..

cheers

The only way that could be done, Lej, were if the other if they were both installed in the one directory, running the same software, and one entire forum would have to be written over.

So basically, not practically, no.

[Sydney]

I did say *IF*

cheers

[Simon]

Thanks much fellas!

The real reason I asked was, there was a thread on the victims of 9/11 on one forum and some of the folks on another forum wished to work on the thread (expand it etc.). I was chose as the D-base and complier guy. I had not problems doing it... except that the old thread had already gotten to 36 pages and I was wondering if there was any shorter way to do it...

No matter. Small sacrifice to be paid in terms of time and effort.

Thanks for the contributions anyways people. Big help

[OBSCUREDbyCOWS]

If you can create a dump file from the existing DB you should then be able to transfer the file to another server and use it as an input. Both requires direct access to the DB

[Mother]

They'd have to be the same forum software (ie vBulletin, like here, or phpBB2, or whatever...).

[Sydney]

that's what i thought..

cheers

[DeathTöngue]

Hence the manual part... But since the fields aren't very different (from, subject, body, etc) it wouldn't be all that hard - just really tedious.

Interestingly enough, there's actually a living to be made migrating old databases to newer formats.