Question Not a new installation - not a migration

We have a 1.5 Kunena forum installed on a Joomla 1.5.22 site
We are in the process of re-styling our site to a Joomla 1.6 site and want to "port" the content of the existing 1.5 Kunena forum to the new site (we don't want to loose any fourm content of course)

In the past (when going from one Joomla 1.5 to another Joomla 1.5 release) we copied the Kunena jos_fb tables from the old database to the new one, together with the user data and it worked.

Since there is so much changed in the data structure we wonder how to best proceed in this situation.

This is not a fresh install of Kunena 1.6.3 (it is one but we need the "old" data imported with user data that goes with it)
It is not a migration since we are sitting on another site (with Joomla 1.6 installed)

Any advice would be welcome (a link to the correct place would be welcome as we don't yet see it in the board or the documentation).

G'day, benjoom, and welcome to Kunena.

I'm sorry but I'm going to disappoint you.

benjoom wrote: We have a 1.5 Kunena forum installed on a Joomla 1.5.22 site
We are in the process of re-styling our site to a Joomla 1.6 site and want to "port" the content of the existing 1.5 Kunena forum to the new site

You can't port/copy/transfer/whatever K 1.5 data and software to J! 1.6 and that's the end of that. I don't see much point in discussing this topic further.

g'day indeed, thx for the fast reply.

does your answer implies that every existing 1.5 Kunena currently running under Joomla 1.5 is "doomed" to stay on Joomla 1.5 ? (and that if the owners want to upgrade to Joomla 1.6 for whatever reason - they have to drop and forget all existing forum content ??)

if that is the case then that is bad news (in my opinion)

benjoom wrote: does your answer implies that every existing 1.5 Kunena currently running under Joomla 1.5 is "doomed" to stay on Joomla 1.5 ? (and that if the owners want to upgrade to Joomla 1.6 for whatever reason - they have to drop and forget all existing forum content

K 1.5 is doomed and that's a fact. K 1.5 is stuck in a time warp and the only way out is to upgrade to K 1.6. That's the message that we've consistently been trying to give to K 1.5 users and most K 1.5 users have listened and taken action.

If you think that upgrading from K 1.5 to K 1.6 on J! 1.5 is difficult let me reassure you: migrating J! 1.5 to J! 1.6 without upgrading your Joomla extensions to be compatible with J! 1.6 is impossible. K 1.5 is not compatible with J! 1.6. One of the design objectives for K 1.6 was to make it compatible with J! 1.6 to facilitate those J! 1.5-to-J! 1.6 migrations.

Summmary:

Upgrade to K 1.6. Wait until J! 1.6 is stable and that there is a clear, reliable, proven migration tool. J! 1.6 is not 100% reliable at this time (and K 1.6 is unuable to be made 100% compatible with J! 1.6 at this time because of the things that are missing in J! 1.6) and there is no reliable, dependable procedure for migrating J! 1.5 sites to J! 1.6 sites at the moment.