By Troy T. Hall on Wednesday, 17 June 2015
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Mark, how do I export a clients easyblog ( joomla 1.5 ) and import it into easyblog 5 on joomla 3.4.1?
we'd like to keep all the authors, dates, etc if possible.
Thanks.
Ideally, it's best that you create an export dump through phpmyadmin and export the tables over. Here's the general guideline that you could use and it is also what we used previously when we migrated from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3.x.

*Backup your data first before perform migration
*Migrate all the Joomla 1.5 user to Joomla 3.x first using 3rd party extension (make sure all the user id is same as Joomla 1.5)
*Don't Install Easyblog in your new site.

1. Open up PHPMyAdmin tool that is provided by your hosting provider and open up your current site's database.
2. Make a sql dump for all the tables that has the prefix of #__easyblog_*
3. Download the .sql file and save it on your desktop.
4. If your new site's database prefix also uses the same prefix , then you can skip this part. However, if you are using a different database prefix, you'll need to edit the .sql file that you've just downloaded, and do a search and replace of jos_ with your new database prefix.
5. Open your PHPMyAdmin and this time, open up your new site's database.
6. You should see an import link at the top. Click on that, and click on browse. Select the .sql file and click the run import button.
Note : 7. Install the EasyBlog 3.9 version first on your new site Joomla 3.x If you don't have this versions you can provide me with your email address so I can send it for your.

**migrate additional - if your blog post have including the image file, you have to do this step as well.
That was to copy over the image and media files associated with EasyBlog (e.g. the "/images/easyblog_avatar", "/images/easyblog_images", "/images/easyblog_shared", and the "/media/com_easyblog" folders and all of their contents).

After finished migrate and update easyblog to 3.9. Please test your easyblog first whether got a bug/issue or not.

If you already finish test your easyblog 3.9 and don't have any bug or issue, you can proceed to install the EasyBlog 5 on your site.

Looking forward for your reply.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2015 15:55
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Hi there,

I am in the process of making a new website and I have many blogs on an old site that need to be transferred.
AS far as I Understand the only way is :
1: dump existing site easyblog tables
2: import tables in new site DB
3: install easyblog 3,9 on new site
4: upgrade easyblog 3,9 to 5

Isn't this a little crazy? Why did you guys did not think of a way to export blogs to import them in a different easyblog website or location ?
PLease advice ....

Patrick
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Sunday, 04 October 2015 15:52
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Hey Patrick,

Yes, this is currently the way to update from 3.x to 5.x. The problem is we do not have an "import" tool which allows you to import from 3.x as there are images in blog posts and there's really no way to automate this
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Sunday, 04 October 2015 16:07
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Ok .. so could you please send me the 3.9 version ? ... You could have at least left it available on your site and prepared a document for people wanting to migrate ... really ..
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Sunday, 04 October 2015 16:58
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Hey Patrick,

Sure, what is your email address? I will send this over to you but really, you don't have to install EasyBlog 3.9 once you have exported the database over.
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Sunday, 04 October 2015 17:06
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Hey Mark.

I am following the process through doing the migration. So far so good :-)

I am at the point where I need version 3.9.

email address please use holden.at.jerji.dot.com
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Friday, 15 January 2016 08:23
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Hey lan,

I already send Easyblog 3.9 installer in your email, can you give it a check and see how it goes?
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Friday, 15 January 2016 12:33
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