By Justin Sturgis on Saturday, 17 January 2015
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I've grown frustrated with the myriad issues I am experiencing on my new Joomla! site, not just with the StackIdeas components, but with pretty much everything installed on the site.

I'd like to completely wipe the current Joomla! install and start fresh with the proper template and no sample data. I can easily do this an not really worried about my current setup and data save for EasyDiscuss. I have well over a hundred questions/discussions in place and I loathe having to re-enter each of those by hand.

Is there an easy method to transfer all of that data to a new Joomla! install? Is it a database action? I'd love some help on this as we were unable to resolve the issues in my other posts.

If there is a solution and it is something like a mySQL dump or something, I would appreciate either a step by step or some other quality direction as this will be my first time performing a task like this. Thank you.
Hello Justin,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. The solution is pretty similar to http://stackideas.com/forums/migrate-easyblog-to-new-website-joomla-2-x-to-3-x but I will list them down below here,

1. Open up PHPMyAdmin tool that is provided by your hosting provider and open up your current site's database.
2. In PHPMyAdmin export all the tables that has the prefix of jos_discuss_*
3. Download the .sql file and save it on your desktop.
4. If your new site's database prefix also uses jos_ , 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.
7. Install the latest EasyDiscuss on your new site
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