By Appie on Thursday, 24 September 2015
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Hi,

I want to start over with my site, and make it a multi language site.
If I want to move easysocial is it like this:
1 Copy the media/com-easysocial dir to new setup
2 install easysocial on new site setup
3 Import old database (same easysocial version ofcourse)

Is this the correct way to do this so mine users and albums etc are again as it was in new setup.

Thanks

Appie

No site details I am testing this locally first
hey Appie,

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 old site to new site.

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

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 #__social_*
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 latest EasySocial on your new site.

Then only move all of your image/avatar/data from media/com-easysocial/photos || /media/com_easysocial/avatars from old site to your new site. (if you didn't change the Easysocial default photo/avatar storage path -> screenshot : http://screencast.com/t/sTTzjctxv )

Hope this help.
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