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I am in hell. Does anyone know of any way to export my MT archives into a new engine, or am I stuck with MT for the foreseeable future?

I am so damn confused- something clearly needs to change here, but I don’t want to lose my archives. Will upgrading to a new MT be the solution?

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  1. 1.

    SomeCallMeTim

    Get WordPress. Get WordPress. Get WordPress. All the Kool Kidz (CT, Henley, etc.) have done.

    Set up is trivial (on the order of 5 minutes), and I’m nearly positive that they have either scripts or plugins that allow you to import MT with a fair bit of ease.

    Your site design is another matter, to which I can’t speak. (It might end up looking attractive, for example.)

  4. 4.

    Tony Hagale

    FYI, I’ve made the jump from MT 2.x to WordPress, and then got so fed up with WP that I switched back to MT 3.x. WordPress is nice, in a quaint, open source sort of way. But it is far too buggy and unsupported for my tastes. Is there anything in particular you’re not liking about MT?

  5. 5.

    Tony Hagale

    FYI, I’ve made the jump from MT 2.x to WordPress, and then got so fed up with WP that I switched back to MT 3.x. WordPress is nice, in a quaint, open source sort of way. But it is far too buggy and unsupported for my tastes. Is there anything in particular you’re not liking about MT?

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    RW

    I second Tim.

    Use MT’s export engine and then import into WP after the 5 minute WP installation (actually, it took me four). Once that’s installed, I can give you links to umpteen different WP page designs that you can choose from that’ll make your page look how you wish.

    Oh, and there’s no such thing as “rebuild”. ’nuff said.

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    Kirk Spencer

    Most of the blog engines have import/export capabilities, so your archives should be safe. Provided, of course, that you’ve saved them — corrupt files aren’t warrantied by anyone AFAIK. Take your engine of preference – including MT3 – and look for the instructions as they’re usually pretty plain. FWIW, I too prefer WordPress, especially the most recent version (1.5.1.3), but recognize it’s not everyone’s preference.

    In reference to your (probable) problem, Jay Allen at Six Apart (the MT folk) says:

    “If you are experiencing intermittent “500 Server Errors” while using Movable Type and are using MySQL for your database, we are aware of the cause of the prblem: a nightly CPanel update of a buggy version of the DBI and DBD::MySQL drivers. See this post on the Professional Network Weblog for more details.

    The MT engineering team has been actively working with developer to help him rectify the problem. We apologize for any inconvenience and will keep you up to date on our progress as well as post here when the problem is solved.”

    I just realized I’d assumed you’ve contacted 6A(MT) about your problem. If not, that should be your next step – http://www.sixapart.com/support/ and follow the links and instructions. Hopefully they’ll have you stable quickly.

  9. 9.

    Tim F

    Scoop! We could have the same reasonable discourse as in the comments section, but in diaries. And you know you can trust us with the rate-comments feature.

  10. 10.

    Non-Fat Latte Liberal

    Hey John,
    If anyone says WP is too open-source-y I’d avoid it like the plague. Sorry but the support just isn’t there, for those who know how to run it, it’s way better, but if you don’t, it’s a long sttep learning curve. You can easily export you MT archives and FTP them to your own computer to be safe. Uploading them is also easy. You just create an ‘export’ folder in the one with all the MT stuff (docs, images etc) and click export. Download it to your hard drive to be safe, reinstall and create an ‘import’ folder (same place as you created the export folder) upload it your achive into it and hit import. If figures everything out.

    It may look a bit funny at first (like the dates may be wierd, that happened to me) but when you rebuild it fixes itself.

    Good luck!
    F

  11. 11.

    Jay

    Expression Engine rocks. I am not sure the import capabilities, but my guess is that they are there because MT users are a logical source of new EE customers. It costs $199 (with which you can have an unlimited number of blogs and users on a domain) but is more than worth it. (At least, that was the price when we bought it.)

    WP is good for a free product, but you “pay” for it with all the extra effort required to keep it from being inundated with spam. I’d use WP before I’d use MT.

  12. 12.

    Nancy

    I vote for scoop. If you have to manually copy and move archives I will help. I’m sure other loyal readers will too.

  13. 13.

    Russ

    I’d recommend sticking with MT, though I’m not sure I’d wait for version 3.2 just to get the new features — as with any release that adds major features and functionality, it’ll have its share of bugs.

    Upgrading from 2.6- to 3.1- is pretty easy, too, but as always, you’d want to backup your entries and the database before doing it.

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