[support] drupal 5 export nodes

[Marty Landman]

Can you write mysql queries and use phpmyadmin and a text editor? 
That might be all you need, and some time / patience.

At 08:34 PM 8/26/2011, Jim Ruby wrote:
>This is over my head. I can't write php that well and all I am after is
>title, body and file attachment link or file name.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
>Behalf Of Marty Landman
>Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 12:10 PM
>To: support at drupal.org; support at drupal.org
>Subject: Re: [support] drupal 5 export nodes
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>Jim,
>
>I had about 10,000 nodes of a variety of content types in D5 that I
>had to import to a D6 site with redefined content types. What I ended
>up doing was writing custom code in PHP to extract the data as TSV
>files, and then used node_import on the D6 side. It was still an
>involved and time consuming process but worked pretty well that way.
>Saved tons of time over manual data input for the kind of volume I
>had to deal with.
>
>hth,
>Marty
>
>At 12:51 PM 8/26/2011, Jim Ruby wrote:
> >Is there a way to export nodes and the attachment file names in drupal 5 in
> >to some sort of text file? I have to get the data out of drupal 5 and enter
> >it in to drupal 7 and there really is no way to do it but by hand since I
> >was using the audio module and in drupal 7 I am not using it.
> >
> >Thanks for any help, I have about 5 years of data here and it is going to
> >slow copying it in to a file then pasting it in to the new site.
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