[support] Importing ONLY nodes from D5 into D7 - Errors!!!

[Benj Fredrick]

yet another option:
"Direct Drupal 5 to Drupal 7 Migration in 24hrs" -
http://quicksketch.org/node/5739


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jessica Hannan - Halo Digital Design wrote:
> > I have a client that wanted to upgrade from D% to D7. Fortunately, they
> were ok with starting all over... but now that the website is ready, I need
> to move the nodes in.
> >
>
> Going from D5 to D7 steps:
>
> 1) Upgrade all modules in D5 to most current D5 version.
> 2) Disable but do not delete all D5 non-core modules
> 3) Upgrade to core Drupal-6.0
> 4) run update.php for Drupal-6
> 5) Upgrade to Drupal-6.25
> 6) run update.php for Drupal-6
> 7) Upgrade all modules to their D6 most recent versions
> 8) Enable the contrib modules to ready them for update
> 9) run update.php for Drupal-6 contrib modules.
> 10) Upgrade to core Drupal-7.12
> 11) Upgrade the contrib modules to their D7 most recent versions.
> 12) run update.php for Drupal-7 core and contrib modules.
>
> > I exported the nodes into a sql file, imported them into the new
> database and although they show up in the new database, when I go back to
> the new website, it's giving me  the following error.
> >
> > "PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column
> 'language' in 'where clause'...
> >
>
> These happen because the upgrade path is lost when upgrading to higher
> versions of core.
>
> > There is no column titled "language" in the nodes. I don't have a
> language or translation module loaded.
> >
> > I rolled the database back to get the website functional again, but I'd
> like to try to make this work as there are 207 nodes that I'd rather not
> add by hand!!
> >
>
> Yea, don't work on the live site before you have it working in a dev
> site.  This is a rather large undertaking and you want to make sure
> that the site works between update.php executions so that if something
> breaks you know which step broke it.
>
> Ping me off list if you need more help.
>
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> Earnie
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