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I’ve got a client-site running on EE 2.4.0 with 300 members in different member groups and a couple of custom fields. I’m now redesigning and building a new site for the client, and I need to migrate all the members over. I’ve been searching and googling for hours without finding a good solution. I can’t believe I’m the first to want this, so I hope there’s an easy solution…

Hello atle,

Thank you for posting your question.

Please give AJW Export a try. You can export and then import your members.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help!

Cheers,

Hi Shane, thanks for the suggestion! I have already tried it, and it worked great. The only headache is the member groups, since they’re ID’s they need to match the group ID’s in the new site, which is a bit tricky. I think I’ll have to assign member groups manually…

Hi atle,

Sorry to hear about the headache, it’s one that is shared.

Is there anything else I can help with?

Cheers,

Hi Shane, admittedly, moving members and/or having lots of existing content doesn’t happen that often, but more and more. I’ve certainly gotten rid of my fear of the database these last few weeks! I used an SQL-query (tried both from the CP and PHPMyAdmin, no difference, really) to search-and-replace the group ID’s.

Another site I’m working on at the same time had 12.000 members in a csv. That was a little bit more tricky, because of the memory-limit. I figured the parse error came on file-sizes around 350-400 kb. So I split the import into around 2000 members each. Another headache with that one was using Zoo Visitor for member profiles and such, but with DataGrab and Zoo Visitor’s built in sync it worked in a way.

All my members are now living comfortably in their new homes, so consider this thread solved!

Glad Shane could offer a good suggestion here, atle! Let us know when we can help again.