Excellent! Just excellent.

Worked like a charm, even though my website's sql is huge (over 500mb).

I migrated both of my sites using this, also 3rd party components like jomcomment.

I did get a memorry issue problem when I hit the "migrate" to run, as my db size was huge.

I figured a way out, I am just sharing it here, so if other ppl run into that same problem they can read what I did below.

Those of you who get memory problem it is very important that you put "-1" in your memory_limit in php.ini, that is if you want to disable the memory limit , once you are done with the migration you can set the value back to 64MB or whatever your memory limit is.

You can change this via your whm or in root you can locate ur php.ini by typing: locate php.ini and then enter the path and edit the php.ini by typing nano php.ini and then edit it and set the directive of memory limit to -1.

Good luck!

I think it is a very good component. There are minor issues like the one I faced with mosimage. It seems like mtwmigrator 0.1.4 is converting only the mosimage tags from the intro text and not from the Main text. The other issue is with the alignment of images.

Other than that, I thought it worked pretty well.

Keep up the good work.

After making a terrible mistake with my own web site (installing something and blowing away the production site by mistake), I made a decision: the original site was in J!1.0, and this was a good opportunity to upgrade to J!1.5. My data was still intact, so I installed the mtwMigrator.

HUZZAH! What would have taken me DAYS to recreate by hand took minutes. There is still much fix-up work to be done, but content is there, as are sections, categories and menus.

You. Rock.

Thank you!!

I have been putting off migrating several sites due to Virtuemart but witht this tool it was a snap. Once the new site was cleaned out and VM installed. The actual migration took a whole 30sec!!! I have also used the Joomla migrate tool - put of coarse it took longer and left the VM data behind... Make sure you watch the video and read the instructions and this tool will be a real blessing!

Nicely done but I needed to run the migrator twice to get Virtuemart to migrate. My old Joomla 1.0.X site had an old 1.0 version of virtuemart. I needed to upgrade Virtuemart to 1.1 in the old Joomla 1.0.X site and then the Virtuemart migration worked perfectly! A great time saver. Thank you.

This seems like a great component, but I would like to add something that is not mentioned.

DONT import into a site that has been heavily modified, I just blew up my site completely.

2nd problem i found is the backup the migrator takes is of the DB being migrated not the DB that just got blown up, this has just set me back a weeks work as I have to now roll back 1 week.

Better documentation could have helped, apart from that, if its a fresh install, the migration seems to work great.

You have been warned!!!!!

Im giving full marks, this is one of the best component i used recently. Would be great if you support components like Ads Manager and Sobi2, now I will convert all my J 1.0 to J1.5. Thanks developer.

just downloaded and tried on one of my sites.
Installed Joomla 1.5.10, installed mtwmigrator.
Adapted the settings to connect to the old db and Go !
2 minutes later and it was running for 99% of the data. Just had to handcopy my downloadables (pdf,doc etc) to the right DocMan subdir and handcopy the images i had placed in ../images/stories from the old site to the new site.
Once that was done everything is 100%. And all in just 15 minutes.
Thanks a lot !! Now i can migrate all of the other 1.0.x sites with no problem.

I have created a whole new website on Joomla 1.5, have moved over from 1.0.12. The site was never upgraded due to size and level of custom work done.

After trying several tools, this helped me in minutes to transfer old CB users to new site.

Thank you for this solution!

After watching the recommended video, this was SO easy to use, and worked like a charm. Was quite fast too! Thanks MTW!!!

Very good component. You install it in 1.5 and point it to the 1.x database and tell it what you want to convert. Works like a charm. But a good review points out the weaknesses to.
1. You must have access to the 1.x database from your 1.5 installation. As some hosting providers block outside access to their database this is something to consider.
2. If partial data exists in the destination database the routine bails out. Prefferably it should offer the choises overwrite, append or bailout.

Bottomline I rate it as GOOD. Meaning Job well done.

I'm very satisfied about this component, that help me saving a lot of time with Joomla! 1.5 migration. Only one new feature request: user synchronization between old and the new website ?

Excellent component. I held off upgrading to 1.5 for quite a while due mainly to a lack of suitable forum bridge. Once that was available this component made the job a breeze and I cannot thank the developers enough.

It works just as everyone has stated here. But also, I would like to add one thing that maybe it's not too clear reading about the extension. You can migrate JUST whatever you want, you don't have to migrate everything!

For example, I had one of my websites with 165 users, and I'm right now doing a new one with joomla 1.5. So I just migrate the users within 1 minute.

It's a fantastic extension, I really recommend it to anyone!

I have used this for the first time tonight.
10/10 for doing what it says on the tin
01/10 for documentation or instructions

This would have taken less than a few minutes to do, however with me being a novice i was unsure what the msql info needed to be. I tried many ways and it was telling me it was done and ok, however i was getting no change. The problem was me and not the tool, i was entering my table prefix as jos not jos_

Hope this helps the next novice.

I thought it was about time I upgraded my site to 1.5 but I was terrified of migrating all my data. This tool worked like a charm and saved me HOURS of time. It literally takes minutes. Thanks!!!

This extension worked great for me. I didn't find any kind of meaningful documentation about how to use it, but thankfully it's pretty self-explanatory. Tell it how to connect to the old database, select what you want to import, and then go to another button to start the process. Very easy, very helpful!

mtwMigrator worked just as stated. It was so easy using this extension. The only issue I had problems with my 500 server error timeouts due to my large content data file. My work around was to migrate the jos_content file separately then it worked. If you have large menu files or content files I would suggest migrating them one at a time after the initial migration.

This component absolutely rocks ... I've just migrated 10 sites across to J1.5.4 and it was flawless.

It just works !

---- Caution ----
I'd suggest you don't follow their suggestion about the first step ... Install a new fresh Joomla 1.5 without any content sample.

What happens is that all the default modules are not installed

I install with sample data, log into the admin and remove all the content, menus, sections, categories and empty all the trash. In the modules/plugins sections remove all the non system modules/plugins.

Then install the migrator and migrate. It just works!

I find mtwMigrator easy to use and it does a very neat job of moving content and retaining menus. I like the concept and it saves a lot of time pulling data in directly from the 1.0.x site. My modules are missing however (except 4 menu ones) and the documentation is rather sparse.

Note: I could not install version 0.1.1 (or any other version come to that) until I changed my database collation to UTF8 from the default Fantastico collation, using the Phoca tool.